...in creating and growing passenger traffic at COS, the city had to add another long term parking lot, and they actually added 5 more gates to accommodate extra flights with anticipation that WestPac would continue their expansion while also continuing to keep Colorado Springs as their hub. They were filling planes and adding destinations at ticket prices that undercut the Denver-based airlines enough to have large numbers of travelers who usually flew out of DEN to drive (or shuttle) to COS to warrant the COS airport facilities expansions. The added long term parking lot was added quickly and at little cost on existing city-owned airport property. Adding the five additional gates meant building what amounted to another concourse, attached to, but east of, the main terminal. The extra gates cost the city quite a few millions of dollars. I don't think any of those additional gates have ever been used because Gaylord thought moving their hub from COS to DEN was in their best interest right about the time the construction of the additional gates at COS was completed. They totally screwed the city of Colorado Springs with that move. I have serious doubts about the wiki content claiming that WestPac was losing money while based at COS. In fact, I'll say with confidence that such a claim is an outright lie. They may have been getting over their heads in debt by buying new airplanes, but they were filling every plane they flew into and out of here. Moving the hub to Denver is what killed them.