Business View Magazine | September 2019

114 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 2019 yet, but as we go through this now with the FAA, it’s a very different story. We now are eligible for this grant, and we’ve gotten past ‘No, you don’t qualify.’ They’re asking a lot more questions; they’re digging deeper. Our FAA Airport District office is going to bat for us at headquarters in Washington. I won’t speculate on whether we’ll get it or not, but, at least, this time, we can’t be summarily dismissed. I say all of that because our main project request with the map is our terminal.” Mayor of the City of Roswell, and Chairman of the Airport Advisory Commission, Dennis Kintigh, elaborates: “That was the integral part of our application for this map grant – that we would start the process of expanding the terminal, because one of the things we’re doing, right now, is also applying for a Small Community Air Service Development Program grant that would be part of an effort to get service from Roswell to Denver. This would be via a different airline, in all likelihood, United. We’ve not had official conversations with them, but we’re starting back- door discussions. This grant would help us with pictured Air Center Director, Scott Stark