Business View Magazine l January 2023

269 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 9, ISSUE 12 of overall traffic than pre-pandemic. The growth has been in all areas, charter, recreational and corporate. However, Lewis has seen a possible reversal of this due to current fuel prices. “The fuel pricing is astronomical compared to what it was last year and so that has slowed down some of the traffic. We have done everything we can to drop our prices, negotiate bulk sales, and LUMBERTON REGIONAL AI RPORT keep this increase fair. At one point we were only making 11 cents profit on every gallon, which doesn’t add up to a whole lot,” Lewis relays. “Our fuel supplier is Campbell Oil and they are a really good partner. If I need anything they get it here quickly, if we were to have extra traffic coming in and it uses up our fuel because with the jets, depending on what comes in,