Another New Mexico Airport Regains Service

After nearly eight years, SkyWest and United will bring air service back to a small New Mexico city.

Joey Gerardi

Monday, January 27, 2025 at 10:33 AM ET

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A United Express CRJ-200 arriving into Chicago O’Hare. [Credit: AirlineGeeks/ Joey Gerardi]

Key Takeaways:

Farmington, New Mexico, will regain commercial air service in May 2025 with daily SkyWest Airlines (United Express) flights to Denver, ending an eight-year hiatus since 2017.
The return of service is facilitated by an $850,000 federal grant and a "risk-sharing agreement" with SkyWest, where Farmington will pay $6.9 million over two years to cover costs only if passenger revenue falls short.
This marks Farmington as the fifth city in New Mexico to reconnect to the air network, a state that has seen more cities rejoin commercial air service than anywhere else in the country.

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Farmington, New Mexico, a city in the state’s northwestern corner, will be regaining air service after nearly eight years. The last time the airport had regular flights was back in 2017 with Great Lakes Airlines, which ended service just five months before the airline collapsed entirely.

The city will be receiving $850,000 from the Department of Transportation’s Small Community Air Service Development Program (SCASDP), and it also applied for New Mexico’s Rural Air Service Enhancement grant, which provides $2.75 million to several rural airports across the state.