{"id":12246,"date":"2019-03-11T16:05:42","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T16:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/?p=12246"},"modified":"2019-03-11T18:18:38","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T18:18:38","slug":"sawyer-international-airport-receives-michigan-air-carrier-airport-of-the-year-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/michigan\/sawyer-international-airport-receives-michigan-air-carrier-airport-of-the-year-award\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Sawyer International Airport Receives Michigan Air Carrier Airport of the Year Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) Office of\nAeronautics has recognized the Sawyer International Airport located in\nMarquette, Michigan as the recipient of the Airport of the Year Award Air\nCarrier Airport Category. This is an annual award to recognize outstanding\nservice to Michigan Aviation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Commercial-Serv-MI-AofY-19edit.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12247\" width=\"316\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Commercial-Serv-MI-AofY-19edit.jpg 500w, https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Commercial-Serv-MI-AofY-19edit-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 316px) 100vw, 316px\" \/><figcaption><em>Duane DuRay, left and Mark Noel, MDOT. Photo by Kenn Potts.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The award is presented in recognition of sustained excellence\nin contribution to aviation progress in the State of Michigan. In particular, Airport\nManager Duane DuRay was commended for his generous assistance to the MDOT\nOffice of Aeronautics in their grant closeout improvement process. In addition\nto overseeing the complex rehabilitation of runway 1\/19 at Sawyer International\nAirport, DuRay provided significant valuable input to MDOT. As a result, the\nPrimary airports in the state, the FAA, and MDOT will all benefit from the more\nefficient and effective grant closeout process. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The award was presented by Mark Noel, Manager MDOT Office of\nAeronautics Planning and Development Section to DuRay at the 2019 Michigan\nAirport Conference on February 21 held at the Kellogg Conference Center in East\nLansing, Michigan.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, DuRay received a service award in recognition of outstanding\ncontributions to airport development and aviation progress in the State of\nMichigan for his contributions to the improvement of the grant closeout process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DuRay also received the Airport Manager of the Year in September, 2018 at the Michigan Association of Airport Executives (MAAE) Fall Conference. See the <a href=\"\/index.php\/2018-conference-edition\">State Aviation Journal 2018 Fall Conference<\/a> issue for more information.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are 18 commercial airports in Michigan identified in MDOT\nair carrier data reporting with scheduled passenger enplanements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Airport of the Year awards are based on\naccomplishments in the areas of community relations, airport management,\nairport maintenance activities, and innovative activities and programs\nimplemented at airports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) Office of Aeronautics has recognized the Sawyer International Airport located in Marquette, Michigan as the recipient of the Airport of the Year Award Air Carrier Airport Category. This is an annual award to recognize outstanding service to Michigan Aviation. The award is presented in recognition of sustained excellence in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-michigan"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12248,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12246\/revisions\/12248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}