Gina Marie Lindsey has been tapped by Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to be the new executive director of Los Angeles World Airports, replacing Lydia Kennard, who resigned in January.
Bombardier logged more CRJ-900 orders after Tatarstan Airlines ordered six of the aircraft and took options on four more. The carrier is based in Kazan, Republic of Tatarstan Russia.
A reconstituted Network Enabled Operations (NEO) demonstration has shown senior U.S. government officials once again how tightly linked ATC systems could help controllers and command centers spot a 9-11 style attack on Washington, D.C.
Several associations are asking House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman James Oberstar (D-Minn.) and ranking member John Mica (R-Fla.) for increased levels of Passenger Facility Charges and more Airport Improvement Program grants, in the FAA reauthorization bill.
30 Years Ago May 13, 1977 -- A U.S. District Court ruled The Federal Aviation Act of 1958 gives the federal government the right to authorize Concorde landings at New York Kennedy to test the aircraft. Port Authority has banned the aircraft, citing concerns about noise pollution. 20 Years Ago
Seven airports and airlines have reached agreements with registered traveler service providers and are ready to launch their programs, said John Martinez, director of the Transportation Security Administration's RT program office. Another six airports have released requests for proposal to actively solicit RT service providers, and 20 airports will be participating in the program by the end of Fiscal Year 2008, he said at the American Association of Airport Executives' RT conference.
Another sign that the FAA realizes the U.S. ATC system will be in trouble long before the Next Gen completion date, 2025, is that the agency's Operational Evolution Plan now targets "mid-term" upgrades between 2012 and 2018, vs. the original target, 2015. The 2012 date was set to motivate early Next Gen improvements, OEP Director Gisele Mohler tells The DAILY, and mid-term activity won't be completed by 2015 because several key projects come to fruition after that.
Alternative fuels and new technologies such as the NextGen system are the keys to reducing the aviation industry's carbon emissions, Transportation Secretary Mary Peters said Friday testimony before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.
FAA plans this summer to rebaseline the cost estimates for its automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast program, the DOT Inspector General says. The current ADS-B estimate is $1.2 billion. Also, FAA may have to "rely on a rulemaking initiative to help speed ADS-B...equipage," the IG notes.
Midwest Airlines' chief executive is giving kudos to SkyWest, noting the service its new regional partner started in April was exceeding Midwest's expectations.
Frontier CFO Paul Tate tells analysts he's "personally sort of excited," about the carrier's discontinuing Los Angeles-San Francisco and San Francisco-Las Vegas service July 10 "because it is going to help my CASM." Noting that expenses have doubled in Los Angeles, Tate says dropping the expensive short-haul market "is going to help our P&L (profit and loss)" in the near term.
A consortium led by Germany's Hochtief AirPort GmbH has signed a deal to buy BAA's shares in Budapest Airport for EUR1.9 billion (US$2.4 billion) after receiving final approval from the Hungarian government. The sale is part of Ferrovial's strategy to sell several international holdings, including Budapest, Sydney and Bristol airports, to reduce debt acquired with its purchase of BAA in June 2006.
FAA and the European Commission plan a North Atlantic ATC demonstration with airline aircraft using environmentally friendly procedures, including in-trail climbs to optimum altitudes and continuous-descent approaches for near-idle operations from cruise to landing. Industry officials familiar with the plan expect European Transport Commissioner Jacques Barrot and FAA Administrator Marion Blakey to announce it at the Paris Air Show.
JetBlue's Board of Directors earlier this week elevated President Dave Barger to CEO, making founder CEO David Neeleman non-executive chairman of the board. A carrier spokesman characterized the board's decision as "part of a larger realigning of our leadership structure that has been taking place over the last year, a natural evolution from a startup to a $3 billion company." Trey Urbhan joined in November as chief revenue officer from on-demand private jet provider OneSky Jets.
The European Commission on May 16 is expected to propose Galileo be entirely financed with public funds and deployed by the European Space Agency (ESA), after the consortium of private companies holding the concession for the global satellite navigation system missed the May 10 deadline to agree on Galileo's financing and management. European Transport Commissioner Jacques Barrot gave the consortiums the May 10 deadline in March (DAILY, March 23).
