Southwest Louisiana’s Chennault International Airport is a large aviation property. The former Air Force base has a 2-mile-long runway, newly refurbished parallel taxiway and 60 acres of concrete tarmac. But when it comes to commercial aircraft activity, it’s puny.
The airport, located in Lake Charles, has become a center for maintenance, repair and overhaul work, but other than a random charter flight carrying a large piece of equipment for the local oil patch, there isn’t any cargo business.
Sta...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/fishing-for-airfreight-in-louisianas-bayou-country