A business incubator for minority-owned companies, a school for would-be pilots, athletic facilities, an airplane repair shop: Finalists competing to land the job as the next Baton Rouge Metro Airport director pitched myriad ideas for how to improve the public facility during interviews Monday.

The Metro Council's search committee heard from five contenders as the city-parish seeks to hire a permanent airport director — a position split between two interims since 2016.

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