Business View Magazine | November 2020

153 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE NOVEMBER 2020 THE WI LMINGTON INTERNAT IONAL A I RPORT and tourism industries to more than 390 destinations, worldwide. Charter airlines include Sun Country and Swift Air; cargo airlines include DHL, FedEx, and UPS. The Airport also has over 100 home-based GA aircraft, a mixture of private recreational planes and corporate jets. Julie Wilsey, ILM’s Airport Director, reports that in 2019 the Airport achieved a milestone by breaking the one million passenger mark. “We had great momentum going into early 2020; we were up an additional seven percent through the end of February,” she shares. “We were riding pretty well, and we were looking for a fourth commercial airline and growing our air service. In fact, we also had a non-stop to Boston on American Airlines that was scheduled to start in the summer. Then, in March the pandemic hit, and, at that point, we had to regroup and, like most airports and most organizations, make some changes to our goals that we had set for 2020.”