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January 12, 2007

Growing pains at Bellingham airport

  • Short-term fixes are planned but the port will do a market analysis to estimate how much expansion is needed to handle future growth.
    • By JOHN STARK
    The Bellingham Herald

    BELLINGHAM — Bellingham International Airport will spend 2007 trying to catch up to the growth in airline traffic that has already occurred, while planning for growth to come.

    The commercial flights out of Bellingham on Horizon Airlines, Allegiant Air and Delta Connection have a capacity of roughly 16,000 departing passengers per month, and 14,000 of those seats have been full, said Art Choat, Port of Bellingham aviation director. That's more than 87 percent.


     
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