FBOs
Bizav Airport Profile: Michigan’s Oakland County International/pontiac (PTK)
Located approximately 25 nm northwest of downtown Detroit and 12 sm from DaimlerChrysler’s North American headquarters, Oakland County International Airpor

Located approximately 25 nm northwest of downtown Detroit and 12 sm from DaimlerChrysler’s North American headquarters, Oakland County International Airport (PTK), aka Pontiac, has become to Detroit what Scottsdale is to Phoenix–the premier corporate aviation airport in the area. With three runways, the longest at 6,200 feet, Pontiac can accommodate aircraft up to the size of Boeing 757s.

Eight FBOs serve the airport, and all of them sell jet fuel, which creates fierce competition and artificially low prices. Although the airport averages 760 operations per day–about 200 more than either Scottsdale, Ariz., with its three FBOs, or Teterboro, N.J., with its five FBOs–Pontiac personnel say the traffic level is too low to support all of the FBOs the county allows.

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