The London Triathlon, the world’s largest triathlon, is taking place over the weekend of 7 and 8 August 2010. The event will result in several road closures and passengers travelling to London City Airport are advised to allow extra time for their journey.
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Travel to London City Airport: London Triathlon road closures 7 & 8 August
United Airlines and Continental Airlines have received unconditional clearance from the European Commission on the airlines’ proposed merger. The Commission noted its investigation found the proposed transaction would not raise any specific concerns in Europe or the trans-Atlantic market
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United Continental receives clearance from European Commission
I’m writing this from Peoria, Illinois. I’ve been in the region for a few days, specifically Champaign, Illinois visiting family and Jacksonville, Illinois attending my wife’s family reunion
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Does It Play in Peoria?
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Earlier this week, I was interviewed by Paul Plack of the Aero-News Network to get the airport’s reaction to the July 13 federal court decision which upheld a Transportation Department rule that gives airports the flexibility to use congestion pricing as one tool to reduce flight delays. Download the ANN Podcast . In the interview, I also explained that the airlines position on raising the ceiling on the maximum Passenger Facility Charge to $7 just doesn’t make sense. He noted that that the airlines are better off financially when capital improvements to an airport are financed by PFC-back bonds instead of including the costs of the improvement into the airline’s rate base. During the course of the interview, Paul also asked me about blogging so I shared some thoughts on writing this column over the last two years.
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The opening title sequence of the Mary Tyler Moore Show is memorialized in bronze in downtown Minneapolis. Just returned from Minneapolis where we held our annual small airports conference . We had a good group of directors and other senior staff from small and non-hub airports in the United States and Canada, discussing and debating many of the important issues they face on a day-to-day basis. The Minneapolis airport folks, especially CEO Jeff Hamiel and Mitch Killian who runs their government affairs shop, did a great job hosting us and showing us the best Minneapolis has to offer; including a boat ride on Lake Minnetonka . We hold a number of issue-oriented meetings throughout the year. The larger airports can send dedicated staff to those meetings, but smaller airports are not always able to do so, in fact many do not have staff dedicated to one topic. So, we conceived this conference as a way to touch on the wide variety of issues small airport directors must deal with on an ongoing basis. This year’s meeting focused on such topics as the new customer service rules, information technology, web content, security, Next Gen and other such topics. It is also a good chance for directors of these airports, and their senior staff, to get together with their colleagues to network, share best practices, ask questions and so on. We also had joined us for a two hour discussion two airport members of the Future of Aviation Advisory Commission , established earlier this year by Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. Sue Baer, from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and Raul Regalado, from Nashville, flew in for the day to meet with the airport directors, hear their concerns and participate in an exercise designed to identify policy priorities for the group. Issues such as air service were a key focus, but the issue that really dominated the discussion was the growing list of regulatory unfunded mandates. This will be a major focus of ours going forward, it is a special concern of the smaller airport directors, and you will hear more on this topic in the weeks and months to come. Before closing, I should note the response my blog last week on my experience in the United Red Carpet Club in Chicago. A couple of comments were posted, even more comments came directly. I fly United a lot, and my experience is overwhelmingly positive; indeed, the flight and cabin crews on my flight from Chicago back to Washington last Friday night did a great job when our departure was delayed – we got good information and we were served drinks while we waited (in the end, passengers mostly want good information and some basic necessities in such instances). I should also note that Kevin Knight, a Senior Vice President at United for Planning, attended the Small Airports Conference and delivered a speech on the pending United/Continental merger and its potential impact on air service, and answered questions. Alissa Markert came with him and spent a great deal of time speaking to attendees (she and I also chatted about the blog, very civil and constructive which I certainly appreciated – when I went to the Business Center to print my boarding pass she was in there and even printed it out for me). She’s an excellent representative of United Airlines. No, I’m not backing off the earlier post, and I hope the word will go out and others will reply to customers a little differently the last time. This is just a recognition that one incident does not a company make and, despite my frequent criticisms of airlines for some of their policy positions and for their overall record on customer service, I have also in the past given credit to airlines and their employees when I see them doing the right thing in my travels. And, yes, I am still glad I had those two little kids as my guests and, no, I don’t think that will contribute to United being in any danger of bankruptcy.
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Small Airports, Mandates and United Airlines
Here’s an aerial overview of Air Salvage International’s scrap yard at Kemble Airport. The company recently dismantled a Boeing 737-600 and a two-year old Boeing 737-800 involved in an accident
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Vision Airlines tags itself as ‘Your Personal Airline of Choice’, which seems fairly ironic given that the alleged Russian spies on board its Boeing 767-200ER at Vienna today are being forcibly deported. More irony, if you’re into that sort…
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I’m writing this while sitting in the United Red Carpet lounge at O’Hare waiting for my flight to Minneapolis to attend our Small Airports Conference .
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Airlines Play the Blame Game and United’s Not-so-Red-Carpet Treatment
Met Monday with Ad Rutten , who is in charge of Amsterdam Schipol Airport . He previously worked for KLM in a very high profile position, so he has seen things from both sides. His airport has been in the crosshairs of two of the biggest aviation stories of the year
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Scenes from Schiphol
Greetings from Amsterdam! Arrived here from Casablanca Friday night; we’ve had two wonderful days here. Tomorrow I will meet with the chairman of ACI Europe, Ad Rutten . Ad runs Schipol Airport and has done a tremendous job these past six months addressing direct fallout from two very difficult events these past six months: the Christmas bombing attempt and the volcanic eruption
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I AMsterdam
New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport is set to open its new terminal three on 14 July. The 5.4 million sq ft complex will put it ahead of Seoul’s Incheon, Tokyo’s Narita (terminal one) and Singapore’s Changi (terminal three),…
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Sneak peek of New Delhi Airport’s Terminal Three – Asian Skies
Charlotte NC’s International airport (CLT) is fast becoming a fan favorite for passengers in Central Virginia. US Airways will be adding a 7th daily flight (and 5th regional jet) during the summer from CHO to CLT and for good reason. With 632 daily departures and non-stop service to
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…with apologies to Crosby, Stills and Nash …this is being written on the train from Casablanca to Marrakech. I’m on the way to a meeting with my ACI regional director colleagues in Marrakech hosted by Ali Tounsi, my colleague who serves as Regional Secretary for ACI-Africa
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Aboard the Marrakech Express . . .
Vancouver Airport Services announced today that it has reached agreement with The Peel Group to acquire a 65 per cent share in Peel Airports Limited which includes key airport assets of Liverpool John Lennon Airport, Robin Hood Airport Doncaster Sheffield and Durham Tees Valley Airport. The Peel Group will retain a 35 per cent investment in
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Vancouver Airport Services invests in Liverpool John Lennon Airport
Gatwick Airport has announced a £1 billion investment programme to improve facilities and deliver great services to travellers. Aiming to be London’s ‘airport of choice’, the programme of improvements will take two years to implement and will offer modern facilities throughout the airport. Over the next two years the airport will under go improvements to the
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Gatwick Airport announces £1 billion investment programme
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When Eater operatives happened upon the newly opened Five Guys Burgers & Fries at the LaGuardia Airport on Friday afternoon, it was just three days old. But the trouble had already begun. At the primo lunch hour, the lines formed both for the cashier and pick up counter while the food court rivals sat empty
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Certified Open: Five Guys Already Causing Trouble at LaGuardia Airport
I went up to Boston last week to speak to a class at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). It was an executive education class as part of their aviation program
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My MIT Message – Airlines are Just a Tube with Wings