Upcoming sporting events and fall festival season in Door County are just some of the reasons why you will notice more people taking to the sky to northeast Wisconsin in the coming weeks. Green Bay’s Austin Straubel Airport has slowly seen its air traffic rise as the country recovers from the pandemic. Airport Director Marty Piette says they are at about 80 percent of what they were doing before the pandemic brought much of the country to a standstill. Events like this weekend’s home opener for the Green Bay Packers and next week’s Ryder Cup at Whistling Straits in Kohler will keep its fixed-based operators busy with private and charter flights landing in Green Bay. In addition to Packers home games in October, Piette expects the airport to be busy with day-trippers wanting to check out the fall colors and Door County’s fall festivals like Egg Harbor Pumpkin Patch and Sister Bay Fall Fest.

Piette reminds air travelers that even though traffic is building back up to normal, there are plenty of aspects that are not normal as of yet. You have to mask up inside the airport and on flights in accordance with federal guidelines and some landing spots do not have all of their amenities open for travelers.