Michael Giardino is already creating a list of initiatives and goals for his first few years as the new executive director of the Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport. And public trust is at the top of it.
“The goals – how about restore the public trust? I had walked into a similar circumstance in Rochester, by the way. The previous two directors had not done too well,” he said. “The obvious thing for airports is to be a safe, secure and financially-stable facility. Airports are economic development musts; they’re economic development drivers. So, having a commercial service airport in your locality is a plus for businesses to sustain them, to grow them, to expand them.”
The Rochester, New York, native took over the airport’s leadership Nov. 6 and was most recently the director of aviation with the Monroe County Airport Authority for the Greater Rochester International Airport since 2012.
