Managing your airport from day to day is a complex task, with numerous facets to consider in addition to your standard operations. Our former airport managers understand the issues you face and can help you develop a business plan, including coordinating stakeholder outreach and facility assessments; identifying strategic initiatives and alternatives to meet them; developing a framework for a rebranding and marketing plan; and conducting aviation and nonaviation airport property and operational and feasibility assessments, including strategies for improving your airport’s bottom line.
We have assumed numerous airport management and operations roles for our clients in need of interim airport management help, and we have managed and operated the Bult Field, the future home of the South Suburban Airport, under contract to the State of Illinois since 2017. 
We help you position your airport for success by evaluating and updating your leasing policies, developing mission and vision statements and providing best practice recommendations for management, administration, property development, operations and safety and security. We work with you to establish rates-and-charges policies and develop key performance indicator dashboards to help you drive solid business decisions.
Our experience includes advising clients on the proper use of a public-private partnership, developing a solid financial business case analysis, identifying funding sources for capital development and offering sell- and buy-side public-private partnership (P3) due diligence services and innovative project delivery methods that help you make the most of your P3 strategies. Our grant writing group excels in finding, applying for and resourcing the many available innovative federal and state grant funding buckets.
Furthermore, we bring an enhanced understanding of small airports from our work to update and rewrite the Airport Cooperative Research Program’s Research Report 16: Guidebook for Managing Small Airports, which allowed us to connect with the nationwide small-airport community and identify key issues to address or expand in the guidebook. This book represents a compendium of best practices and practical advice for airport management in an easy-to-use digital format, with links to policies, regulations and best practices. It’s written to target the needs of airports ranging in size from small-hub commercial service to single-runway general aviation.
Our airport business-planning practice is set up to offer our clients value beyond our traditional technical services. By helping you make the most of your airport assets and your share of local capital development dollars, we can help you improve your bottom line.
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Hanson helps airports with business planning, stakeholder outreach, facility assessments, strategic initiative development, marketing and rebranding frameworks and operational and feasibility assessments. Hanson focuses on helping airport owners strengthen operations and improve financial performance.
Yes. Hanson has served in interim airport management and operations roles for clients and has managed and operated Bult Field under contract with the state of Illinois since 2017. Hanson’s team includes former airport managers who understand the day-to-day challenges airports face.
Hanson evaluates airport assets, leasing policies and operational opportunities to identify strategies that improve revenue and support long-term growth. Hanson also helps clients establish rates-and-charges policies, identify funding sources and evaluate public-private partnership opportunities.
Yes. Hanson assists clients with grant funding strategies and applications and helps identify federal and state funding opportunities. Hanson also provides due diligence and business case analysis for capital development and public-private partnership initiatives.
Hanson develops best-practice recommendations for airport management, administration, operations, safety and security. Hanson also creates key performance indicator dashboards, evaluates policies and helps airports make data-driven decisions that support efficient long-term operations and asset performance.
“My passion is aviation. I began my career in aviation as an air traffic controller, then an airport engineer, and then an airport manager. With Hanson, I’m able to use all my aviation experience to help airports overcome their biggest challenges.”
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