Business View Magazine | March 2020

198 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE MARCH 2020 800.242.6352 www.protecfire.com 2129 South Onedia Street Green Bay, WI 54304 PERSONNEL PREPARATION PERFORMANCE • Aircraft Rescue Firefighting (ARFF) • Emergency Medical Services • Airport Operations • Training needs Let us put our industry leading 50 years of airport experience to work for you - reducing your overhead while improving your airport’s safety. space for about three years, now. We have about 90 hangars that we own, and there’s a private owner here, as well.” Three organizations at the Airport offer services for general aviation users: Duncan Aviation is the Airport’s sole, full-service FBO, and is fully-equipped to handle both traditional FBO services such as aircraft fueling, aircraft maintenance, and other ground services, along with providing weather equipment and crew rest areas for pilots, passenger services such as rental and courtesy cars, restrooms, vending options, and a lobby waiting area. Kalamazoo Aircraft is also located on the Airport, providing aircraft maintenance services and repairs for single and light-twin general aviation aircraft. A third organization offering FBO services at the Airport is the Kalamazoo Pilots Association, which operates a self-serve fueling pump in its hangar. Woodin says that on the commercial side, Kalamazoo/Battle Creek competes with airports at Grand Rapids, Detroit, and Chicago. “We lose a bit of traffic to them, because a lot of people have the perception that we’re always going to be more expensive, and sometimes we are. But on our website, we have a cost calculator; you can plug in fares for us, Grand Rapids, Detroit, and Chicago, and get a true cost comparison of flying out of each one of those, so you can make a decision about which airport is best for you. We are a smaller airport, which makes it easier to make your way through the terminal; we generally have pretty short waiting lines at the TSA checkpoint and some friendly staff to help people. We have a small-town feel, but we can get you to anywhere in the world, through Delta, American, and United, through their connections. Another big advantage for us: driving an hour into Grand Rapids or two and a half hours to Detroit or Chicago in January or February can be really iffy. So, we have that going for us, here.” “On the GA side, we have three runways, so when the smaller aircraft are landing, they do have a choice,” Woodin adds. “We have really good