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com~eaient airport. Snow removal, aircraft security, and fuel i <br />type/price aze most important to these aircraft operators. The <br />survey indicates contentment with the current situation in regard <br />to the airports in the azea. <br />Approximately. 50 percent of the aircraft registrants based at <br />Minneapolis-St. Paul International responded to the registered <br />aircraft owners survey. Of those responding, more than 30 <br />percent indicated a willingness to relocate to a reliever or other <br />general aviation airport is the metropolitan area. If this sample <br />is representative of aircraft based at Minneapolis-St. Paul <br />International, it may be possible to reduce the number of <br />general aviation aircraft based at the airport to 34. This would <br />translate into an additional reduction of approximately 10,000 <br />annual aviation operations. When combined with .the results <br />of the transient pilot survey, the surveys indicate that it maybe <br />possible to reduce total annual general aviation operations at <br />Minneapolis-St. Paul International to approximately 48,000. <br />This, of rntrrse, assumes that convenient and adequate facilities <br />aze in place to enrnurage and provide incentive for this transfer <br />of demand. <br />4. AiRpORT CLASSIFTGATIONS • <br />Airports within the metropolitan area aze classified by functional and operational <br />categories defined by the FAA and by the Metropolitan Council. Several classification <br />systems are referred to in the Regional System Reliever Airports Study. The FAA's airport <br />classification system is used primarily to provide design standards for various airport types. <br />The Metropolitan Council's system, designed to clarify the federal and state classification <br />systems, is intended to be consistent with the federal system while allowing for planning <br />flexibility. <br />The Metropolitan Council airport classifications are as follows: <br />Major - International, national, and regional scope; primary users <br />aze air carriers and scheduled air passengers, commuter <br />and supplemental/charter. <br />Intermediate - International, national, and regional scope; primary users. <br />are corporations. <br />I-33 <br />