The State of COU

175,860 passengers flew out of Columbia Regional Airport last year on scheduled airliners serving Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth, and now Denver. That’s a far cry from the handful that boarded the first Ozark Airlines flights to St. Louis and Springfield from the old Municipal Airport when service began on September 4, 1952. For this year, estimates […]

More Flights through Columbia Regional Airport (COU)

With more flights in and out of COU, travel in mid-Missouri looks to be on an upswing. But will it last? As passengers drive up to Columbia Regional Airport (COU) on South Airport Drive, they might notice a new parking lot just north of COU’s previous 350-spot parking lot. Created d with some of the […]