Business View Magazine - Dec 2023

wanting to go for: to attract more business to the airport.” For a moment, Fornwalt looks into his metaphorical crystal ball to make a prognostication or two about the future. Five years hence, as he points out, the airport will then be in a much better position. The new terminal parking lot will be completed. Possibly another hub could be added. Fornwalt would like to see one to Houston and to increase the passenger load as well. “I need to talk to SkyWest about that,” he adds, “and then adding more T-hangars and just increasing our general aviation also.” Fornwalt extols SkyWest as amongst a host of good partners with whom the Liberal Mid-America Airport enjoys a good and positive relationship. “We are working on keeping SkyWest here,” as he points out. “We’re trying to go out for a re-bid with the Department of Transportation to try to keep SkyWest here, because we really do like them, but we do have to go out for that rebid. We haven’t really heard of anybody else that wants to re-bid. 367 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 10, ISSUE 12 L I BERAL MID-AMERICA REGIONAL AI RPORT