Tuesday, September 21, 1999
Airport to build garage with 1,550 spaces
BY PATRICK CROWLEY
The Cincinnati Enquirer
HEBRON — The tight parking situation at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport should be eased with construction of an $18 million multideck parking garage.
The Kenton County Airport Board voted unanimously Monday night to build the 1,550-space garage on a surface parking lot just east of an existing garage that serves Delta Air Lines Terminal 3.
The design work will begin Oct. 1, with construction to start in April and be completed in late summer of 2001, said William Martin, the airport's director of planning and development.
Mr. Martin has said the Delta garage is often full and that additional parking spaces are needed near the airport's busy terminal, which serves Delta and Comair Inc.
Those airlines operate hubs and are the airport's dominant carriers, transporting more than 90 percent of the passengers at the airport.
Mr. Martin said more parking will be needed soon.
The airport's 20-year master plan predicts that by 2007 about 20,000 spaces will be needed. There are about 13,000 spaces now.
Mr. Martin said that if the airport continues to grow, even more spaces will be needed than the 20,000 in the master plan. But that number has not been determined.
The total number of passengers who boarded planes during August reached 1,001,679, an increase of 3.6 percent over August 1998.
Through August of this year, the passenger counts have increased 4.6 percent to 7,351,859 over the same period last year.
Delta handled the most passengers in August with 643,553, followed by Comair with 283,746. Among the others were United Airlines (10,905), Northwest (10,797), Sabena (10,147), TWA (8,204), Continental Express (5,704), Simmons (4,576), Vanguard (4,126) and American (3,862).
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