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Flights to Puerto Rico have long been on Lehigh Valley International Airport’s wishlist, but now airport officials want to put data behind their marketing to get direct flights to San Juan.

Lehigh-Northampton Airport Authority works with Know your knowledge research consultants on a survey, which was distributed from last week and can be viewed online here.

The short survey asks if respondents have family or business interests in Puerto Rico and how often they visit the archipelago. He also asks if a respondent would fly from LVIA to Puerto Rico if there was a competitively priced nonstop flight to San Juan.

“The research and data obtained from this survey are extremely useful when the airport discusses short and long haul opportunities with airlines to provide non-stop service that benefits surrounding communities of ABE,” said the executive director. authority, Tom Stoudt, in a press release. “We want to reinforce the need for a new route by showing that there is strong demand and support from the community.”

Pricing appears to be a key issue for passengers at Hanover Township, Lehigh County Airport.

Low cost carrier Allegiant began serving LVIA in 2005 and has grown in popularity. Allegiant opened a flight base in 2020 at LVIA and has added direct leisure destinations over the years, the most recent being Sarasota, Florida.

For years Puerto Rico has been on the wishlist of destinations, as the valley’s Hispanic population and those with ties to the region continue to grow.

Other requested destinations include Boston, Pittsburgh, Dallas and Austin, an aviation consultant told members of airport authorities three years ago.

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GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KKCO) – This weekend was the 6th annual Tribute to Aviation event hosted by the Montrose Regional Airport.

The long-awaited tribute to the flagship aviation event featured a static display of various military aircraft. This means that there was little movement involved. But most of the planes were open to spectators. In addition to speaking with the pilots and the crew. The event was both entertaining and inspiring. For adults who wish to learn to fly, as well as for children interested in a career in aviation. The US Army parachute team called the Golden Knights even demonstrated a 2pm jump. the two days of the event.

Everyone was delighted to be there after it was canceled last year due to security concerns related to COVID-19. Civilians and military veterans came to see and visit military planes. Both past and present. In addition to speaking with active military personnel.

“This event for our community is one of the highlights,” said Katie Yergensen, Montrose County Public Information Officer. “This is by far the biggest event for the community of Montrose. The airport is really proud to set it up and attract people from all over the West Slope to showcase and display aviation careers, be it military careers or general aviation careers. .

The event also featured a pilot learning area, with information for the flying lessons. As well as educational areas to learn more about aviation careers.

“Montrose County is home to a large number of veterans,” Yergensen said. “We are grateful for their service and dedication to our country. Of course, we attract a large number of military aircraft. So a lot of our veterans want to get out, maybe some of them have served, flown or been on missions on these planes. It’s pretty nice to relive some of those memories and see those planes again. We are therefore proud to achieve this.

The aircraft featured this year is the B52 bomber which has been in service since the 1950s. The 6th annual Aviation Tribute event is Montrose County’s largest event. Over 20,000 people came to the event this weekend. As aviation remains a key industry both in today’s society and in the military.

“I loved the military, I was proud to serve my country,” said US Navy veteran Don Archer. “I remember some of those planes and I really love being here. Meet all the great people who pass by and share their stories with me. It makes my day complete.

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The city of East Hampton is considering closing or modifying its airport. Flights serving the East End may be diverted to nearby airports – including Mattituck, Westhampton Beach Francis S. Gabreski Airport, Montauk Airport and Southampton Heliport – new research finds. whether East Hampton Airport were to close or scale back operations.

The study was conducted by environmental and transportation engineering firm Harris Miller Miller & Hanson and is available on the City of East Hampton website.

In March 2020.

Routes depart from Manhattan in the east on Long Island Sound, around the tip of North Fork, on the east side of South Fork, and into East Hampton.

When the news reached Southold Town supervisor Scott Russell, he criticized the report for “turning a blind eye to the zoning” which made the analysis “far short of the facts and reality” .

