San Luis County Regional Airport (KSBP) Looking For Businesses To Support Denver Route

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. — The San Luis Obispo Airport is on the verge of expanding its terminal and adding a new route to Denver.

The airport’s administration says it is working to get support from the business community to pull it off.

The airport manager says he met with several business travelers who he hopes will help fund a new flight to Denver and says pledges have already begun rolling in.

Each airport meeting yesterday had about 40-50 business travelers who expressed high levels of interest in the new route to Denver.

The airport already has a half million dollar grant from the federal government but is asking local businesses to help raise another million dollars to fund the new flight.

The airport has been talking to airline carriers such as United, Frontier and Sky West.

“We do have a large connective market to Denver. We have a number of co-located businesses in this community that want to go to Denver,” says San Luis Obispo Airport Manager Richard Howell. “On the other side of it, people are going East and the nice thing about a Denver connection is we would have access to 85 cities, 25 of which we do not have one-stop access to right now.”

The airport manager says if an airline added just one flight with 70 seats that would generate roughly $4.5 million dollars to the county.

The airport is also in its third phase of designing its new terminal which it hopes the San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors will approve on Tuesday.

The federal government has given the airport an $18 million dollar grant for this terminal which it wants the airport to spend by the end of the year.

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