"Louisville Airport to get new general manager"

Tuesday, August 11, 2003

Airport to get new general manager
Miller gained experience luring airlines during time in Fort Wayne 
By CHRIS POYNTER
The Louisville (KY) Courier-Journal 


Louisville International Airport has a new general manger: C.T. "Skip"
Miller, who has been executive director of Fort Wayne International Airport
in Indiana for the last four years. 

He helped bring two new airlines - a passenger carrier and a cargo service -
to the Northern Indiana city. 

That ability was one of the qualities the Louisville Regional Airport
Authority's board was looking for in its national search for a general
manager, Chairman J. Michael Brown said. 

During a special meeting yesterday afternoon, the board voted unanimously to
hire Miller to succeed Jim DeLong, who retires at the end of next month. 

Miller, who did not attend the meeting and could not be reached for comment,
will start his new position Sept. 8. A reception to introduce him to local
leaders is planned for Sept. 3. 

"We think we've found a great person for the job," Brown said. 

Earlier this year Shuttle America, a regional jet service, announced it was
moving its headquarters from Windsor Locks, Conn., to Fort Wayne, bringing
up to 174 jobs to the community over the next three years. 

Miller also was the lead negotiator in 1998 in persuading Kitty Hawk, a
cargo airline, to build a hub at Fort Wayne, creating 450 jobs. 

"He put us on the map," Michael Gouloff, president of the Fort Wayne-Allen
County Airport Authority board, said in a telephone interview yesterday. "We
are very sorry to see him go." 

Although Fort Wayne's airport is smaller than Louisville's, Brown said it is
a "microcosm" of Louisville International, in part because it has both
passenger and cargo planes. 

Also, Brown said, Fort Wayne is served mainly by regional jets, the 50- to
90-seat planes that shuttle passengers to hub airports. Louisville
International has seen significant growth in the number of such jets in
recent years and is building six regional jet gates to accommodate them. 

Miller comes to Louisville as it faces a load of projects under way or
planned, including a $26million terminal renovation and construction of a
225-room airport hotel. 

Miller will also work to build a new hangar for Republic Airlines, a
start-up jet service that plans to locate its corporate and maintenance
headquarters at Louisville International. And he will be the lead contact
with United Parcel Service, which has its national sorting hub at the
airport. 

John Hindman, a UPS vice president, applauded the airport board for choosing
Miller, saying his experience with air-cargo operations is an asset. 

Miller began working at the Fort Wayne airport in 1984, when he was hired as
director of operations and facilities. He became its executive director in
1999. 

He started his aviation career in 1982, as assistant to the president of
Towner Air Freight Inc. in South Bend, Ind. 

He has also worked at St. Joseph County Airport, also in South Bend, and the
Greater Pittsburgh International Airport.


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