Mattituck Airport, Russell told The Times Review, “is largely residential zoned and, with the exception of a small industrial part off New Suffolk Avenue, most of the airport operates as a pre-existing and non-compliant air base for private use. Expansion of the runway, increased use for public access, use as a helipad, increased use of certain properties for parking, etc., would all be prohibited. “

The supervisor added that it didn’t make sense for passengers to land at Mattituck if they were trying to get to East Hampton. “Why would they land in Mattituck only to take two ferries, with limited capacity and service, to get there?” ” He asked.

Gabreski Airport would likely bear the brunt of the hijacked air traffic, according to the analysis. If East Hampton Airport were to shut down completely, Gabreski could see its operations increase by almost 40%.

The analysis pointed out that all figures in the study represent the “worst case scenario”.

Barry Raebeck, director of the Coalition to Transform East Hampton Airport – a community group advocating for the airfield to be closed – said much air traffic was unlikely to be diverted to Mattituck if the site closed.

“I know the area. I’ve lived here my whole life, ”he said. “Mattituck has no facilities, he has no parking space for airplanes, he has virtually no parking space for cars… and the remoteness of the site, especially in high season when the traffic is so heavy on South Fork… Who would do that? ? It’s not going to happen. “

Mr Raebeck said community efforts to shut down East Hampton Airport have continued for years and criticized the site for creating environmental and noise pollution and harming the quality of life for residents nearby.

“It doesn’t make much sense to the people here that public lands are being used to attack the public with eye, air, groundwater and noise pollution at an ever increasing level,” he said. said, adding: “It started from a small country airport… to this monstrosity that destroys the habitat and the quality of life of thousands of people, from near the airport to Manhattan. nightmare, basically.

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Richard Golinowski, a 26-year veteran on the staff of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, has been appointed vice president and airport manager at Washington Dulles International Airport.

The appointment will take effect later this month, when current airport manager Mike Stewart leaves for an aviation job in upstate Virginia.

During his service with the Authority, Golinowski has held a variety of key positions, most recently as Vice President of Operations Support.

Opened in 1962 and named in honor of former US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles (“Washington” was added in 1984), Dulles Airport covers 11,184 acres (including approximately 3,800 acres). used for flight operations) and has 113 boarding gates. The airport has four runways – a fifth planned for the future – and a parking lot that can accommodate up to 24,000 vehicles.

Once built, the airport was designed to handle 6 million passengers per year. Despite struggling to attract passengers in its early days due to a location considered remote from much of the Washington area, passenger numbers began to grow exponentially in the 1980s. Since the start of 2020, that figure has been drastically reduced due to COVID.

An engineering graduate from Virginia Tech, Golinowski brings more than three decades of engineering and operational leadership to his new role, including overseeing the engineering and maintenance department at Reagan National Airport for 13 years.

Authority CEO Jack Potter also announced that Christopher Paolino, Assistant Vice President for Strategy and Business Transformation and Performance, will assume Golinowski’s current role in supporting operations, and that Chryssa Westerlund will take on the role of Acting Executive Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer following the upcoming retirement of Jerome Davis, who has held the position for seven years.

At the authority meeting on September 13, director Thorn Pozen was elected vice president until the end of 2021.

The position became vacant when MWAA president Earl Adams Jr. stepped down from the board in July. William Sudow, who held the position of Vice-President, held this leadership position.

The leaders of Authority 2022 – president, vice-president and secretary – will be elected in November.

Avelo Airlines began service between Charles M. Schulz-Sonoma County Airport and Las Vegas on Thursday, airport officials said.

The Burbank-based carrier, which announced the new route in July, offers flights on Thursdays, Fridays, Sundays and Mondays.

Avelo entered the commercial air transport market at the end of April, with its inaugural flight to the Santa Rosa facilities.

Meanwhile, the total number of passengers for the regional facility edged down in August compared to July, according to figures released Thursday.

Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, Avelo Airlines and United Airlines – the four commercial carriers serving the airport – collectively carried 45,086 passengers through facilities in Sonoma County, up 280.5% from the previous year . In July, the airport carried 48,926 passengers, without United in the mix.

