Airport Leadership

Airport Director
Tony Rudy

Tony Rudy is the Airport Manager at the Salisbury Regional Airport (SBY) in Maryland and has held this position since June 2020. He was Assistant Airport Manager at SBY for a year immediately prior to this appointment. Tony began his airport management career at the Binghamton Regional Airport in upstate New York in May, 1992, as an Airport Operations Specialist with ARFF, EMT, and Alternate Airport Security Coordinator duties. He served as an Airport Operations Officer and as an assistant to the Deputy Airport Director, Operations, at John Wayne Airport, Orange County, CA from 1996 until 2000.

Tony then served as the Assistant Airport Manager for the Ithaca Tompkins Regional Airport in Ithaca, NY from January 2000 until November 2016. He then moved on to be the Director of Operations for the Elmira Corning Regional Airport in NY from November, 2016 until January 2019. He has been significantly involved with disaster preparedness, emergency management, airport security, and airport construction projects throughout his career. Tony earned BS in Aviation Management/Flight Operations from Daniel Webster College in Nashua, NH in 1990. He attained his Private Pilot Certificate in 1986.