Tuesday, April 20, 1999
Comair to break ground on corporate building
More new flights to be announced
BY PATRICK CROWLEY
The Cincinnati Enquirer
HEBRON — Comair Inc. will announce new flights and break ground on its $25 million airport corporate headquarters Wednesday during a ceremony Kentucky Gov. Paul Patton is scheduled to attend.
Meghan Glynn, Comair's director of communications, would not say Monday what cities will be served by the new flights.
Just last week, Comair, which is based at the airport, added 12 flights, including service for the first time to Houston and the Sarasota/Bradenton airport on Florida's west coast.
Comair is adding regional jets to its fleet at the rate of one a month and has 290 flights daily from the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport to 65 cities.
Comair is also working on two other construction and expansion projects:
• A $15 million expansion of its midfield concourse that will double its size.
• Construction of a 38,000-square-foot hangar to be leased for private planes, known as a fixed-based operations hangar. It will be built in conjunction with and adjacent to a $1.3 million corporate jet hangar for Ashland Inc.
Ashland moved its headquarters to Covington last year and will operate four jets out of the hangar, company executives told the Kenton County Airport Board on Monday night.
Work will begin next month and be completed in about a year.
Comair is building its headquarters across from its existing offices. The new building will be on the site of the old control tower, torn down earlier this month.
Mr. Patton will be at the airport Wednesday to announce that a British manufacturer will build a $54 million, 135-employee factory in Walton in Boone County, sources have told The Enquirer.
The sources have not identified the company, but said one of the main reasons it is moving to Northern Kentucky is the nonstop air service Delta Air Lines offers between here and London.
In other airport news, the Kenton County Airport Board should find out today whether the Kentucky Job Service will open an office at the airport.
Airport board member Arlyn Easton, president of Meyer Tool Inc., said the airport typically has 400 to 500 job openings at any given time. The jobs are listed at Kentucky Job Service offices in Florence and Covington, but an airport site would make it easier for companies to list their jobs.
“I'm not sure all the companies out here know that service exists,” Mr. Easton said. “This office could make it easier to fill some of those jobs and help people find jobs as well.”
If the state agrees to open the office, it will be up and running in about a month, Mr. Easton said.
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