Local Airport Executives Hope to See Profitability Start to Climb
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Airports and controversy seem to run together in Illinois, from the battle for expansion of O’Hare International Airport to Mayor Richard Daley’s after-midnight raid that closed Meigs Field, to the backlash against building runways on farm fields in Peotone and to the political battles that have circled DuPage Airport.
On a recent visit to the Chicago region, airport business sat with officials at Landmark Aviation (formerly DB Aviation) at the Waukegan Regional Airport, and airport managers at both the Chicago Executive and DuPage airports to get a sense of the challenges of operating in the current economic environment, and to see how business aviation is expected to fare here in the short term.
In the city of West Chicago lies the largest undeveloped land parcel in DuPage County known as The DuPage National Technology Park.
Together with the West Chicago Fire Protection District, DuPage Airport Air Traffic Control Tower, and three other mutual aid companies, a water supply drill will take place on Monday, November 2nd, Tuesday, November 3rd and Wednesday, November 4th to practice supplying water to the Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting vehicles, Rescue 822 and 823.
The fire station at DuPage Airport won’t be totally abandoned when West Chicago firefighters move into new digs at the end of the year.