to encourage its global reach while ensuring a seamless, friendly, and welcoming passenger experience, Indianapolis Executive Airport is also an airport that is well-positioned to set itself apart from its aviation competitors. Samuel Sachs, Indianapolis Executive Airport Director, describes the airport as “a general aviation airport, specifically a national level general aviation airport which is very busy operationally.” “We definitely have a large focus on business and corporate aviation which is our niche. We do somewhere around 115 operations a day at the airport, 30 of those are our business aviation operations.” Sachs points out that Indianapolis Executive Airport also carries out a good amount of piston operations, flight school training, and private general aviation business. The key however to the airport’s success over the last few years is its business aviation readiness and to soon have the capacity to become a full-scale international arrivals and departure airport. LANDING BUSINESS GROWTH IN THE REGION “Business aviation has been growing fast here and right now we are number two in the state of Indiana in that category,” Sachs relays. Drawing the link between the airport’s expertise in catering to business travelers and the region’s emerging status as a business destination, Sach points out that the business traffic landing at the busy airport is critical to the region’s economic growth. “We are owned and operated by Hamilton County. The county sees the airport as an economic engine and economic driver for the region.” “So much of our traffic is also transient traffic; businesses coming in from out of state that are doing business in the Indianapolis region that utilize our airport as a launching ground for doing their business. 27 AVIATION VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 05, ISSUE 02 INDIANAPOLIS EXECUTIVE AIRPORT
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