New Leadership Team at Laughlin Bullhead International Airport
New Leaders New Contacts
Contact Info:
Jeremy Keating, C.M., C.A.E. Email Jeremy at - jkeating@laughlinbullheadintlairport.com
Two experienced airport management professionals have assumed top duties at Laughlin/Bullhead International Airport (IFP/KIFP) and its parent Mohave County Airport Authority. Jeremy Keating, the assistant airport director since September 2011, has succeeded long-time aviation director David C. Gaines following his retirement. Keating’s previous position has been filled by Guillio Minguillo following a nationwide search.
Keating is responsible for all day-to-day operations at what has become one of the busiest non-metropolitan commercial airports serving Arizona, Nevada and portions of southern California. As his deputy, Minguillo supervises and directs airport administrative staff, the airport’s rescue and firefighting personnel, maintenance crews and serves as the airport security coordinator.
“Dave Gaines and his team revamped Laughlin/Bullhead International into the award-winning airport it has become,” said Airport Authority Board of Directors President John Hastings. “Jeremy and Guillio are now able to move us into a new generation, both literally and figuratively.”
Both are certified members of the American Association of Airport Executives (AAAE). Keating is a certified airport executive (CAE) by the Southwest Chapter of the AAAE. Each has more than 12 years of airport front-line, supervisory and management experience.
Keating joined Laughlin/Bullhead International from the Davenport, Iowa, Municipal Airport, where he was airport manager. He previously held airport operations positions with progressive responsibility at Midland International Airport in Texas, as well as Gillespie Field, John Wayne Airport and San Jose International Airport in El Cajon, Santa Ana and San Jose, California, respectively. While completing his bachelor’s degree in aviation management at St. Cloud University in Minnesota, he also worked for Mesaba Airlines and Northwest Airlines, now both part of Delta Air Lines.
Minguillo earned a bachelor’s degree in aviation administration from Indiana State University, and almost immediately was an operations supervisor at Tweed-New Haven Regional Airport in Connecticut. He spent most of the next nine years at one of the country’s busiest general aviation airports, Teterboro Airport, in Teterboro, New Jersey, rising to assistant manager of airport operations, before accepting his new role at Laughlin/Bullhead International.
The two also hold pilot licenses: Keating for helicopters, while Minguillo holds instrument and commercial ratings in fixed wing aircraft.