TRAVERSE CITY — Good air service. It’s one of the strongest tools a growing community can have in its arsenal for economic development.

For the Greater Grand Traverse Region, that tool is Cherry Capital Airport or TVC.

“I can say that today, 53% of all of our travelers are local travelers. Now, a majority of them are local travelers. And that’s typical at most airports where you have about 50, 50, combination,” said Cherry Capital Airport CEO, Kevin Klein.

That was not always the case for Cherry Capital Airport. When Kevin Klein started working there in 2002, he’s been CEO since 20-11, TVC was only serving about 200,000 passengers every year, two thirds of them tourists.

“We had five destinations. In the majority of the year, we only had two destinations being Detroit, Chicago. But in

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