Operations
Through the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, the airport was constantly adding new fares and expanding service. The largest number of passenger arriving and departing the Colorado Springs Airport was in 1996, when the airport handled nearly 5 million passengers. At that time the now defunct Western Pacific Airlines had a hub at the airport. The airline moved their hub to Denver International Airport in late 1996, which caused an abrupt decline in passenger traffic.
Colorado Springs continues to expand service and now offers non-stop service to 11 U.S. cities. Most of the cities that can be reached from the airport are hubs for major airlines. However, Colorado Springs has seen sporadic service to several non-hub cities in recent years.
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Famous quotes containing the word operations:
“There is a patent office at the seat of government of the universe, whose managers are as much interested in the dispersion of seeds as anybody at Washington can be, and their operations are infinitely more extensive and regular.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“A sociosphere of contact, control, persuasion and dissuasion, of exhibitions of inhibitions in massive or homeopathic doses...: this is obscenity. All structures turned inside out and exhibited, all operations rendered visible. In America this goes all the way from the bewildering network of aerial telephone and electric wires ... to the concrete multiplication of all the bodily functions in the home, the litany of ingredients on the tiniest can of food, the exhibition of income or IQ.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)
“You can’t have operations without screams. Pain and the knife—they’re inseparable.”
—Jean Scott Rogers. Robert Day. Mr. Blount (Frank Pettingell)