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A recent editorial from Mercury News reported that despite astounding improvements in recent times that the San Jose Airport was still struggling to meet their financial needs in order to stay fully operational. During tough financial times, businesses need a steady customer flow in order to keep the proverbial doors open. The San Jose Airport does [...] The downtown airport in Kansas City Missouri has had a major twenty million dollar upgrade project which includes self service gas pumps that pilots can pull right up to for re-fueling. The gas will be competitively priced compared to other local sources, but pilots will be able to fill up on their own and pay [...] The Keokuk Municipal Airport in Iowa has received about $300 thousand dollars in government funds to go toward much needed repairs for the ailing runway. This is just one example of many in recent times of airports attempting to make the necessary adjustments and repairs in order to be able to provide the service that [...] Helicopters are an incredibly versatile tool in the aviation industry; they are widely used by emergency medical personnel to transport critical patients for care, they are used by police to track criminals who are on the run in vehicles or on foot, and they are used by radio and television news crews to provide up [...] Enterprise, the rental car and airport shuttle powerhouse, recently made the announcement for plans to convert its entire fleet of buses to 20% biodiesel over the course of the next five years. They are putting the plan into action immediately with a conversion of every bus across nine of the fifty North American markets [...] Television reality shows have chronicled the lives of 20-somethings trying to carve a dream out of the big city. They’ve provided a window into the daily, if sometimes bizare lives of everyone from mega-stars like Ozzy Osbourne to star wanna-bes like Kim Kardashian. Reality shows have made stars of tough bounty hunters, custom bike builders, [...] Not long ago the future of FBOs was looking pretty rosy. Business travel was booming worldwide and aviation industry gurus predicted a robust future for FBO operations. Then the U.S. economy tanked sending global markets sprawling. Financial woes pulled the plug first on personal airline travel, then on business travel. Airlines were an early casualty of the [...] Hope is on the horizon. The airline industry is starting to climb out of the recession, but it could be years before business travel returns to its pre-recession level, if it ever does. Pre-recession, business travel was the most important growth segment for passenger airlines. Unfortunately, the recession forced frequent corporate travelers to adopt less [...] If you feel a logistical nightmare coming on, you’ve probably read about the new federal aviation cargo screening rules scheduled to go into effect in August 3, 2010. In just 8 short months all freight shipped aboard commercial airlines will have to be screened for bombs just like suitcases are screened now. Federal and aviation [...] Last week’s frightening failure to the FAA’s National Airspace Data Interchange Network pointed highlighted just one more glaring problem faced by the beleaguered airline industry. Cascading flight delays annoyed and already irritated public fed up with perpetual delays, equipment failures, burgeoning ticket surcharges and the newest brouhaha over expiring frequent flyer miles. Man, airlines just [...] |
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