Atlanta airport terminal project may be suspended
November 14, 2008 ·
A $1.6 billion project to build a new international terminal at the world’s busiest airport could be suspended within the next few months because the airport has been unable to sell $600 million in municipal bonds due to tight credit markets, the head of the airport said Thursday. “Investors are not interested in our debt,” [...]
American Airlines offers mobile boarding passes
November 13, 2008 ·
Passengers on American Airlines will be able to get boarding passes electronically on their mobile phones or PDAs at some airports beginning Thursday, avoiding the need for printed passes. The carrier said the electronic passes were being introduced Thursday for passengers leaving on domestic flights from Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. The passes will be offered [...]
Check out your future check-in
October 21, 2008 ·
Space travel, security threats and increasing passenger numbers are forcing major changes in the way airports are designed. In fact, when discussing the future of the airport it is now appropriate to consider both conventional air travel hubs we are familiar with, as well as the imminent ‘spaceports’. The rush of interest in setting up [...]
Non-Flying Jobs In General Aviation
October 15, 2008 ·
General aviation – defined as all aviation not classified as military or airline – is by far the largest segment of the aviation industry. In terms of aircraft, there are about 221,000 general aviation aircraft compared to just under 19,000 airliners of all types in the United States. The airlines serve just 650 airports in [...]
GAO: FAA cannot auction flights slots
October 1, 2008 ·
U.S. aviation officials have no legal authority to auction off takeoff and landing slots at airports, a scheme the government devised to try to curb crippling traffic jams at major airports, congressional investigators said Tuesday. The legal opinion from the Government Accountability Office comes amid a legal fight among airlines, airport operators and the Federal [...]
American Airlines may cut 469 jobs at airports
September 4, 2008 ·
American Airline has sent notices to 469 employees at airports in five U.S. cities that they may lose their jobs in November as the airline continues to cut back on flights. A total of 353 workers at Chicago O’Hare International Airport received the notices. The remaining notices went to workers in Los Angeles, San Francisco, [...]
Passengers stranded after Zoom planes grounded
August 28, 2008 ·
Hundreds of Zoom Airline passengers were stranded Thursday in Canada and the UK after the cash-strapped Canadian airline suddenly canceled all of its flights after creditors took action to get money owed them. Zoom said the economic downturn and the unprecedented rise in the price of aviation fuel made it impossible for the privately owned [...]
