commercial service.We issued a request for proposals to four of the most likely air service providers in our region to provide jet service for our community. SkyWest was the only airline to respond to this request. We negotiated a contract to begin service in May of this year. “We hustled and got TSA in here, and they hired their people and brought in their equipment, and we put the whole thing together,” he adds. Four Corners now has one daily flight to Denver. “We were dealing with SkyWest, and the most receptive carrier was United, which has a hub in Denver. Denver is the largest hub of the four hubs we have access to at Four Corners. It is also the third largest hub in the United States, and United has 200 non-stop connections and 14 different foreign destinations out of Denver,” Lewis relays. “We looked at it and thought that this would give us the opportunity to have one-stop service to Frankfurt, one-stop service to London, and one-stop service to 200 cities in the United States.” ECONOMIC AND TOURIST POTENTIAL IS GROWING Four Corners is an area that has always held a special place for some and is viewed as a tourist attraction in its own right. “We have a lot of areas around here where there are fossils, and they have found some dinosaur remains 183 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 12, ISSUE 08 FOUR CORNERS REGIONAL AIRPORT
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