U.S. Transportation Pete Buttigieg toured Trenton-Mercer Airport Wednesday.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg talks to a Trenton-Mercer airport employee on the tarmac Wednesday during a tour of the 60-year-old facility with U.S. Rep. Bonnie Coleman Watson and Mercer county officials to demonstrate the need to replace the terminal with a larger building and to move the air traffic control tower to a location with better visibility.U.S. Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, D-12th Dist., is no stranger to Trenton-Mercer airport.
Watson Coleman stressed the airport’s regional importance both to New Jersey and neighboring Pennsylvania. While the number of gates isn’t increased, the new terminal would allow larger Airbus A320 aircraft to use all gates. Now, only two gates serve larger airliners. On Wednesday, a waiting Frontier Airlines aircraft dwarfed the building that serves it, illustrating the need.
Airport officials applied unsuccessfully for grants from the bipartisan infrastructure law, passed in Nov. 2021 in fiscal year 2022 and 2023, said Merlinda Montgomery, airport manager. The next opportunity to apply could come in October or November, if that opportunity is extended, she said.
Passenger traffic at Trenton-Mercer has been increasing. It’s up from 363,626 in 2017 to 404,349 in 2018 and 462,173 in 2019, FAA statistics show. Traffic fell to to 129,536 in 2020 during the coronavirus pandemic, but bounced back to 243,329 in 2021 and climbed to 328,139 last year, according to. FAA forecasts predict passenger traffic to grow to 476,507 in 2035.
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