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Article: Airport must build on success to continueit

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The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL
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December 24, 2006
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Central Illinois Regional Airport is setting a good course for growth. Travel numbers are back to pre-9/11 numbers. The airport has already surpassed the 500,000-passenger mark for the year - an all- time high. And AirTran Airways is going strong as it celebrates its 10th anniversary at the Bloomington-Normal airport.

To live up to its full potential, however, the airport needs to land westbound air service.

Airport and Twin City officials understand that.

They have been working for such service ever since Frontier Airlines ended its flights between Bloomington and Denver in 2001.

Besides Denver, airport officials have been looking at Phoenix and Salt Lake City as possible western ...

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