Airports

Delta Air Lines CEO Richard Anderson Issues Statement on Lease Extension at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport

October 6, 2009

ATLANTA, Oct. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Delta Air Lines CEO Richard Anderson today issued the following statement announcing an agreement with the City of Atlanta to extend its lease at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport through 2017. “Delta is pleased to have reached an agreement with the City of Atlanta on a lease extension at Hartsfield-Jackson that [...]

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Does Your airport cut jobs? Why?

September 12, 2009

It looks like the hard times hits the airline and airport business very hard in very near future to those that it haven’t hit already. But what comes to cutting jobs in airports, especially in ground handling, I think there is something to be cut, at least in Helsinki airport (HEL). I arrived in HEL [...]

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Transformation Under Way at Helsinki-Vantaa Airport

August 24, 2009

Image via Wikipedia On Thursday August 27, the first phase of a new 150 million euro terminal opens at Helsinki-Vantaa Airport serving long-haul flight customers and those bound for other destinations outside the Schengen area. At this point, new service areas will speed up our customers’ connection-flight formalities and improve the general enjoyment of Finnair [...]

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Fraport Consortium Preferred Bidder in St. Petersburg Airport Concession Project

June 26, 2009

Image via Wikipedia FRANKFURT, Germany, June 25/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Fraport AG is well positioned to assume the responsibility for operating Pulkovo Airport, Russia’s fourth largest airport, beginning in 2010. As part of the international tender process, the City of St. Petersburg (the current owner and operator of Pulkovo Airport) today announced that the Northern Capital Gateway [...]

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Gulfstream International Airlines Provides FAA With Detailed Response

June 16, 2009

Image via Wikipedia FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., June 15 /PRNewswire/ — Gulfstream International Airlines, Inc. said today it has filed a detailed response to the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) findings from a 2008 inspection and proposed civil penalty.  The company provided documentation that it believes shows that it was in compliance with the relevant regulations in [...]

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Flight delays in Chicago

April 26, 2009

Image via Wikipedia Band of thunderstorms that moved into the Chicago area Saturday afternoon has caused more than 100 flight cancellations at O’Hare Airport. Thunderstorms  continued Saturday night, when temperatures are expected to fall into the upper 40s, according to the National Weather Service’s Web site. As much as ¾-inch new rain could fall by [...]

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Delta stops nonstop flights between Ricmont and New York

February 8, 2009

Delta has been providing four flights daily on that route, using 50-seat Canadair CRJ100 regional jets. The reduction will leave Richmond International Airport with 20 daily nonstops to the three New York metro-area airports. The Richmond cuts are part “of our previously reported domestic capacity reductions,” Delta spokeswoman Susan Elliott said, “as we move toward [...]

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Iberia provides hotel lodging for more than 8,000 passengers in Madrid

January 12, 2009

• The company also contracted 25 flights with other airlinse to carry customers affected by delays and cancellations following snowstorm. • Some 2,000 Iberia staff are working double shifts and an extra 300 were mobilised to assist customers. • All Iberia’s VIP lounges were kept open permanently to affected passengers. Madrid, 11 of January of 2009 Following the numerous [...]

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