While athletes and spectators may be counting down to the opening ceremony of the London Olympic Games on the 27th of July this year, the managers of Heathrow Airport are more concerned with the day after the closing of the event. Athletes, officials, and spectators will arrive in London on different days before the games, [...]
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Higher oil prices forced airlines to increase airfares last year, and this is likely to continue into 2012, say air travel experts. According to the United States Department of Transportation, an increase in oil prices in the first quarter of 2011 pushed airfares up by 8.5%. One airline attempted to raise its airfares 22 times [...] Government restrictions and difficulty getting into major national airports are two of the major issues that prevent smaller, upstart airlines from getting solid footing to grow and succeed in this industry. The initial investment in the planes, the aircraft ground equipment and adequate personnel to operate efficiently can be astronomical for a business that will [...] The projected funding numbers for DOT and FAA and overall the FAA should see more than sixteen billions dollars of federal money, included in which is about three and a half billion for the Airport Improvement Program (AIP). There have been some mammoth improvements made over the course of the last few years to both [...] A mammoth two billion dollar renovation project to the four outdated terminals in the Dallas Forth Worth airport will likely mean higher parking rates, higher prices on concessions and potentially higher fares as the airport tries to recover the money spent on the upgrades. The upgrades are necessary and will most certainly increase the capabilities [...] Even after nearly one billion dollars of necessary upgrades, the work at Indianapolis International still isn’t quite complete. Underway now is the resurrection of an additional facility of about forty thousand square feet that is slated to be complete and ready for use in August. The new building’s main purpose will be to house extra [...] Contract disputes have left the very popular Spirit Airlines planes on the ground for several days since pilots walked off the job last Saturday. The airline offered full refunds to customers for missed flights and in some cases even offered a bonus in addition to the refund to be used on future flights to remain [...] It took nearly four million dollars in government stimulus funds and almost a year of hard work to complete, but the brand new 20,000+ square foot fire station at the Piedmont Triad International Airport is all but ready for action. The new, state of the art facility is replacing the much smaller fire station that [...] An eight million dollar runway renovation project planned for the Fort Collins-Loveland Municipal Airport in Colorado that was the contracts were expected to have been signed for this Summer is now on hold due to lack of funding. Nearly all of the money was to come from the FAA, but Congress’ failure to approve continued [...] We’re all accustomed to seeing the dramatic water rescues or medical choppers transporting patients after serious accidents on the news. We’ve also all seen the helicopters hovering over the roads clogged with cars reporting the details of local traffic jams, but in Southern British Columbia right now there is a much different reason for that [...] |
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