yakima airport

Yakima city officials want to know what it will take to get people to use the airport. The city wants more people flying in and out of their hometown instead of driving to SeaTac or Pasco. Many people fly out of Yakima only to end up waiting for hours at SeaTac...

All the wrangling in Washington, D.C. and the political stalemate over the so-called sequester could impact operations at the Yakima Airport. Interim Airport Manager Rob Peterson tells KIMA Action News it is his understanding the Yakima Airport is on the list to close the control tower...

Improving air service is the goal of consultants that spoke with Yakima City Council members Tuesday. Air Service Planners, a consulting firm, has been hired by the city to find more air carriers to operate out of the Yakima Airport to make it more profitable. Yakima City Manager Tony O'Rourke says the airport has great potential to become profitable but it may take time to attract the carriers. R

The Yakima Air Terminal is on the mend says City Manager Tony O'Rourke. The city council tonight is expected to approve a contract with a company called Air Service Planners for air service development at the airport. The company will be in charge of finding more air carriers who want to operate in Yakima...

Yakima County is willing to give its split share of the airport to the city. Officials on both sides admit the airport would not succeed without a sole owner. Yakima City manager, Tony O'Rourke, says revitalizing the airport could put Yakima on the map...

A military helicopter and a commercial jet crashed at the Yakima airport on Saturday. That was the scenario in a mock crash exercise at the Yakima airport on Saturday. The exercise involved more than a hundred actors and closed the airport for most of the day...

An RV and a shirt-tail relation of the RV will be featured Saturday (Sept. 8) in McAllister Museum of Aviation’s final airplane showcase of this summer. The museum is at 2003 S. 16th Ave., Yakima, at the east end of the Yakima airport...

Wineries in the valley are toasting a new partnership. Launching in September, "Washington Wine Country Taste and Tote" will make it easier and more affordable to taste and travel the Yakima Valley, Tri-Cities and Walla Walla Valley wine regions...

Yakima Airport service well over 120,000 people each year. McAllister Field's parking is now under new management with Republic Parking making some notable changes. The biggest of the changes is that people using the parking lot must prepay and they now have two options, either pay a dollar for up to two hours or eight dollars for the entire day...

Yakima City Manager Tony O'Rourke presented several ideas at a joint study session Tuesday, to improve the Yakima airport, which he called "under-performing" and "deficit-driven.” He says it's the key to Yakima's economic future. Getting more airlines to set up shop at Yakima's airport has been a struggle...