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PB: Well, that’s an interesting question. This airport opened three years after the deregulation of the airlines in 1978. Before that, the Civil Aeronautics Board assigned the routes and set the prices. The legacy carriers, like Delta which merged with Northwest, or United that merged with Continental, move traffic to a hub airport, like Delta’s hub is in Atlanta. Their model is to fly everything, even international, through Atlanta. These airlines often managed their profitability through bankruptcy. So if you were a hub and an airline like Eastern declared bankruptcy, you were at risk. We’re known as an ‘origin and destination’ airport; people don’t come here to make connections. Because we’re a destination, when carriers went bankrupt, we could supplement their traffic with other carriers; we’ve been very resilient.
PB: It enables us to look out for the best interest of the community. We also have an asset many airports don’t have – we have land we can use to attract businesses; for instance, United does rehabilitation of large aircraft at the airport, and there are other development opportunities.
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Also, we are looking at several studies to link SunRail to the airport because of its potential, if for nothing else, our employees.  Seven percent of our employees use public transportation now. Since we have some 18,000 people working here any given day, and then add to that the Medical City and the Veterans Hospital, you have a lot of people that need to get around. We have worked closely with the Expressway Authority and with LYNX to address these issues. Even if you have an airport, if you can’t get people to and from the airport you’re missing the target.
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PB: Twenty to 25 years; we actually got approval from the airlines to move forward in 1997, because we reached a certain passenger threshold. These projects are incredibly capital intensive, so you can’t operate under a “if you build it, they will come” idea. Since we don’t get local tax dollars, but generate our revenue off of user fees, those revenue streams have to be in place.
PB: Under FAA policy, commercial airports have to be self-sustaining. We don’t get revenue from local taxes, though we do get certain federal grants from the “Ticket Tax” from the Airport Improvement Program (AIP). For fiscal year 2013, we had an operating budget of $445,882,000, of which 70 percent comes from non-airline sources.
PB: Airlines pay about 30 percent of our revenue; our three top revenue generators were #1 Enterprise Rent A Car, #2 Avis-Budget and the third is Southwest Airlines. We’re the largest rental car market in the country. To some degree we subsidize the airlines; before I came, OIA started moving the dial from 50-50 with airline revenue to now 30 percent.
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People ask, ‘Why are you concentrating on 10 percent of your business?’ It is the most impactful, from an economic standpoint, and it has the most growth potential. If you don’t capture it, it will go