b'HANGARSTRK51Currently, airport personnel manually approve each reservation,To continue the learning from both sides, TRK and Altaport team but that function will likely be automated in the future. Customermembers hold a regularly recurring call to review new features requests are usually approved within an hour or two during regularand discuss potential product and process improvements. When business hours.needed, Cozzens also assists the TRK team through Zoom calls We are hyper-focused in helping GA airports stretched byand onsite visits. Menasco says getting the Ops team comfortable labor and budget constraints, says Cozzens. Airport managersand up to speed with the platform was initially a minor challenge but have so few opportunities to interact with transient travelers.things are falling into place with internal training. There have been some glitches with the new systemone Pricing and Paymentwith a reservation for hangar use starting and ending on the Because the service is relatively new, the airport is evaluating itssame day, a use case that hadnt initially been foreseen by the initial pricing structure. To keep things simple, short-term rentalairport. But Menasco credits Altaport for responding quickly. rates are based on aircraft weight.Currently, Cessnas and similar planes pay $150 per night on weekdays and $188 per night on weekends. For turbine aircraft overAIRPORTS PROUDLY USING TRECAN SNOWMELTERS INCLUDE:5,000 pounds, the rate is $300 per night.BOS| BUF| BWI| CLE| DCA| DFW| IAD|JFK| LGAPilatus or equivalent aircraft pay $450 per MCI| MHT| MSP| PIT|YUL|YVR|YYZnight, small jets pay $675 per night andSNOWmedium to large jets pay about $1,000 per night. Rental rates are adjusted when inventory is limited. For instance, if a Cessna operator wants to book space, but only larger hangars are available, that customer pays the price for a smaller Cessna-size hangar. Towing fees are $250 to $350 depending on aircraft size. Trecan Snowmelters are the industry standard When a reservation is requested, a holdfor Airport snowmelting equipment.is placed on the customers credit card and payment is processed through Stripe. Cozzens notes that invoicing for trustworthy repeat customers will be added in the future. Trial to Minimize ErrorsTRK Director of Operations Vince Wawrzynski, also a retired military pilot, had his team execute a trial of the system with Cozzens before opening it up to customers. We did a dry run using real aircraft and calling UNICOM on the radio and stepping through all our procedures to include what would be going on with the Altaport platform and working throughSave Time and Moneyvarious what-if questions, he explains. Cost EffectiveThe trial run inspired software tweaks Eliminate snow removal delaysand refined the airports standard operating Eco-friendly and energy efficientprocedures for the new program. By the time the test was complete, Altaports software Reduce or eliminate trucking of snowdeveloper had already added new data points.on air traffic areasWe launched the hangar solution as Eliminate security risks associated with trucksa proof of concept with Truckee. Now, the product is much more finessed, with improvements reflective of learnings from both the dry runs and real world use, Cozzenstrecan.comremarks. There were learnings on the airport ISO 9001:2015 Certifiedside as well.AirportImprovement.comSeptember 2025'