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INTRODUCTION <br />In May 1989, the Metropolitan Council of the Twin Cities (Metropolitan Council) <br />undertook the Regional System Reliever Airports Study to determine the long-range reliever <br />system needs of the Twin Cities azea. The study was designed to address a number of <br />questions about general aviation and the reliever airport system serving Minneapolis-St. Paul <br />International Airport: <br />Is additional diversion of general aviation demand from Minneapolis-St. Paul <br />International to the reliever system likely? <br />How much additional diversion might occur, and what reliever airports aze <br />most likely to capture this demand? <br />What additional facilities aze needed to accommodate transient aircraft <br />operations in the reliever system? <br />Do the reliever airports have the ability to expand to accommodate new <br />facilities? <br />Is sufficient geographic coverage provided by the reliever system? <br />Is there a need for new airports in the regional system; if so, where does this <br />need exist? <br />How will the age of system pilots and aircraft impact future demand levels? <br />Will new terminal control area requirements result in a change in regional <br />demand centers? <br />Are revisions to the Metropolitan Council's Aviation Chapter of the <br />Development Guide/Polity Plan needed to provide an effective reliever <br />system? <br />To address these questions, the Regional System Reliever Airports Study was <br />designed to incorporate the following tasks: <br />Reliever Inventory <br />Reliever Forecasts <br />Capacity Analyses <br />-1- <br />