Business View Magazine | October 2020

173 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE OCTOBER 2020 From runways to taxiways, we lead the field Visit rsandh.com/aviation to learn about our versatile expertise. VALLEY INTERNAT IONAL A I RPORT easily from the person in front of you, but the person aside of you on that snaky line – it’s very difficult to position yourself six feet apart from them. So, we added these barriers in checkpoint lines, which were well-received by all our carriers, as well. And we continued on. We went to all our air handler units and equipped them with UV light that kills bacteria and virus. So, anything that goes into our system goes out the other end much cleaner because of the UV lights.” It’s clear by the numbers that Esterly reports that Valley International went quickly from a bustling air hub to a Texas ghost town. “In January, February, and the beginning of March, we were running 12-15 percent up a month. When COVID hit us at the end of March, we saw numbers drop drastically as the local city fathers and the county judge put in place the stay-at-home orders, and everything shut down at that point. So, we were seeing as high as 92-93 percent less passengers in April than we saw the year before.