Business View Magazine | Volume 8, Issue 10

238 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 8, ISSUE 10 www.TailwindConcessions.com info@tailwindconcessions.com | 1.866.578.7355 Let us design a concession program for your airport! REDEFINING THE REGIONAL AIRPORT CONCESSION EXPERIENCE At Tailwind we care as much about your airport operations as we do our concession business Corpus Christi is a strategic energy hub with a deep-water global access port and shovel- ready sites in air quality ozone attainment, fueling $53 billion of private investment in chemical, mid-stream, steel processing and metal fabrication, and aviation projects since 2010 while locals enjoy a low cost of living and a world-famous coastal lifestyle. ccredc.com standard of achievement in terms of Cleanliness and Readiness. GBAC is a worldwide cleaning industry association and has very stringent protocols for cleaning, disinfection, and infectious disease prevention. The airport worked with other local facilities such as the American Bank Center, Art Museum of South Texas, USS Lexington Museum on the Bay, and several bars and restaurants. As the cleaning industry’s only outbreak prevention, response, and recovery accreditation, GBAC STAR helps organizations establish protocols and procedures, offers expert-led training, and assesses a facility’s readiness for bio risk situations. “We are also actively pursuing our Blue Lightning accreditation through the U.S. Department of Transportation and the Department of Homeland security,” Smith reports. “Blue Lightning is an initiative by those two agencies to certify airports and train airport personnel on identifying and combating human trafficking.” “One of the initiatives that I have been working on since I got here has to do with making us the number one small airport,” says Smith. “We joined Airport Council International that has an air service quality survey. This will be our first year participating as an airport and my goal is to hold the number one rating for an airport our size. This is a competition with airports all around the world so if we can get the “Best Small Airport in the World” that would be my dream. I also really think we need to focus on getting a gas station and hotel out here on the property.” “I’m responsible for the Capital Improvement Plan here at the airport,” Miller concludes, “so over the next three years, I really see us either