Three websites for one airport authority, rebuilt on one platform, with live travel data up front and the airport’s day-to-day tools built in.
At a glance
Client
Mesa Gateway Airport Authority
Sites
gatewayairport.com for travelers, choosegatewayairport.com for business and economic development, and gatewayfbo.com for Gateway Aviation Services
Launched
September 2026
Platform
Foxtrot, built on WordPress
The challenge
Mesa Gateway’s three websites ran on an in-house system more than six years old, and only administrators could change much of anything. The airport had recently changed its name, and outside sites were still repeating old information about its services, so helping search engines see the airport clearly mattered. The old sites didn’t have a sitemap for search engines to follow. Vendors who wanted to bid on airport work had to email someone to get on the vendor list.
The authority asked for one design across all three sites, copy rewritten to be short and clear, WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility, and websites its own team could keep current.
The work
We built all three sites on Foxtrot with one shared design system, each tuned for its audience.
- Live travel data on the home page. Flight status, security wait estimates and parking by lot. Staff can set parking levels and closures, and adjust security waits, whenever a feed needs a hand.
- Getting around. An accessible interactive terminal and campus map with 59 facilities, a route map and a nonstop destinations list.
- A procurement center built from scratch. Vendors sign up online for the categories they work in and register to download bid documents. Staff send each addendum to every plan holder with one click, vendors can opt in to closing-date reminders, and every download and email is logged.
- For pilots. Current fuel prices and an aircraft fee estimator covering more than 680 aircraft.
- For businesses. A directory of the companies on the airport’s campus.
- Emergency alerts that staff publish from a ready-made template, live on every page in about 30 seconds.
- Accessible documents. Every PDF is checked the moment it’s uploaded, and a PDF can be turned into an accessible web page.
- Analytics without cookies, so visitors aren’t tracked across the web and no cookie banner is needed.
- A traveler chat assistant in English and Spanish, with an Insights screen that shows staff what travelers ask.
Three sites, one design system
The results
- Three sites, one platform and one design system.
- Shorter, clearer pages, rewritten in plain language.
- More than 150 public documents, organized and searchable.
- Built and tested to WCAG 2.1 AA, the Title II standard, with automated tools and by hand.
- Vendors sign themselves up, and every plan holder gets each addendum by email.
- Staff keep the site current themselves, from parking levels to emergency alerts.
- No analytics cookies, and no cookie banner.
