Airport News.For more airport news, data and analysis, please go to: http://www.airguideonline.com/order_formsubs.htm Jul 24, 2006 Akron-Canton More car rental options at Akron-Canton. CAK CAK CDk Activating Kinase CAK Christian Academy of Knoxville CAK Akron/Canton, OH, USA - Akron-Canton Regional Airport (Airport Code) CAK Christopher Allen Kirkpatrick (NSYNC) recently doubled the number of on-site car rental companies, going from four to eight. Choose from among: Alamo, Avis, Budget, Dollar, Enterprise, Hertz, National and Thrift. Jul 17, 2006 BAGS Got a meeting at Chicago's McCormick Place? You can save a bit of time by using the convention center's new remote skycap service. Check your luggage, get a seat assignment and a boarding pass for $10. The service is operated by an outfit called BAGS. The company transports your luggage to the airport, where it's screened by TSA TSA See tax-sheltered annuity (TSA). . The only catch: You've got to be flying out of O'Hare. Jul 17, 2006 Bangkok Airports Bangkok Airports saga should come to an end on Thursday September 28 when the existing Don Muang will close and the new, futuristic Suvarnabhumi will open. All this is confirmed by Thailand caretaker Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. He says that all systems at the new Bangkok airport had been completed, and tests had been a success. However some have been simulated. Next Saturday, 29 July, six domestic airlines will undertake flight tests followed on the Monday by Thai International. From 0300 on 28 September the current Don Muang Airport will stop serving regular commercial services and will only handle chartered, VIP, private and military flights. http://www.suvarnabhumiairport.com Jul 22, 2006 Budapest Airport Hungary Earmarks Cash For Airport Lawsuit. Hungary has set aside up to HUF HUF In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Hungarian Forint. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. 70 billion forints (USD USD In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the U.S. Dollar. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. $321.8 million) for potential damages in a lawsuit brought by a Canadian airport operator after the government effectively denationalized Budapest Airport, a newspaper reported on Friday. Jul 21, 2006 Charlotte Got to get some work done at Charlotte and an airport club doesn't work for you? Consider CLT's Airport Business Center. It's sponsored by Bank of America
Bank of America (NYSE: BAC TYO: 8648 ) is the largest commercial bank in the United States in terms of deposits, and the largest company of its kind in the world. . You'll find it in the atrium, and it's open from 6:30 a.m. through 9:00 p.m. Jul 17, 2006 Cincinnati/ Northern Kentucky Trace portal machines have found their way to security checkpoints at Cincinnati/ Northern Kentucky International. If you're pulled out of line for additional screening you'll be directed to a telephone booth-sized machine, asked to stand still for a bit, and then spritzed with air. The idea is to see if you're carrying, or have been in contact with, explosives. As this reporter found out recently in Boston, the procedure is minimally invasive. However, it can, when employed on an across-the-board basis, slow security considerabl. Jul 17, 2006 Dallas Love Terminal Partners Love Terminal Partners, a group that owns the vacant Legend Airlines terminal at Dallas Love Field This article is about the airport. For the neighborhood, see Love Field, Dallas, Texas (Neighborhood). Dallas Love Field (IATA: DAL, ICAO: KDAL, FAA LID: DAL , filed suit in a US court Monday to block the deal forged by Dallas, Fort Worth, American Airlines and Southwest Airlines to gradually 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 reported that LTP LTP Long Term Potentiation LTP Local Transport Plan LTP Laptop LTP Linux Test Project LTP Liturgy Training Publications LTP Long Term Prediction LTP Last Traded Price LTP Learning Technologies Project (NASA) LTP Long Term Plan alleged the agreement violated antitrust law antitrust law Any law restricting business practices that are considered unfair or monopolistic. Among U.S. laws, the best known is the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, which declared illegal “every contract, combination…or conspiracy in restraint of trade or and compromised the value of the terminal, which the group has been attempting to sell to Pinnacle Airlines for $100 million. "The two dominant carriers in North Texas agreed not to compete," LTP attorney Bill Brewer told the Star-Telegram. "They're agreeing to stay out of each other's backyards, and that means consumers will have to put up with higher prices to travel." JetBlue Airways and Northwest Airlines also are lobbying against the deal, which must be approved the Congress. Jul 19, 2006 Dallas/Fort Worth Unless you live in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex The Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington metropolitan area, a title designated by the U.S. Census as of 2003, encompasses 12 counties within the U.S. state of Texas. The metropolitan area is further divided into two metropolitan divisions: Dallas–Plano–Irving (where the story is of seismic proportions), you may have missed this one: The cities of Dallas and Fort Worth have finally gotten together on the fate of Dallas Love Field, that thorn in the side of American Airlines, and hallowed turf for Southwest. If Congress goes along with the deal, Southwest could immediately begin through ticketing at DAL. That means passengers could fly to Love Field from anywhere in the country - if they first stop in a Wright Amendment state (Alabama, Mississippi, Missouri, Kansas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico or Texas). For example, that means flyers could buy a ticket from Dallas Love Field to Los Angeles - provided they stop first at, say, Albuquerque or El Paso. The way things stand, flyers have to buy a separate ticket to travel beyond the Wright states to anywhere in the country on a full-sized airplane. All long-haul restrictions at DAL would be lifted in 2014. That's what's in it for Southwest and the City of Dallas. American and Fort Worth would see Love Field's gates capped at 20 beginning in 2010. That would give Southwest 16 gates, and American and Continental two each. AA now has three gates. But losing one is no big deal - especially if it means Southwest - because of the gate caps - won't be able to grow full force from DAL. Another part of the compromise would see $150 to $200 million in improvements at the airport. There are other provisions too. But these are the biggies. The compromise was hammered out after exhaustive negotiations. Now all that remains is for Congress to go along with the agreement. And lawmakers have lots on their minds in a war-weary, illegal immigration-fixated country that's headed for fall elections. Jul 17, 2006 Detroit Metropolitan Airport From the "May You Never Need to Use It" file: Detroit Metropolitan Airport just opened a new 3,500-square-foot satellite fire station. It's near Runway 22R-4L, on the far west side of DTW DTW Dynamic Time Warping DTW Dance Theatre Workshop (New York, NY) DTW Depth to Water (denotes depth to water in monitoring wells) DTW DoDIIS Trusted Workstation DTW Development Technology Workshop . Jul 17, 2006 Dubai Aerospace Enterprise Wikipedia is not the place for advertisement or self-advertising. Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE) was established in Dubai in February 2006, and is building a global aerospace, manufacturing and services corporation. Dubai Aerospace Enterprise Airports already has assembled a consortium of companies aimed at the airport development and operation market. It estimates that cumulative investment in airports in Africa, the Middle East, the Indian subcontinent and Asia could be as high as $120 billion by 2014. At the center of its airport activities will be the new airport that will be the core of the massive Jebel Ali Airport City project. Jul 18, 2006 Dubai Aerospace Enterprise Dubai Aerospace envisions "passenger friendly" airports. The chief executive of Dubai Aerospace wants to build airports around the world that feature automated communications systems with sensors able to spot and track arriving customers and their luggage. The technology would eliminate check-in lines and security stops, Robert D. Johnson says. Jul 18, 2006 Dubai International Airport Dubai International Airport (IATA: DXB, ICAO: OMDB) (Arabic: مطار دبي الدولي) is the international airport serving Dubai, the largest city of the United Arab Emirates. Dubai International Airport placed a [pounds sterling]2 million order with UK-based Qinetic for its Tarsier tarsier (tär`sēər), small, nocturnal, forest-dwelling prosimian primate, genus Tarsius. There are at least three species found in the Philippines, in Sumatra and Borneo, and in Sulawesi. Tarsiers are about 6 in. radar system that can detect small items of debris on runways. Tarsier was trialed in Dubai in November and is expected to be installed later this year. It inspects a runway continuously with no disruption to aircraft movements and is unaffected by changes in light and weather conditions. The Dubai order follows the first permanent installation of a Tarsier system at Vancouver International Airport Vancouver International Airport (IATA: YVR, ICAO: CYVR) is located on Sea Island in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada, about 15 kilometres from downtown Vancouver. . Jul 18, 2006 Haiti airport Haiti airport improves security standards, TSA says. U.S. officials say Haiti's Port-au-Prince airport has corrected security problems and is now up to international standards. The Transportation Security Administration in 2004 warned U.S. travelers the airport's security measures fell short of international standards. Jul 19, 2006 Las Vegas Las Vegas McCarran International now is the locale for a pilot program by Avis Rent A Car. The car rental outfit will make available to customers requesting them a mobility scooter, either in the trunk of the rented vehicle or delivered to the customer's location. The mobility scooters are battery-operated four-wheeled units used by older persons or those with disabilities. Charge per day is $40. Jul 17, 2006 London Heathrow Express is teaming up with the innovative Canadian company SideTrack Technologies to offer an advertising first in Europe. Where now passengers if they look outside they see little more than their reflections when traveling through the tunnels at Heathrow, they will be treated to a series of illuminated images which turn into animated film as the train passes along at speed. All of the windows light up from the 'videowall' effect upon the tunnel sides. Working much like a child's flip book, the hi-tech system created by SideTrack Technologies, uses approximately 400 static printed images stretching around 1,500 feet. The train's motion in synch with a proprietary lighting system creates a 15 second, "television-like" commercial. The claim is that the sheer contrast between the ads and the blank walls, combined with the lack of competing advertisements within the tunnel produces some of the highest recall rates - nearly 80% - of any advertising media in its target market. Will it happen on the London Underground? Our photo shows a typical