6.
City Council Work Session (Amended)
- Meeting Date:
- 12/10/2019
- From:
- Barney Helmick, Airport Director
- Department:
- Economic Vitality
Co-Submitter:
TITLE:
Flagstaff Airport Parking Update
DESIRED OUTCOME:
To inform the Council about our temporary parking solution, winter snow parking, and permanent parking program.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
The Flagstaff Airport has increased its service with the addition of a second airline, United Airlines. United began service March 31, 2019, and established two daily flights to Denver International Airport. Our current airline carrier, American Airlines, already serves Phoenix and added additional routes to Dallas Fort Worth with two flights per day, and a seasonal Saturday flight to Los Angeles.
With two airlines and additional routes, the airport has been dealing with several new impacts. We were able to install a lavatory dump station, restrooms in the holding area to help with getting flying patrons through TSA sooner, the relocation of the baggage machine, airline office space updates, and platform striping.
The project we continue to work on is our parking lot expansion. With the new routes, we went from 177 daily passengers to 407 on average.
With two airlines and additional routes, the airport has been dealing with several new impacts. We were able to install a lavatory dump station, restrooms in the holding area to help with getting flying patrons through TSA sooner, the relocation of the baggage machine, airline office space updates, and platform striping.
The project we continue to work on is our parking lot expansion. With the new routes, we went from 177 daily passengers to 407 on average.
INFORMATION:
City staff will be sharing how our task force, which consisted of the city manager's office, community development, economic vitality, and our public works divisions, worked together to create a temporary parking solution at the airport. This solution involved getting our rental car tenants more space as well as relocating our airport employees to a temporary lot. All leading to our original parking lot being freed up for our flying public.
We will also share how we are addressing winter parking so staff can plow the lot efficiently, as well as our progress to create a permanent parking program.
With the addition of the second airline and routes, our airport has experienced 102,184 enplanements, which is currently a 70% YTD increase (January 2019 - October 2019). Total patrons flying in and out of the airport have reached 205,756, which is a record.
It's vital for the City to offer an airport program that maintains its terminal infrastructure inside and out. We look forward to finalizing our parking program in the near future and establishing a paid parking system which will be coming before the Council at a later date.