The Columbus Airport was awarded the 2020 Air Carrier Airport Safety Award within the FAA Southern Region which consists of eight states to include Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida with a total of seventy commercial service airports.

The FAA Southern Region Airports Division Safety Awards program allows the division to recognize air carrier airports that have taken actions, instituted programs, or otherwise operated in such a manner deserving of special recognition for improving airport safety. Selection criteria for the Air Carrier Airport Safety Award are based on the development or implementation of a specific program or activity, or other special and unique accomplishments, involving the operation of an air carrier airport that resulted in enhanced safety.

During 2020 the airport implemented several initiatives to improve the safety of the airfield for all users to include consistent phraseology, identifying movement boundaries, established location quadrants to help set clear expectations and formulate a consistent understanding of the airfield and its boundaries. Practical driver training was augmented and additional directional and location signs on the reverse side of the current airfield signs were installed providing greater taxiway/intersection awareness.

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