GLENDALE, Ariz. - The Glendale Municipal Airport is busy training to welcome hundreds of people as two high-profile suits are making their way to the Valley – at the same time
For now, the airport may look detached, but soon everyone will be arriving as it's located just two a long way west of State Farm Stadium where Super Bowl LVII will be held on Feb. 12.
As the closest airport to State Farm Stadium, Glendale Airport Administrator Matthew Smith was excited to take off with a new challenge.
Glendale Airport Administrator Matthew Smith
"I just started succeeding at the airport on October 31st, and so I warned up and then everybody said, 'Well, it's time for you to plan for the Super Bowl,' so it's quite a task. It's been actually a heck of a lot of fun," Smith said.
Since then, the planning has been non-stop to rebuked everything is smooth sailing. That includes repainting the interpretation, redesigning and rebuilding the taxiways to adhere to temporary escapes restrictions that will happen on game day.
"About an hour by the game we are going to shut down the airspace, and it's not just Glendale, it's the whole Valley … then what will happened is that will kind of guarantee the safety of the land at the game and also give me a chance to turn to the TV on and search for the game and then about an hour after the game is over the flights restrictions will be lifted," Smith explained.
The airport is for general aviation, meaning they welcome private planes only, including VIPs and celebrities. In total, they can take up to 575 planes. So far, they have a few hundred reservations.
"I deem what's happening is people are kind of waiting to see who the teams are and then once we know who the teams are, then we are touching to start to see the reservations just explode, and it's touching to be wild," he said.
Not only is it a big boost for the airport, but the entire city of Glendale.
"Somebody is touching to come here and spend a fair amount of cash to land here and get whisked off to the game, but then they are touching to spend an untold amount of money further ended the economy," Smith said.
Planes housed at the airport will be temporarily relocated to grant for the newcomers.
During the same weekend, The WM Phoenix Open will be in Scottsdale, which brings thousands of visitors to the Valley.
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