FLINT, MI – Bishop International Airport has completed another addition, with the aim of increasing the airportÕs capacity. James Rice, airport director of airport, expects the facility to see 1 million visitors a year in a few years.

The airport is ranked the third most-used in the state with more than 640,000 passengers in 1999, after Detroit Metropolitan Airport and Willow Run Airport, both in the southern portion of Southeast Michigan.Rice says the recent $13.25 million expansion was needed to handle more customers from northern Michigan, and a large increase in customers in northern Oakland County. The 52,000-sf addition to the 5-acre terminal was completed recently, with four new boarding gates and a new expanded waiting area.

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