DAYTON — The Dayton International Airport has a new business plan to outline its goals for the next two to seven years, including making more passenger and rental-car parking available and launching a revamped Web site with a travel booking facility for online access to Dayton flights.

The city-owned airport has previously announced plans to earmark about 400 acres of its 4,500-acre property for lease to commercial tenants, in order to increase the airport's non-airline revenue and help create new jobs for the region. The airport's revamped Web site, to be launched within the next month or two, would support those goals by providing information about economic development opportunities for companies there, including three-dimensional views of land parcels available for development, said Iftikhar Ahmad, Dayton's aviation director who manages the airport.

It is the first comprehensive, long-term business plan the airport has compiled with specific goals, Ahmad said in an interview Tuesday, Jan. 6. It was fashioned during the past two years in consultation with neighboring communities, business leaders, colleges and community organizations which are to receive copies, Ahmad said.

The goals include new and previously announced plans, which Ahmad said have been driven in some cases by passenger suggestions in surveys. Among the plans are:

•Connecting Dayton International Airport to an existing rail line in Vandalia to make it an intermodal hub that could transfer cargo between airplanes, trucks and trains.

•Building or expanding restaurants and coffee retailers in concourses and the terminal building's lobby, with work to begin this spring.

•Constructing a three-level parking garage, with work to start this spring and be concluded in 2010.

•Expanding a traveler center for business passengers to include a location in Concourse D.

•Continue reducing the airlines' cost per enplanement, their expense for each passenger who boards in Dayton, in efforts to make it easier for the carriers to operate and expand flight service in Dayton. Since Ahmad's 2006 arrival, the airport has reduced the airlines' cost per enplanement from $14 per passenger to $4.50 this year.

AirTran Airways, one of the airport's busiest carriers, said it appreciates Dayton's efforts to reduce the operating costs.

Officials of neighboring communities said the airport has consulted with them and kept them informed of its plans.

"It's an economic development tool," said Rich Hopkins, a spokesman for the city of Vandalia. "If we can tell a developer that they can be right next to the main airport for the region, we feel like that's a very attractive thing to say. The stronger that airport is, the better it is for us."

Butler Twp. officials are supportive of the airport's plans, said Jeff Bothwell, the township's economic development director.

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