Business View Magazine - Sept 2023

261 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 10, ISSUE 9 MONROE REGIONAL AI RPORT Situated three miles away from the mercantile district of downtown Monroe—a metro area of not quite a quarter of a million people, located three and a half hours northwest of Baton Rouge—Monroe Regional Airport is a hub of much activity, especially as America’s economy recovers from COVID, and the work of airports and other such commercial activities returns to normal. We recently spoke with Charles Butcher, the airport’s director, and he told us more about it, giving us a bird’s eye view of this important economic asset in northern Louisiana. There are two runways, says Butcher: primary and secondary. The airport features general- aviation (or GA)-based service. The FBO (or fixed-based operator) is Avflight Monroe. American and Delta Airlines provide the airport with commercial passenger service, as Butcher points out, with the former serving the massive Dallas-Fort Worth Airport (one of the biggest such Award-winning workforce training. Unrivaled global transport infrastructure. Explore the advantages at OpportunityLouisiana.gov.