Questions and Answers
Q: Has an official decision been made? Is this project definitely happening?
The EIS for this project has been "paused" by the FAA as of March 27, 2024.
Q: When will the FAA make a decision about this proposal?
Before the announcement that the EIS had been "paused," we were expecting the release of a draft EIS (Environmental Impact Statement) followed by another public comment period and then a final revision. This draft was set to be released on April 26, 2024. The graphic below from yeagerairporteis.com shows the steps in this process.
Q: What could the FAA have decided if the EIS had not been paused?
Move forward with the plan exactly as proposed by Yeager Airport and destroy a large portion of Coonskin Park.
Suggest an alternative plan.
Suggest no changes to the runway at Yeager Airport.
Q: Does the runway really need to be longer? And would this project bring more and/or bigger planes to CRW?
No. Airline service to an area is dependent on that particular area's demographics, not the length of the airport's runway. As a matter of fact, the runway at Yeager Airport is only a few hundred feet shorter than the runways at Reagan in Washington DC and La Guardia in NYC. A longer runway will not bring more airplanes to Charleston, WV.
Q: How can I help?
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