picture from the Boston Metro which has the system. http://www.heathrowexpress.com Jul 22, 2006 Los Angeles Power Outage Grounds Los Angeles Area Flights. A power outage late on Tuesday at a regional radar facility halted most air traffic in the Los Angeles area, an airport spokeswoman said. Jul 19, 2006 Manchester Airport Manchester Airports has jumped ahead of BAA in becoming the first UK group to provide "common user self-service" (CUSS) facilities with 70 kiosks now installed across Manchester, Nottingham East Midlands and Humberside airports. Ten airlines have already signed up to use the new technology and with it the advantage of faster check-in times and alternative means of checking-in. These include First Choice, Excel Airways, Monarch Scheduled, MyTravel, Thomsonfly, Virgin Atlantic, Thomas Cook and KLM KLM Kaiserliche Marine (Enigma: Rising Tide game) KLM Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij (Royal Dutch Airlines) KLM Klub Langer Menschen (German: Tall Person Club) . Other carriers, including British Airways and BMI BMI body mass index. BMI abbr. body mass index Body mass index (BMI) A measurement that has replaced weight as the preferred determinant of obesity. have their own express dedicated machines. The new technology was successfully tested in summer 2005 at Manchester and Nottingham East Midlands airports before the decision was taken to install them at the three airports permanently. MAG also own and operate Bournemouth airport. http://www.manchesterairport.co.uk Jul 22, 2006 Manchester Airport Manchester Airport (it's changing names to Manchester-Boston Regional Airport Coordinates: For the United Kingdom airport, see . Manchester-Boston Regional Airport (IATA: MHT, ICAO: KMHT, FAA LID: MHT ) has "been bitten by the same bug everyone else haslegacy carriers rushing to cut mainline jet service and replacing it with affiliate/subsidiary regional jet service instead." The reader says the move "has been devastating dev·as·tate tr.v. dev·as·tat·ed, dev·as·tat·ing, dev·as·tates 1. To lay waste; destroy. 2. To overwhelm; confound; stun: was devastated by the rude remark. to Manchester." Delta, for example, used to offer full-size MD-88 service to MHT MHT Multiple-Hypothesis Tracking MHT Male Hose Thread MHT Mental Health Team MHT Multiple Hypothesis Testing MHT Manchester, NH, USA - Manchester (Airport Code) MHT Multi-server Hyper-threading Transportation . Now, it's solely CRJs, "and the frequency hasn't been increased to handle the demand that there was for DL mainline passengers previously." Add to that the inability to upgrade. Delta isn't alone in downsizing (1) Converting mainframe and mini-based systems to client/server LANs. (2) To reduce equipment and associated costs by switching to a less-expensive system. (jargon) downsizing aircraft. Jul 17, 2006 Miami Lots of new shopping options at Miami International. The new Central Terminal Retail program now sports the likes of Brookstone, Airport Wireless, Borders, The Havana Shirt Store, Mindworks, Mercado Miami, Ron Jon Surf Shop and Prestige Signature - as well as a couple of locations each of NewsLink and Hudson News. Jul 17, 2006 New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of LaGuardia Airport Power outages disrupted air traffic at New York's LaGuardia Airport and shut down part of New York's subway system during morning rush hour on Tuesday amid searing sear 1 v. seared, sear·ing, sears v.tr. 1. To char, scorch, or burn the surface of with or as if with a hot instrument. See Synonyms at burn1. 2. summer heat. With temperatures reaching about 100 degrees Fahrenheit (37.7 degrees Celsius), several terminals at LaGuardia were without power for much of the day, causing problems for Delta Air Lines and American Airlines, said Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, self-sustaining public corporation established in 1921 by the states of New York and New Jersey to administer the activities of the New York–New Jersey port area, which has a waterfront of c. spokesman Pasquale DiFulco. Consolidated Edison, which delivers power to LaGuardia -- the closest major airport to Manhattan -- had not determined when the power would be fully restored there. Feeder power cables to northwest Queens, the New York borough where LaGuardia is located, were being repaired, Con Ed spokesman Chris Olert said. By late afternoon, three of the eight cables to the airport were still down, he said. Jul 18, 2006 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] Biometrics could become standard, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. says. Biometric-fingerprint technology could eventually replace credit cards, passwords and keys, according to AuthenTec Chief Executive Scott Moody. Orlando International Airport currently uses the technology in its Registered Traveler program. Jul 19, 2006 Phoenix Sky Harbor Phoenix high-rise no hazard to air traffic, FAA says. A 39-story luxury hotel and condominium will not pose a hazard to planes using Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport “PHX” redirects here. For other uses, see PHX (disambiguation). Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (IATA: PHX, ICAO: KPHX, FAA LID: PHX , the Federal Aviation Administration Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), component of the U.S. Department of Transportation that sets standards for the air-worthiness of all civilian aircraft, inspects and licenses them, and regulates civilian and military air traffic through its air traffic control says. The building site is adjacent to airspace pilots use if their aircraft loses power during takeoff. Jul 21, 2006 |
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