Aviation View | Volume 2, Issue 1

71 AVIATION VIEW VOLUME 2, ISSUE 1 TYLER POUNDS REGIONAL A I RPORT best to promote Tyler Pounds Regional. “I don’t know what the future will bring,” Thompson notes, “but I am certainly interested in diversifying our revenue streams and bringing more business to the airport, whether it is aeronautical or non-aeronautical. There is a lot of accessible real estate around us and there are things that might work here, like a hotel. A cargo facility or distribution centre would certainly be welcome, and perhaps a good choice, given our proximity to Dallas and Shreveport but without the congestion and complexity. Truthfully, the sky is the limit, there are really no barriers to our growth. We have got more runway than our current capacity even requires. And when I look at our 20-year forecast, we have plenty of pavement to support the volume of traffic that we could hope for in our wildest dreams. And we have plenty of surrounding land and nothing encroaching on the airport.”