WEG Partners With New Airport Tenant

A 12-year tenant at Blue Grass Airport, TAC Air, is spending $11.5 million on improvements that it hopes will be completed in time for the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games.

But a relatively new company that also services private and chartered aircraft at the airport has become WEG organizers’ “preferred” partner.

Air 51, which opened a $3 million hangar at the airport last year, will work closely with the Games’ hospitality program to provide special attention for visitors who fly into Lexington — whether commercially or on private or chartered planes — who have bought hospitality packages for the Games.

TAC Air and Air 51 are the two “fixed-base operators” at the Lexington airport. Fixed-base operators at airports generally provide fuel, maintenance and storage for private planes…

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Date: 6-5-2009
By: www.kentucky.com