I just got back from visiting a subject property in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Over 10+ hours, I drove a total of 600+ miles to go from FRG’s northeast Ohio office to the subject and back to our office.
If I would have flown, I could have left after breakfast and would have been back at the office in time for a lunch meeting. It would have cost me about $285 more to rent a Cessna 172 and fly myself roundtrip to Grand Rapids. For me, flying – just makes good business sense.
There are 5,300 general aviation airports in the United States with 550 servicing commercial airline travel. In Ohio, there are 104 public-owned, public use airports. In northeast Ohio, Burke Lakefront airport is the country’s first downtown and first municipally owned and operated airport. And even with dwindling air traffic it is still amongst the busiest airports in Ohio due to executive travel, professional sports team travel and flight school use.