Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties

Airport board looks at ski baggage policies

By TOM LAVENTURE

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IRONWOOD — Air passengers reporting not being allowed to fly with their skis were a topic of the Gogebic-Iron County Airport meeting on Monday.

Airport board chair Joe Bonovetz said he has received calls from air passengers who complained they couldn’t bring skis on the plane as checked luggage or as a carry-on. The question of skis was part of the interview process with Boutique Air and other airline applicants during the Essential Airline Service interviews in 2019, he said.

Bonovetz said he was under the impression from the interviews th...