Airports
Midway Island Airport operation in jeopardy
Midway Phoenix of Cartersville, Ga., operates Midway Island Airport (MDY), some 1,200 mi northwest of Honolulu.

Midway Phoenix of Cartersville, Ga., operates Midway Island Airport (MDY), some 1,200 mi northwest of Honolulu. Early last month Midway Phoenix informed its 150 employees that it would cease passenger operations to the island’s ecotourist resort and cancel its contract with Aloha Airlines, following a departing flight on March 2. Midway Phoenix has operated at the former World War II Naval Air Facility since July 1996 under a 20-year lease with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), but is blaming financial losses of more than $15 million on environmental costs imposed by the government, in concert with a poor economy.

The airport is variously known by its former Navy name of NAF Midway, as well as Henderson Field, Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge or Sand Island Airport, after the largest in the three-island atoll on which it is located.