Business View Magazine | January 2020

145 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE JANUARY 2020 FOUR CORNERS REGIONAL A I RPORT own is on a mesa – a flat-top mountain,” Lewis explains. “Anywhere off of that mesa is pretty steep downhill. So, we’re looking at purchasing some property on the west side of the Airport in order to give us another access to the top of the mesa. The problem is that the runway structure runs east/west across the mesa to the full extent of the flat property up here. So, currently, all of the activity is on the south side of the runway structure. Therefore, to make the northern part of the Airport available for commercial and aviation development, we have to have access to it. We are looking at purchasing some property on the west side of the mesa in order to facilitate another entrance onto the flat ground up here.” “Farmington and the Four Corners Regional Airport have enjoyed a long history of continuous air service since 1947 when Monarch airlines first offered flights to Albuquerque and Denver,” says Lewis, in conclusion. “Although we lost commercial air service at the end of