Gene Olson

The General Wayne A. Downing Peoria International Airport closed out 2024 with its highest December passenger count on record.

Construction on the new air traffic control tower will begin with the base building and the foundations for the tower.

Gen. Wayne A Downing Peoria International Airport is on a run for setting monthly passenger records as it celebrates an Airport of the Year designation from the Illinois Department of Transportation.

Gene Olson, director of Airports for the Metropolitan Airport Authority, says funding holds the key to the complex project to replace the current air traffic control tower that dates back to 1959.

Summer travel figures at Gen. Wayne A. Downing Peoria International Airport are approaching record totals, and the administration is looking at more ways to keep passenger numbers on the rise.

The General Wayne A. Downing Peoria International Airport is almost finished rebounding from the pandemic. Director of Airports Gene Olson says passenger counts in April were “pretty much normal” and a number of projects are moving along.

Gene Olsen thinks the Peoria International Airport resolved “an existential issue” on Thursday with the announcement of a $15 million federal grant to build a new air traffic control tower.

As Peoria International Airport marked the 11th anniversary of its terminal on Tuesday, airport director Gene Olson said plans for a new air traffic control tower are moving forward.

Peoria International Airport director Gene Olson was the assistant airport manager at Evansville Regional Airport in Indiana on Sept. 11, 2001.

Central Illinois travelers will soon have another Florida destination among their options for direct flights from Peoria.