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MORIARTY – It’s no secret that the pandemic has been hard on commercial aviation. While passenger traffic has ticked up slightly in recent months at the Albuquerque International Sunport and other airports, numbers have stayed well below normal since last March.
But what about smaller airports, like Moriarty Municipal Airport in the East Mountains? On the one hand, an uptick in demand for personal planes, and the freedom they bring, has meant more business for smaller general aviation airports recently. But on the other hand, more traffic means needing to add more infrastructure to keep up with demand.
“These airports are here; this is your economic engine,” said Ryan Waguespack, senior vice president with the National Air Transportation Association, during a tour stop in Moriarty on Tuesday.