Articles Tagged: The Eastern Iowa Airport

Regional carrier served Cedar Rapids from 1957 to 1986

In Cedar Rapids, travelers are advised that connecting flights may be affected by the shutdown order.

A total of 128,357 passengers flew through CID in September 2025, an increase of 3.2 percent when compared to the same month last year.

The decision follows similar moves at airports across the country, who are broadly citing a desire to remain out of partisan politics.

Nebraska man pleaded to causing a Detroit bound flight to be diverted to Cedar Rapids when he tried to open a SkyWest plane’s exit door and then became combative with the flight crew and passengers.

Alliant Energy, which has been exploring building a new power plant in Fairfax — a proposal that was met with resistance from some residents and officials at The Eastern Iowa Airport — said in a statement to the city that it is “deprioritizing” the Fairfax location.

It was “the most terrifying thing” Nathan Mencke, an air traffic controller at The Eastern Iowa Airport, had ever experienced. One year ago, he helped guide a pilot out of a stall-spin to land safely in Iowa City.

Alliant Energy’s plans for a natural gas fired power plant northwest of The Eastern Iowa Airport raise “concerns for airport safety and regulatory compliance,” according to a study commissioned by the Cedar Rapids Airport Commission.

The Fairfax City Council, in a heated meeting Tuesday, approved the first reading of a proposed exception to the city’s industrial zoning code which could provide a path for Alliant Energy to build a new power plant within city limits.

The City of Fairfax will consider a change to its zoning code that would provide a path for Alliant Energy to site a gas-fired power plant within city limits, near The Eastern Iowa Airport.

Alliant Energy has said there are other potential locations being considered for a new power plant, but the company’s representatives declined to share those locations with the Cedar Rapids Airport Commission because disclosing the other sites could put the company in a “negative position from a cost perspective.”

The Eastern Iowa Airport Commission says proposed site could jeopardize future runway, seeks alternative location and public meeting.

Members of the Cedar Rapids airport commission raised concerns this morning after an apparent plan by Alliant Energy to construct a gas-fired power plant on land adjacent to their Travero warehouse in Fairfax.

A Nebraska man, who tried to open exit doors during a flight from Omaha last week and caused an emergency landing in Cedar Rapids, will remain in jail pending trial. A detention hearing didn’t go forward because he didn’t have a place to stay if released.

The pilot instructed passengers over the intercom to stay in their seats and follow flight attendant instructions, and also asked any passengers who were willing and able to help the flight attendants subdue Nikprelaj.