Slay Wants to Look at Putting Lambert Airport Under Private Management

March 23, 2017

The city is asking for federal approval to study whether it’s a good idea to put St. Louis Lambert International Airport under private management.

Mayor Francis Slay was in Washington with Travis H. Brown, president of Grow Missouri Inc., an organization funded by retired St. Louis investor Rex Sinquefield, to apply for one of five open slots in the Federal Aviation Administration’s Airport Privatization Pilot Program.

The preliminary application made Tuesday asks only for the OK to examine privatization, and a decision could come in a month.

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