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Travel to leisure markets in the western U.S. has rapidly picked up in the past three years with areas like Bend, Oregon getting much more airline service.

The Chelan Douglas Port Authority owns the property and approved a lease agreement with CMI at their most recent meeting.

Airlines are offsetting the spike in costs by flying bigger aircraft that have many more seats but aren't much more expensive to operate than regional jets.

Planes into and out of the airport rose from 73% to 77% of seats being occupied by the middle of the year.

Why Have Plans for a Wenatchee-to-SFO Nonstop Flight Stalled? Five years ago, in 2018, it seemed hopeful that a nonstop commercial flight from EAT to SFO (Pangborn to San Francisco) would actually happen. The United States Department of Transportation awarded a grant of $750,000 to match the upswell of community support for just the idea of the Wenatchee Valley connecting to the Bay Area... Read M

The last time it had any rehabilitation work done on it was in 1999, which means it's now being used beyond its 20-year pavement life.

Daytime highs will be quite a bit below normal of about 55 this week.

Yeah, We know when we live in a small town. And for the most part, we love it. Sure we don't have a few things that we would love to see come to Wenatchee. We've talked about before. But there are a few other signs. And we like to make fun of ourselves for it.

The money coming through the Federal Aviation Administration required that projects already be underway, and the General Aviation building is still in the planning stages.

I never saw it with all the clouds coving over Washington in the past week, but there are some that are saying that the Chinese Spy Balloon, that has now been shot down over the Atlantic Ocean, could have been floating high above the state of Washington. Actually I’m kinda surprised the balloon didn’t get popped by the Space Needle. And how did it get over the Cascades? Stevens Pass? Boy, that would have taken forever! But while soaring through Washington, the spy balloon could have made itself useful.