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Identification anti Evaluation of Alternative Reliever Systems Facility and Finanaal Reqttirements . Implementation Needs/Contingenry Plan These tasks are discussed in detail in the following chapters. The following sections discuss the reliever airport system concept and the background and need for the Regional System Reliever Airports Study. i. RFr?FVER A_iR_PORT CONCEPT Following the deregulation of the nation's scheduled commercial carriers, many commercial service airports began to experience operational congestion. It was apparent from the onset that augmenting the operational capacity of the nation's commercial airport system through the development of new air carrier airports or new runways would be a slow, and in some cases, impossible process. Therefore, as an alternative to providing additional airside facilities to enhance the capacity of the commercial airport system, both old and new methods of demand management were evaluated and implemented. Use of the reliever airport concept is one established method of demand management. Guidelines for establishing reliever airports were developed by the FAA in the early 1980s.` Reliever airports are intended to provide alternatives for general aviation aircraft that might otherwise be based at or operate at a congested commercial service airport. Reliever airports are intended to serve both locally generated operations and transient activity. In response to operational congestion at Mirmeapolis-St. Paul International Airport and in accordance with the FAA reliever airport guidelines, seven general aviation airports in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area are designated as relievers for Minneapolis-St. Paul International. Existing relievers include: ` The Metropolitan Airports Commission's (MAC) system of reliever airports is founded on the reliever airport concept and has been in place since 1943. -2-