Search Content

Executive summary of the 2003 Tier 2 Air Service Study.

The Tier 2 Air Service Study began as an exploration of the roles and functions of the Tier 2 airports that surround Minneapolis-St. Paul. These airports are in both Minnesota and Wisconsin and include Duluth, Rochester, St. Cloud and Eau Claire. The study launched with the premise that someday the highways would be even more crowded and that eventually MSP might have capacity issues of its own. Since major changes at airports require planning, design, environmental assessments, community and political consensus and finally money, lots of money, it seemed prudent to examine what were the possible future roles for these airports and start to get straight on what needed to be done to build an inter-regional system of passenger airports in the metropolitan area.