Purdue University Airport

We don’t need wings to fly!
Neil Armstrong didn’t use a plane! Great people come from Purdue!
It’s exciting to know Purdue has an airport. I love that one of the engineering students shared photos — it’s officially real! I say this because Purdue is tops for engineering and the only students/​alumni/​community here that I know of to have ever gone here are the Aviation Engineering & Electrical Engineering students. Perhaps a few other majors that would be involved. I would DREAM of the day the students, alumni, and local community could actually travel flights from here. I could be there in ten minutes. It takes a little over 1 hour to get to the Indianapolis Airport, then a little over 2 hours to get to Chicago’s Midway airport, and a about 3 hours to O’Hare airport. I generally stick with Indy and find my crossovers are commonly at O’hare (or Atlanta of course since Delta HQ is located there & is rated the top airline for customer service). This Purdue Airport would be a HUGE help to fly from here even an expensive flight as a connection to any of those other three nearby airports. Many students at Purdue are International and would be thrilled to book a flight from here on campus than to pay expensive bus or the brutal, lately unreliable, Amtrak to the Indianapolis or Chicago Airports.
Overall, at Purdue there are a ton of genius engineering major students (Neil Armstrong, heck yeah) that are the ones I see go here. They study and get fly the smaller jet planes when approved I believe depending on major and level of «Master/​PhD» engineers linked to aviation engineering do actually get to fly — fun! (I’ll have to hunt my alum friends down. You don’t see the engineering majors partying at Purdue. They are studying hard often & are more often than not friendly introverted great fellas).
There are no commercial flights from here. Bummer. The problem is no client airline will do business with them as the connecting flight to Chicago because of a history of fails to be able to hold reliable over the past 20 years. It would cost 2 million up front for an airline client to sign with them… Bummer. So support small business! This is Indiana’s second largest airport (probably ONLY other airport along with Indianapolis). I would find it beyond convenient to be able to fly from here and the huge number of international students could benefit too (not just locals and alumni!). It would be so cool if Purdue Airport could be more than just for studying the majors involved but also to fly out from! That would be so convenient for commercial flights to be available right here at Purdue. But yea, there is an airport here. Someday then plans are to offer commercial flights… Just not to be expected any time soon (sadly).
Overall, Purdue has an airport! We just can’t FLY from there yet. Someday it will happen! In the passing time… Study on brilliant engineers! «We are Purdue. What we make moves the world forward»
Boiler Up! Hammer Down!