The Aspen-Pitkin County Airport may take a more proactive role to ensure it maintains service by more than one commercial air carrier.
Jim Elwood, director of aviation, has proposed the airport undertake a Commercial Air Service Development Strategic Plan to better position itself to maintain competitive commercial service in a volatile market marked by airline mergers and circumstances that led two of four airlines serving Aspen to pull out since 2008.
At present, the local airport is served by two commercial carriers, United and Frontier, and Frontier’s ongoing service hinges on the continued availability of six aircraft, he noted in a memo to county commissioners.
Commissioners are scheduled to take up the proposed plan and associated costs, totaling $57,500, at their work session Tuesday.
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