![]() ![]() “First, we just need more space,” he said, adding this means for both passengers and larger jets. He described the two passenger concourses built circa 1980. But as the region continues to change, airport infrastructure needs to keep up. “This airport has to get a little bigger,” he said, “to meet the needs of not only today’s generation, but the next generation.”Ĭurrently, RNO has three runways, a dozen passenger airlines and more than 20 nonstop destinations. It’s the highest January total since 2008, Griffin said. He pointed to January passenger numbers that show 343,927 people arrived to or departed from RNO last month. “We have some really unique, inherent things,” he said.īut growth is already here, he insisted. ![]() He emphasized Northern Nevada is known for outdoor spaces like Lake Tahoe as well as indoor spaces such as gaming and lodging establishments. Talking to the Appeal, he laid out what he sees as the fundamentals of Northern Nevada’s growth: more companies moving in, spurred by Tesla and other tech companies, more jobs, more housing and more travel for both residents and businesses. Griffin, who started in Reno in 2020 after years of executive experience in Portland, was in Carson City for a community event co-organized by the Carson City Chamber of Commerce. “We watch all the growth, and our job is to position ourselves to accommodate everyone’s needs for air travel,” Daren Griffin, CEO and president of the Reno-Tahoe Airport Authority, said in an interview with the Appeal on Feb. The top executive of the Reno-Tahoe International Airport sees a bright future for Northern Nevada but one that will require a substantial investment in the airport. ![]()
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