The Yeager Airport Board is
considering allocating more of its revenue from airport parking to the
airport’s general budget next fiscal year in order to hold the price down for
airlines that use Yeager.
The proposal would take the revenue
contribution from parking from 20 percent to 25 percent. Airport Manager Rick
Atkinson says that will make a difference.
“It will be about 250-thousand
dollars more a year from the parking operations by increasing that by five
percent,” Atkinson said.
Yeager went to more automated pay
lanes at the airport’s parking garage recently. Atkinson says 80 percent of
those parking there are using those automated lanes. He said four people who
used to work parking recently retired and Yeager has not filled those
positions.
“You don’t have to have health
insurance on a credit card reader machine. You don’t have to pay them a salary.
So it cut down on our costs,” he said.
Atkinson said attracting and
keeping airlines is a very competitive business so it’s important to take
revenue from other sources to keep those rates down.
