Business View Magazine | March 2019

69 in Columbus. From that point on, our airport progressed.” Today, there are 150 home-based GA aircraft at Columbus, and approximately 50,000 commer- cial enplanements a year. Clark says that the Airport is attempting to increase that number by initiating non-stop, commercial service between Columbus and Charlotte, North Caro- lina. To that end, the Airport Commission has created an Air Service Recruitment Plan under which the Airport and its community partners would share in raising a total of $1.7 million in risk mitigation funding in order to help attract a new carrier, which would provide service be- tween Columbus and Charlotte. It has already been awarded a federal Department of Trans- portation Air Service Grant of $750,000 to be used for that purpose. “We’ve worked really hard on the Air Service Recruitment plan,” says Clark, “getting our community involved and making sure that we are communicating to the airlines the demand, the need, and the travel usage here in our community, so we can show them what will be successful and bring them here.” Clark adds that the Airport is also attempting AT A GLANCE THE COLUMBUS AIRPORT WHAT: A commercial and general aviation airport WHERE: Three miles northeast of Columbus, a city in Muscogee County, Georgia WEBSITE: www.flycolumbusga.com Inspire new thinking in a creative environment designed to motivate your attendees. We have over 4,800 hotel rooms and half-a-million square feet of meeting space. Plus, we’ve curated an amazing collection of after-hours adventures to make your event an all out success. BREAK OUT Turn Ordinary Meetings Into Extraordinary Experiences MeetColumbusGA.com CV02-45775-business view quarter pg-final.pdf 1 2/18/19 11:06 A