American Eagle will add a second daily nonstop flight between Quad Cities International Airport in Moline, Ill., and Dallas/Ft. Worth International Airport in August. The carrier began daily service between the cities earlier this month.
MicroStrategy announced that the US Transportation Security Administration's Office of Strategic Management and Analysis, part of the US Dept. of Homeland Security, implemented the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform to analyze transportation security operations at commercial airports nationwide. The solution was implemented by BearingPoint Inc.
Continental Airlines will begin new weekly nonstop service between Houston George Bush Intercontinental Airport and Bonaire in the Netherlands Antilles Dec. 16 using a 737 in a two-class configuration.
Singapore Airlines will launch a six-times-weekly service between Bangkok and Tokyo in September, giving travelers the option of stopping off in the Thai city en route to Japan or Singapore.
FAA Air Traffic personnel at the Dallas/Fort Worth Terminal Radar Approach Control Center "systematically covered up operational errors" for several years but FAA now has corrected the situation, the US Office of the Special Counsel stated Friday. OSC became aware of the activity through the actions of an 18-year air traffic controller at the facility who told the office that many incidents of separation errors were neither reported nor investigated. The DOT Office of the Inspector General was asked by OSC to investigate and confirmed that the controller's allegations were true.
FAA said controllers at the New York Air Route Traffic Control Center are using the Advanced Technologies and Oceanic Procedures system designed and integrated by Lockheed Martin that automatically detects conflicts between aircraft and provides satellite data link communication and position information to controllers. Using ATOP, controllers will be able to reduce horizontal separation between aircraft from 100 nm to 30 nm. "The system helps the airlines save fuel while maintaining the highest standards of safety for transoceanic flights," said FAA Administrator Marion Blakey.
L-3 Communications Security & Detection Systems received an order to provide New Bangkok International Airport, which is expected to handle more than 700,000 tons of cargo each year, with two CX-3800G high-energy x-ray cargo inspection systems. They will be deployed at the NBIA Cargo Free Zone IT Project with AMR Asia Co. Ltd.
Delta Air Lines and Delta Connection carrier Atlantic Southeast Airlines both will begin seasonal daily nonstop service between Salt Lake City and Steamboat Springs. ASA will operate flights on the route from Sept. 10 through Dec. 16, while Delta will operate mainline service between the cities from Dec. 17 through April 1.
American Eagle Airlines will launch two daily nonstop flights between Gulfport-Biloxi International and Dallas/Ft. Worth International Oct. 30 using 50-seat ERJ-145s.
National Air Traffic Services named Marconi Chairman John Devaney as its nonexecutive chairman. He will succeed Chris Gibson-Smith, who will retire on Aug. 31. Devaney, 58, will join the board from July 1 and become chairman Sept. 1.
Hooters Air will begin nonstop service from Allentown and Myrtle Beach to Orlando on July 9. The airline also will begin new nonstop service to Chicago/Rockford from Myrtle Beach on July 14.
Frankfurt Airport said it will become the world's first airport to operate a shared network of common-use self-service kiosks for passenger check-in and other services for all airlines and other partners following an agreement between Frankfurt CUTE Club and SITA. Initially the airport will deploy eight CUSS kiosks and the service will begin this fall.
Korean Air and Japan Airlines expanded their codeshare agreement to include Korean Air's three weekly Incheon-Kagoshima flights and JAL's three weekly Incheon-Hiroshima flights. With the expansion, the carriers' codeshare arrangement now covers six cities and 76 weekly flights.
Slovak government plans to sell 66% of its holdings in both of the country's international airports at Bratislava and Kosice by year end, the country's transportation minister said last week. The remaining 34% stakes will stay state-owned. Bratislava has seen a sharp increase in passenger traffic in the past few years primarily because of Slovakian low-cost carrier SkyEurope.
Basel Airport opened a new facility it dubbed the South Terminal on June 7. This represented the last of several infrastructure investments totaling €230 million ($278.1 million) that have been completed at the airport over the past seven years. Basel expects 3.4 million passengers for 2005, up 900,000 from 2004. EasyJet, which is basing four A319s at Basel from mid-June, will increase its network from the multinational airport in phases during the summer to 13 destinations and expects to carry 1.5 million passengers in its first year there.
