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Dayton Airport details new business plan; Rail line hub, expanded restaurant offerings, new parking garage and tenant space aim to create jobs.
Posted: January 9th, 2009



DAYTON - The Dayton International Airport has a new business plan to outline its goals for the next two to seven years, including making more passenger and rental-car parking available and launching a revamped Web site with a booking facility for online access to flights.

The city-owned airport has previously announced plans to earmark about 400 acres of its 4,500-acre property for lease to commercial tenants, in order to increase the airport's nonairline revenue and help create jobs for the region. The airport's revamped Web site, to be launched within the next month or two, would support those goals by providing information about economic development opportunities for companies there, including three-dimensional views of land parcels available for development, said Iftikhar Ahmad, Dayton's aviation director.

It is the first comprehensive, longterm business plan the airport has compiled with specific goals, Ahmad said in an interview Tuesday, Jan. 6. It was fashioned during the past two years in consultation with neighboring communities, business leaders, colleges and community organizations, which are to receive copies of the plan, Ahmad said.

The goals include new and previously announced plans, which Ahmad said have been driven in some cases by passenger suggestions in surveys. Among the plans are:

* Connecting Dayton International Airport to an existing rail line in Vandalia to make it an intermodal hub that could transfer cargo between airplanes, trucks and trains.

* Building or expanding restaurants and coffee retailers in concourses and the terminal building's lobby, with work to begin this spring.

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