Pete McBride’s iconic image, graciously shared here, captures 243 commercial and private flights in or out of Aspen Airport between 7 AM and 3 PM on Sunday 7 July 2019. Each image is an actual airplane, but some private planes’ paths, mostly on landings, have been moved very slightly right or left to separate overlapping images. More planes landed or took off later that day for a total of 290 tower operations—close to the airport’s nominal daily capacity of about 300 in good conditions.
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Brandon Blocker, KSPN-FM, interviews Amory Lovins and Matt Moseley of Aspen Fly Right.
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About
Aspen Fly Right’s mission is to offer our community clear, sound, documented, actionable information about the future of the Aspen/Pitkin County Airport.
We’ll focus on the Airport’s proposed redesign to allow bigger planes—that is, on the “airside” where the planes operate, far more than on the “landside” zone of terminal, parking, and roads. We’ve formed no view about whether bigger planes are a good idea, but we do feel it’s far too soon, and not necessary, to make that choice now or probably even in this decade. Aviation innovation has become so rapid that superior solutions not yet considered should be in service before the currently planned airside redesign could even be built, and without its huge costs. Safety, terminal, impacts, and environment can and should be fixed meanwhile.
Structurally, Aspen Fly Right is an independent, noncommercial, nonprofit, nonpartisan public charity with public-benefit, scientific, and educational purposes. It’s governed by a self-perpetuating Board of Directors initially comprising four local residents whose biographical sketches are here. Its Board, staff, and technical advisors are unpaid volunteers. Aspen Fly Right is financed by private donations and grants that will be reported on this website in due course. It receives no government support. Aspen Fly Right is not connected with, derived from, or in succession to any other organization; it is completely self-directed and autonomous, has no known conflicts of interest, and exists solely to serve the public interest.
Please Join Us
Aspen Fly Right is allied with many members of the community who feel aligned with our mission. *
Endorsers of this effort include:
Ellen Anderson
Richard Arnold
Anne Austin-Clapper
Dr. Pat Boeshaar
James Brundige
Suzanne Caskey
Walter Chi
Jay Coursey
Leslie Desmond
Bill Dinsmoor
Wayne Ethridge
Brandon Gonzales
John Guenther
Jay Hughes
Michael Kinsley
Joe Krabacher
Dr. Tom Kurt
Katherine H. Lindholm
Timothy R. Lindholm
Tricia Louthis
Prof. Amory and Judy Hill Lovins
Martha Madsen
John McBride
Pete McBride
Tim and Donna McFlynn
Jackie Merrill
Tom Mooney
Paulina Vander Noordaa
Adam Olson
Laurel Pace
Buzz Patten
Rob Pew
Eddie Rainer
Marina Rainer
Eric Reische
Doug and Jean Rhinehart
Polly Ross
Cliff Runge
George and Helen Schermerhorn
David Sontag
Kate Spencer
Sandy Stay
Susan Taylor
Prof. Tony Tyson
Tony Vagneur
Ed Zasacky
Bob and Terri Ziets
*If you’d like to be join our list, please send a note to info@aspenflyright.org, with your name as you’d like it to appear and a few parenthetical words of description. We also have anonymous allies, welcome more, and respect their need for privacy. And we welcome inquiries from potential volunteers.