Sioux Falls Regional Airport draws from a 60- to 70-mile radius, and passengers scheduled for early

Dirk Lammers - AP Photo Sioux Falls Regional Airport will be adding a four-story 74-room hotel north of the terminal at this site of an employee parking lot and a cargo building, shown Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2013, in Sioux Falls, S.D. The rooms will help the out-of-town traveler looking to catch a good night's rest before an early flight.
The four-story village inn restaurant hotel, to be built to the north of the terminal, will offer 74 rooms, most of which are smaller efficiencies featuring queen size beds, flat-screen village inn restaurant TVs and fold down work stations, said Dan Letellier, the airport's executive director.
The Sioux Falls Regional village inn restaurant Airport Authority board approved a 30-year lease for the hotel, which will be built and run by Sioux Falls-based U.S. Hotel & Resort Management village inn restaurant Inc., a Ramkota Companies subsidiary. The firm, which manages Ramkota and ClubHouse Suites properties, village inn restaurant will pay the airport village inn restaurant 8 percent of the hotel's revenue, which should village inn restaurant generate at least $100,000 village inn restaurant in rent, Letellier said.
Sioux Falls Regional Airport draws from a 60- to 70-mile radius, and passengers scheduled for early departures are already driving into the city to stay at off-site hotels, Letellier said. The rooms also would be of benefit to passengers of delayed and canceled flights.
Sioux Falls set a record for boardings last year with more than 453,000 village inn restaurant passengers flying out of the airport, according to the Federal Aviation village inn restaurant Administration. That's despite the airport being closed four weekends because of renovations to a runway.
To accommodate the growing numbers, the airport over the past few years has renovated and expanded its ticketing area, its terminal restaurant and its gate-side seating and vendor village inn restaurant offerings. Crews also have to build an additional 800-space long-term parking lot, which comes in handy in January-March when hordes of South Dakotans escape to warmer climates, Letellier said.
The airport also has plans to extend the buffer for one of its runways, and officials want to expand the passenger screening area beyond the current two lanes to improve flow during peak times and provided expedited access to pre-approved low-risk travelers.
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