Business View Magazine | May 2019

110 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE MAY 2019 years, five commercial airlines provided passenger service at Redding, and four are now gone. Hughes Airwest flew Douglas DC-9-10s and McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30s to San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, and Seattle; Frontier’s Boeing 737-200s flew to Denver via Sacramento; Pacific Express BAC One-Elevens flew nonstop to San Francisco and on to Los Angeles, and also to Portland; American Eagle turboprops operating for American Airlines flew nonstop to San Jose, San Francisco, Eureka/ Arcata, and Klamath Falls. United Airlines, which came to Redding in 1983, still flies non-stop and direct to San Francisco, with four flights a day on Bombardier CRJ 200s. This March, United will also begin adding service to Los Angeles. Regarding Redding’s GA community, Garrett reports that between the Municipal Airport and Benton Airpark, “there are about 227 hangars - single- occupancy hangars such as T-hangars or Port- A-Ports - and most of them are full,” he reports. “There are 105 at Benton, with the balance at Redding. Right now, out of roughly 110-120 hangars here, I probably have 12 that are vacant.” Unlike most GA airports Redding does not have a waiting list, and Garrett believes that is due to some prolonged maintenance activity. “We had a $7.5 million pavement project in the vicinity of the T-hangars, and we replaced approximately 13 acres of very old pavement,” he says. “So, I believe that in the next 12 to 24 months, we’ll be completely full.”