The Manhattan Regional Airport is in the midst of a $15.8 million expansion, building on the 2009 decision of American Eagle to provide regional jet service to Dallas.
“We started adding flights; now we have five flights a day, two to Dallas, three to Chicago, 65,000 deployments,” said Jesse Romo, airport director. “Once those flights took off, it really demonstrated the lack of capacity for current activity, as well as future activity at the airport with the old 12,500-square-foot facility.”