St Louis airport lease RFQ attracts a healthy 18 responses

It is been a stop-start process, mainly stop, for the leasing of airports to the private sector in the U.S. in recent years. The procedure that took the San Juan Luis Muñoz Marín airport into private operational hands is really the only notable success.

Now, after there has been protracted wrangling within the municipality for more than a year, the stage has been reached in St Louis, Missouri, where Requests for Qualifications at least have been sought.

While some of those firms providing them were expected to participate, there have been some surprises as well, and the number of RFQ submissions suggests that interest remains throughout the world - despite the collapse of previous procedures.