Business View Magazine | February 2020

107 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE FEBRUARY 2020 THE ROGUE VALLEY INTERNAT IONAL -MEDFORD A I RPORT Plan for the Airport. We’re actually working off of a 20-year Master Plan that gets updated every ten years, so you’re constantly building upon it since it’s a working document. It’s been ten years since we did a Master Plan, so we’re revising it.” Regarding any competition from nearby facilities, Brienza says that while there are some smaller GA airports in the vicinity, Rogue Valley does not actively compete with them. “They have certain amenities or attributes that general aviation pilots like,” he notes. “If you’re a small GA airport, there could be an attraction to operating at an airport with no fence around it, or one that you can drive your car right onto the airport, or one that isn’t so regulated or doesn’t have towered operations. That appeals to a small population of general aviation pilots. We appeal to people that like a little bit of security; we have a police force here; we have towered operations; we have fencing around the Airport; we have an on-site fire department that the smaller GA airports don’t have. So, we appeal to customers