Airport News.American Airlines American Airlines Major U.S. airline. American was created through a merger of several smaller U.S. airlines and incorporated in 1934. It continued to buy the routes of other airlines, becoming an international carrier in the 1970s; its routes include South America, the , Southwest Airlines This article is about the American airline. For the former Japanese airline, see Japan Transocean Air. For the British airline, see Air Southwest. Southwest Airlines Co. Carriers should participate in Wright talks. American Airlines and Southwest Airlines should participate in talks to modify or repeal the Wright Amendment, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram The Fort Worth Star-Telegram is a major U.S. daily newspaper serving Fort Worth and the western half of the North Texas area known as the Metroplex. Its area of domination is checked by its main rival, The Dallas Morning News writes. However, the two carriers should have limited influence over any agreement reached between Dallas and Fort Worth officials, the newspaper writes. Mar 15, 2006 Berlin airport Berlin looks like finally having a new state of the art international airport by 2011 following a federal court's decision to allow the expansion of the current Schoenefeld into Brandenburg International. The decision means that Berlin's famous city center Tempelhof Airport is again under a closure cloud and that Tegel will certainly close when the new Brandenburg officially opens. Although the court said it saw no legal reason why the E2.5bn project to develop the former East Berlin airport should not proceed, it placed restrictions on night flights, including prohibiting landings after 2200 hours, and noise pollution. These limitations may yet cause problems. At least Schoenefeld does have an existing direct rail link into the city. http://www.berlin-airport.de Mar 19, 2006 Buenos Aires Buenos Aires (bwā`nəs ī`rēz, âr`ēz, Span. bwā`nōs ī`rās), city and federal district (1991 pop. airport Buenos Aires may well have direct flights from the Middle East by this time next year. Emirates has made serious noises that it would like to introduce direct services, either nonstop which would mean a 17/18 hour flight, or via South Africa South Africa, Afrikaans Suid-Afrika, officially Republic of South Africa, republic (2005 est. pop. 44,344,000), 471,442 sq mi (1,221,037 sq km), S Africa. with fifth freedom operations. Negotiations are said to be going on with the SA authorities who would appear to be concerned that a similar scenario might emerge to that of Australia/New Zealand where Emirates are allowed to originate passengers at both ends of the Tasman Sea Tasman Sea, arm of the S Pacific Ocean between Australia and New Zealand; named for Dutch explorer Abel Tasman. Sydney, Australia, is the largest city on the sea. crossing, much to the concern of both Qantas and Air New Zealand Parameter not given Error... ''Template needs its first parameter as beg[in], mid[dle], or end. Parameter not given Error... . http://www.emirates.com Mar 19, 2006 Dallas Fort Worth airport Lawmaker sticks with June 1 deadline for Wright. A lawmaker who supports the repeal of the Wright Amendment hopes a solution to the dispute is reached by June 1. Rep. Jeb Hensarling Jebediah Hensarling (born May 29, 1957), American politician, has been the Republican congressman representing the Texas Texas's 5th congressional district (map) in the United States House of Representatives since 2003. , R-Texas, has co-authored a bill that would repeal Wright. The Dallas City Council and Fort Worth City Council have set deadlines of June 14 and Aug. 1, respectively. Mar 16, 2006 London Stansted airport London Stansted Airport (IATA: STN, ICAO: EGSS) is a large passenger airport with a single runway and hub for a number of major European low-cost airlines. London[sup.1]s Stansted airport has become the first BAA airport to offer "The Cloud" open platform WiFi. By the end of March all six BAA airports will offer the system. The Cloud's BAA networks will cover all major public seating and retail areas in both departure and arrival zones. The networks are designed to meet the needs of both business and leisure travelers with an innovative range of Cloud PayGo vouchers for between 30 minutes and 24 hours. All vouchers will be valid in any of the 6,000 Cloud UK estates (estates being the new 'buzzword' for supported areas). In addition to vouchers, The Cloud also provides connectivity for its wide range of UK service providers, which include Nintendo WiFi Connection, Skype, O2, BT Openzone BT Openzone is the name given to a network of Wi-Fi hotspots deployed in part by British Telecom. These hotspots are generally deployed in cafés, hotels, stations and airports, however anybody wishing to deploy a hotspot can purchase "Openzone in a Box" directly from BT. and credEcard, whose users can now access WiFi at BAA airports using their existing accounts. The system is compatible with US service providers Sprint and Boingo. Clients of those systems can instantly log in when arriving at a BAA airport. http://www.baa.co.uk Mar 19, 2006 Nav Canada Nav Canada hopes to reduce Atlantic separation. Nav Canada will use advanced air-traffic control technology to reduce aircraft separation standards on North Atlantic routes within the next two years. The company will work with airlines and the U.K.'s National Air Traffic Services NATS, (formerly "National Air Traffic Services Ltd."), is the United Kingdom's main air navigation service provider. A full member of the Civil Air Navigation Services Organisation, NATS is also a shareholder in European Satellite Services Provider . The company believes separation standards could be cut by up to one-half. Mar 17, 2006 NAV Canada NAV Canada announced a tentative agreement with the Canadian Auto Workers/Air Traffic Specialists. The four-year deal covers 850 flight service specialists. No details of the agreement were released pending ratification. Mar 14, 2006 OneWorld alliance Oneworld carriers to consolidate operations at Heathrow's Terminal 3. Oneworld and BAA signed an MOU (Minutes Of Usage) A metric used to compute billing and/or statistics for telephone calls or other network use. ensuring consolidation of the alliance members' operations at London Heathrow's new Terminal 5, to be occupied by British Airways, and an upgraded Terminal 3.Currently, oneworld carriers are split across all four Heathrow terminals. They account for more than 50% of LHR's traffic, with 35 million passengers per year onboard around 700 departures and arrivals each day. Mar 14, 2006 Oneworld's co-location at London Heathrow will follow the transfer of its carriers serving Madrid Barajas into that airport's new [euro]6 billion Terminal 4 in February. "Oneworld aims to bring the operations of our member airlines together at all key airports around the world wherever it make sense and is possible," Managing Partner John McCulloch said. Mar 14, 2006 Orlando airport Orlando airport extends shuttle agreement. Orlando International Airport “KMCO” redirects here. For other uses, see KMCO (disambiguation). “MCO” redirects here. For other uses, see MCO (disambiguation). Orlando International Airport (IATA: MCO, ICAO: KMCO, FAA LID: MCO)[2] extended its express shuttle agreement with Walt Disney World Noun 1. Walt Disney World - a large amusement park established in 1971 to the southwest of Orlando Orlando - a city in central Florida; site of Walt Disney World for five years. The shuttle takes visitors from the airport to the Disney resort. Mar 16, 2006 Orlando airport board to discuss Disney shuttle. The board that oversees Orlando International Airport will discuss Disney's Magical Express shuttle and baggage service this week. The free service began moving passengers and luggage between Disney resorts and the airport. Rental-car firms, taxis and limo services say they have lost money because of the service. 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