JACKSON, Miss. -- The Jackson-Medgar Wiley Evers International Airport is preparing for life after Southwest Airlines. The airline will shut down in Jackson on June 7 after 20 years.
One results of that departure is to delay security checkpoint upgrades and improvements to the concourse after a downgrading of the airport's revenue bonds by Fitch Rating Service.
Fitch says the loss of the airport's second-largest carrier could bring higher fees to airlines and higher costs to passengers. Some of those increases have already taken effect.
Dirk Vanderleest, Airport Authority executive director, told the Mississippi Business Journal (http://bit.ly/1kpHyvg) delaying the projects by up to 12 months keeps the debt off the books as Fitch Ratings makes further evaluations of the Airport Authority's credit worthiness.
Southwest represents 27 percent of available seats in Jackson.
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