Business View Magazine | Volume 8, Issue 9

169 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 8, ISSUE 9 KETCHI KAN INTERNAT IONAL A I RPORT then, but it is still dated and undersized for the current amount of traffic. The building has recently had a fiber optic update as well as a new wood pellet heating system through a grant from the State of Alaska. A terminal area plan and financial feasibility study are now being completed with an architectural group. Stage one of those projects would see an expansion of 18,000 square feet for $23 million dollars. This would be to expand the first-floor terminal area, expand TSA screening abilities, add more air taxi use areas, as well as construct a second jetway. “We currently have one jetway and we can have as many as three jets on the ground at a time,” says Peura, “so two of them have to deal with a portable ladder system and to be honest, it rains a lot here on the edge of a rainforest, and that just makes it inconvenient.” In terms of other capital improvements, the runways were redone within the last five or six years, which also saw