The El Paso Butterfield airport golf course. | https://www.facebook.com/Butterfieldtrail/photos/a.380045511651/10155464115626652/?type=3&theater
The El Paso Butterfield airport golf course. | https://www.facebook.com/Butterfieldtrail/photos/a.380045511651/10155464115626652/?type=3&theater
The El Paso Butterfield Trail airport golf course is closing, permanently, due to COVID-19. The decision to cease operations at the golf course was made in order to save the El Paso International Airport $1 million a year in expenses.
The Butterfield Trail golf course has been owned and operated and funded by the El Paso International Airport since 2008 and will close May 31. The course has been losing money each year.
“It is with a heavy heart that the fiscally responsible decision to permanently close the course was made," Monica Lombraña, the airport's chief operations and transportation officer, said in a statement to CBS 4.
"Those of us who are golfers are very saddened to see Butterfield Trail closing," El Paso Mayor Dee Margo said in a news conference, as reported by the El Paso Times. "It’s purely a cost factor because we have too many other services that need to be maintained at the airport, as well as our city services."
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