ECONOMIC IMPACT OF MidAmerica St. Louis Airport/Scott AFB (BLV) IDOT would like to thank the Illinois airports and their passengers, users, and tenants for their cooperation and assistance with the preparation of this study. Thank you! For further information about this study, please access the project web site at: http://illinoisairportsmeanbusiness.com/ Or contact: Illinois Department of Transportation (217) 785-8500 Division of Aeronautics (800) 554-0247 Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport TDD (217) 524-3223 1 Langhorne Bond Drive FAX (217) 785-4533 Prepared in 2012 for the Illinois Department of Springfield, Illinois 62707 Email: aero@dot.il.gov Transportation, Division of Aeronautics by: Like us on Facebook www.facebook.com/IllinoisDepartmentofTransportation Follow us on Twitter And assisted by: Applied Real Estate Analysis, twitter.com/#!/IDOT_Illinois Inc.; Crawford, Murphy & Tilly, Inc.; and Hanson Professional Services, Inc. Subscribe to the official IDOT YouTube Channel www.youtube.com/IllinoisDOT = Page 1 = ILLINOIS AIRPORTS ECONOMIC IMPACT OF Mean Business and Jobs MidAmerica St. Louis Airport/Scott AFB (BLV) Qualitative Benefits STUDY PROCESS The Illinois Airport System • The airport is a joint use military/civilian To better understand the relationship 13,157 Jobs The Illinois system of 116 airports not only provides the State with a safe and facility including MidAmerica St. Louis between Illinois’ system of airports and the efficient mode of transportation, it is also an important stimulus for economic Airport and Scott Air Force Base statewide economy, the Illinois Department $783.7 million output growth and development. By providing aviation-related services, the system of Transportation, Division of Aeronautics, • General aviation services are provided supports hundreds of thousands of jobs and produces billions of dollars conducted an economic impact study of 729 Jobs 1 Job by several businesses: in economic activity. The State’s largest employers, and many smaller aviation using a methodology that followed businesses, rely on aviation to rapidly transport personnel, equipment, and – FBOs AVMATS MidAmerica and $137.8 million output $86,600 output Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) supplies. Illinois airports serve as the base of operation for a diverse group Airport Terminal Services guidelines and has been applied to State of businesses, including airlines, air cargo companies, fixed base operators, airport systems throughout the United – Illinois Pipeline: fuel farm flight schools, government entities, restaurants and others. Additionally, States. Funding for this study was provided the vast hospitality industry is supported by both commercial service and • The most common aviation activities by the FAA and the Illinois Department of general aviation. The millions of visitors that travel to Illinois by air each year include Military operations at Scott Transportation, Division of Aeronautics. 28,051 Jobs support a variety of tourist and convention-related business activities, such AFB, international air cargo, corporate as lodging, dining, retail, and entertainment. $1.6 billion output Each Illinois system airport’s total economic and business flights, operations by impact was quantified in terms of employment, the Illinois State Police, charter, flight payroll, and output. Through a comprehensive training, and prisoner transport survey process, the direct economic impacts • The airport’s large air cargo facilities related to on-airport business tenants and include a cargo ramp of nearly six acres, the impacts associated with visitor-related adjacent terminal, perishable center, and expenditures were determined for each a fuel farm system airport. The multiplier effect of these TOTAL IMPACTS impacts was then calculated to ascertain the • Airport is a foreign trade zone and total airport-related impacts. For example, Total Jobs 41,938 enterprise zone when an airport employee purchases local • Air cargo and other operations have goods and services, the spending and re- Total Payroll $1.5 billion multi-modal access to highways, spending spurs additional economic activity waterways, and railroads Total Output $2.5 billion in the region. The total economic impact is the sum of all direct and multiplier impacts. • Boeing manufacturing is located on the airport • Several annual airport events bring thousands of visitors to the region: IMPACT TYPES IMPACT MEASURES – Scott Air Show: 250,000 attendees Direct Impacts account for activities Employment measures the number TOTAL JOBS by on-airport businesses and of full-time equivalent (FTE) jobs – Optimist Rodeo: 5,000 attendees government agencies, and the off- related to airport activity including 337,301 – USO Fund Run: 1,200 attendees airport visitor spending at locations visitor-supported and on-airport Statewide Benefits from Aviation such as hotels and restaurants. Direct construction jobs. A part-time • The airport is typically used as an impacts account for the initial point employee counts as half a full-time access point for the World Trapshooting More than 370,000 jobs can be tied to the airports of Illinois. These where money first starts circulating in employee. events in Sparta and activities in St. employees receive $12.8 billion in payroll and benefits and generate $40.9 the economy. Louis such as sporting events billion in economic activity. In addition to economic impacts, the system of Payroll measures the total annual TOTAL PAYROLL airports provides numerous benefits that enhance the quality of life, health, Multiplier Impacts result from the re- salary, wages, and benefits paid to circulation of direct impacts within the all workers whose livelihoods are safety, and welfare of Illinoisans. $12.8 billion economy. This re-spending of money directly attributable to airport activity. can occur multiple times and takes two The State’s network of 11 commercial service airports provides access to Economic Output (Activity) forms - indirect and induced. Indirect regional, national, and international markets. Nearly 42 million enplaned measures the value of goods and impacts occur when companies incur passengers used the Illinois system of commercial service airports in 2010 services related to airports in Illinois. business expenses. Induced impacts to reach these destinations. In total, Illinois commercial service airports The output of on-airport businesses occur when employees purchase TOTAL OUTPUT support more than 282,000 jobs with annual earnings of approximately is typically assumed to be the sum goods and services. $10.7 billion and $36.5 billion in annual economic activity. of annual gross sales and average $40.9 billion Total Impacts are the combination of annual capital expenditures. all direct and multiplier impacts. = Page 2 =