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Sonoma County airport completes $4 million passenger tent project
Oct 31, 2020
The expanded passenger gate area at Charles M. Schulz-Sonoma County Airport is now complete following wildfire-related delays, setting up the regional air hub’s grander overhaul of its terminal with construction slated to start early next month.
The $4 million tent project was finished last week, moving a widened security checkpoint closer to the gates, increasing the size of the seating area for outbound passengers and establishing permanent bathrooms beyond the terminal.
The expansion project, which nearly doubles the size of the gate waiting area, originally was scheduled to be finished in August, but fell victim to effects from the Walbridge and Glass fires, which pulled staff and resources away from the airport, Sonoma County Airport Manager Jon Stout said.
For the first time, two security lanes will be available at the airport, permitting a separate TSA PreCheck and Global Entry option. Just one lane will operate until passenger numbers increase to prepandemic travel levels, when the local airstrip was consistently setting month-over-month and year-over-year records.
“The space does set us up for when we return to that level of activity to have both lanes and a much larger queuing space, so it will definitely be a great benefit,” Stout said.
Monthly passenger counts have been on the rise since public health emergency stay-at-home orders first took effect in March due to the coronavirus pandemic, though remain a fraction of where they were last year. Totals increased by 45% from August to September to nearly 17,200 passengers, but were still down 68% compared to this time last year.
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