There needs to be three major airports in Colorado. Not one.
There needs to be three major airports in Colorado. Not one (DIA). Colorado Springs needs a major airport. Colorado Springs is the second-largest city in Colorado, home to the Air Force Academy, Fort Carson, Peterson Space Force Base, Schriever Space Force Base, Cheyenne Mountain, and the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Training Center. Yet COS punches well below its weight in commercial air service, and Coloradans living south of Castle Rock too often drive to DIA — adding congestion, emissions, and lost time. This proposed expansion will increase economic and travel opportunities for our fellow Coloradans.
As Governor I will:
- Partner with the City of Colorado Springs to expand commercial gate capacity, modernize concourse infrastructure, and pursue a second daily transcontinental nonstop (East Coast and West Coast).
- Recruit additional carriers by leveraging the state’s economic development authority — and by making the case that COS has 700,000+ residents in its primary catchment, plus the largest concentration of military families in the Mountain West.
- Fund ground-side improvements — rental car, hotel, and rideshare facilities — through state-federal infrastructure partnerships.
- Connect COS to my Front Range high-speed rail corridor as a key node, so a flyer can land at COS and be in downtown Denver in under an hour.
- Support cargo and aerospace growth at COS, leveraging the existing space industry footprint and Catalyst Campus for Technology & Innovation.
