Why Did Airlines Stop Operating Commercial Flights at Safford Airport? The $800,000 Safety Glitch
Posted on April 1, 2026 by Lawton Calloway
The tarmac at Safford Regional Airport is back to being a quiet stretch of asphalt. For a hot minute in early 2025, it looked like the Gila Valley finally broke its fifty-year streak of being flyover country. You could actually walk into the terminal, bypass the three-hour “Phoenix slog” on the highway, and be at […]