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Committee backs $150,000 contribution to airport development fund to attract new service
Summary
Marathon County committee voted to forward a $150,000 request for the Central Wisconsin Air Service Development Fund to the full board for the 2026 budget. The fund would be part of a roughly $500,000 package to offer minimum revenue guarantees to airlines seeking new routes to Central Wisconsin Airport.
Marathon County’s infrastructure committee on [date not specified] voted to forward a request to include $150,000 in the 2026 county budget to help seed a Central Wisconsin Air Service Development Fund, intended to make the airport more competitive when airlines consider new routes.
The fund would be paired with contributions from Portage County and private and business donors to create about $500,000 in local incentives. The airport’s assistant director for finance, David Droz, told the committee the fund would be used for a minimum revenue guarantee (MRG) program that reimburses airlines if a new route underperforms against a negotiated revenue target.
“The program does work,” Droz said, describing a prior local incentive that helped bring service to the market but ended when the carrier — Avelo Airlines — withdrew for business reasons. “Today…
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