Out To Lunch - New Orleans Business Podcast

It’s New Orleans: Out to Lunch

Hosted ByPeter Ricchiuti

Tulane University A.B. Freeman School of Business finance professor Peter Ricchiuti holds court over lunch at Columns in Uptown New Orleans. Peter's lunch guests are New Orleans business people, from startups to CEO's, from artists to tech entrepreneurs, musicians to movers-and-shakers. New Orleans is on everybody's list as a great place to party but it's also on many lists of the best place to start a business. Peter's deeply knowledgable and equally levity-laden approach to business conversation neatly makese sense of the Crescent City's contradictions.

Flying Into Lakefront – Out to Lunch – It’s New Orleans

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In New Orleans when we talk about “going to the airport” we automatically assume we’re talking about Louis Armstrong Airport in Kenner. But there’s another airport. In Orleans Parish.

Lakefront Airport is over 80 years old. Not all those years have been great for business. For some of them the airport was boarded up. Today, Lakefront might finally be lining up for take off.

ben morris

The airport’s latest Director of Aviation is not the kind of guy you’d describe as a seat-warmer. More like a seat-kicker. Ex Mayor of Slidell Ben Morris now heads up Lakefront Airport.

 Brayton Matthews

Brayton Matthews is General Manager of an aviation company based at Lakefront, called Flightline First.

peter ricchiuti, brayton matthews, ben morris

Ben and Brayton join Peter Ricchiuti to talk over the future of Lakefront Airport, from fighting FEMA over flood prevention to plans for the airport to be a jumping off poiint to Havana. 

Photos at Commander’s Palace by Alison Moon. 

Realtor Tracey Moore