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]

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Farmington, New Mexico, will resume commercial air service with SkyWest Airlines (United Express) to Denver on May 8, 2025, after an eight-year hiatus.
The city secured federal and state grants to support the service, entering into a "risk-sharing agreement" with SkyWest where Farmington will pay up to $6.9 million over two years only if passenger revenue falls below the airline's costs.
Farmington is the fifth city in New Mexico to regain air service, highlighting a broader state initiative to reconnect rural communities via the New Mexico Rural Air Service Enhancement grant.

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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.