Hello Amanda,

Happy New Year! Our busy winter flight season is off to a flying start!

Due to our expected busy flight schedule and TSA staffing challenges we highly recommend passengers and transportation providers arrive at the airport a minimum of two hours prior to scheduled departure times. 

This season all six of our partner airlines return with direct flights to 15 cities and 16 airports across the nation. United, Southwest, American, Delta, JetBlue and Alaska Airlines have all loaded their ski season flights for purchase and the current winter 2023-2024 flight route map and schedule can be found online at https://www.steamboat.com/plan-your-trip/getting-here-and-around/flights.

The updated flight schedule is below and subject to change throughout the season.

Our Terminal Area Plan (TAP) is complete! The TAP is the cornerstone of a much needed terminal expansion and addresses current and future requirements at the airport. The TAP sets the stage for funding, design and construction of a three-phase terminal expansion project starting in the near future. Our TAP calls for us to more than double the terminal size; adds three additional gates with jet bridges, significantly expands baggage claim and ground transportation areas, and increases the TSA checkpoint and ticketing capacities. All of the YVRA Terminal Area Plans on our website at https://flysteamboat.com/guiding-documents/; the second Public Open House presentation recording is available at this same link. 

With an eye toward this major terminal expansion project, we’re excited to announce that we recently selected the team of Jviation, Inc. and Gensler as our Engineering and Architectural Consultants and look forward to starting the design process early in 2024.

Pictured above is our existing Terminal, below is an image of the Terminal after Phase 1 & 2 Expansion.

We completed the installation of a new Parking Access Revenue Control System (PARCS) in the paid, commercial, and employee parking lots just in time for the busy winter 2023-2024 flight season. This added approximately 170 additional parking spaces to the paid parking lot. The new PARCS is a simpler, faster, and more intuitive control system expected to speed entry and exit, and reduce customer frustrations and parking lot issues. To help cover the costs of the new PARCS and expanded parking lot facilities we are raising parking lot rates from $9/day to $10/day starting December 1, 2023; this is the first parking lot rate increase in over 10 years. The 30-minute parking area and the first hour in our paid parking lot are still free. 

Our General Aviation Development Plan project is complete! This project facilitates and encourages future aviation-related business development at the airport. The project brings an additional 25 acres inside our perimeter fence with direct aircraft access to the airfield. Phase 1 of the project has already been awarded and the developer is set to break ground on eight (8) new hangars in April 2024. A Request for Proposal (RFP) for development of Phase 2 is expected to be published in spring of 2024.

We’re excited to welcome new aviation-related businesses in Phase 2 of our GADP Development and highly encourage interested parties to review the General Aviation Development Analysis Final Report at https://flysteamboat.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/HDN-GA-Analysis-Executive-Summary_FINAL_2023-05-10_reduced.pdf and contact us at 970-276-5004 or kbooth@co.routt.co.us with any questions.

YVRA still has good paying employment opportunities for the 2023-2024 winter season and beyond. Please contact 970-276-5003 with any questions. To apply for any of the following positions please visit: https://selfservice.co.routt.co.us/ess/employmentopportunities/default.aspx  



• Airport – Full Time, Part Time and Temporary Janitorial Services Worker

Hiring Range: $21.40 - $28.95/hr

• Airport – Seasonal Security Guard

Hiring Range: $21.40 - $28.95/hr