United resumed flights to San Francisco on August 1 and for the month carried 2,073 passengers. Its load factor – the measure of the average aircraft fill rate – was 68%.

United remain on track to resume service at Denver on February 11, 2022.

Airport manager Jon Stout said the drop of around 3,800 passengers from the previous month was not surprising.

“The vast majority of the (fall) is due to the delta variant and concerns about COVID,” Stout said. “And historically, we’re also seeing a drop right before Labor Day.”

Alaska Airlines, the regional facility’s largest commercial carrier, carried 28,105 passengers in August, up 247% from August 2020. Alaska’s load factor was 75%, up from 31% one year earlier.

American Airlines carried 10,192 passengers in August through the Santa Rosa Airport, up 253.2% from the previous year. The carrier load factor was 75%, up from 59% in August 2020.

American will suspend its flight from Dallas to the Sonoma County Airport for about three months starting Nov. 2, as the Business Journal reported last month. The restart date should always be February 17th.

Avelo carried 4,716 passengers in August, with a load factor of 71%. The still-new airline has performed well, Stout noted.

“We continue to hear very positive experiences from their customers,” he said.

Milwaukee Mitchell Airport Manager Brian Dranzik joins BizTimes Editor-in-Chief Andrew Weiland to discuss airport rebound after COVID-19 pandemic, addition of new flights and carriers , the potential for more international travel and the latest efforts to relaunch Midwest Express.

Here are some highlights from their conversation:

In addition to new destinations like Destin, Savannah, Charleston and Portland, Maine:

Weiland: “I don’t remember Milwaukee ever offering service to destinations like this, do I?” “

Dranzik: ” Yes that’s right. This is something new. Again, they were just looking at where they could potentially place flights and how it happened. In some cases I think it could have been a bit experimental, we’ll see how it goes. This has created unique opportunities for airlines to consider doing something like this. … We will see how it went in our conversations with the airlines, we will see if they are considering re-establishing such a service.

On the potential of a flight from Milwaukee to Europe:

Dranzik: “We have had conversations over time with different carriers about this. It really just takes people from our region to get involved, so it’s a bit of a chicken-and-egg question. We believe that if and when we get that first flight to a European destination, it will open the eyes of many carriers to a lot of possibilities. This is something that we are working on and I hope that in the future, after the pandemic, we will be successful at some point.

On the status of the international terminal on the E Concourse:

Dranzik: “He’s a bit of a victim of the COVID experience we’ve been going through for a year and a half, almost two years. These revenues to support this project come mainly from the charges for passenger facilities and concession revenues, so as these declined, we had to postpone the project. We are confident that we have a good plan that can go into construction, we are just monitoring the cash flow and determining when the time is right to restart this project. It will probably be another year or two before we can launch this. We would have basically, I think, completed this project this year if we had stayed on schedule. “

Avelo Airlines caused a stir in Las Vegas on Thursday.

The Houston-based airline, founded and run by a former Allegiant Air executive, landed on time on its maiden flight to Las Vegas from Santa Rosa, Calif., And sailed under an arch of ceremonial water as he entered a gate at McCarran International Airport. .

A return flight left McCarran Thursday afternoon for Charles M. Schulz-Sonoma County Airport, near the wine country of northern California.

The company is promoting its Las Vegas service with introductory one-way fares purchased before September 29, starting at $ 29 and available on flights through January 11.

Round trips between Sonoma County and Las Vegas will be operated on Mondays, Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays on 189-seat Boeing 737-800 jets.

But Avelo founder and CEO Andrew Levy hinted in an interview Thursday that there may be more flights to Las Vegas in the new airline’s future.

“Las Vegas is a single market with unlimited demand so I can say it’s highly likely that we will do more there,” said Levy, who spent 14 years at Allegiant where he became president of the company.

Levy has recruited several other former Allegiant executives for Avelo, including Greg Baden, COO, Todd Cinnamon, Chief Information Officer, and Sean Hopkins, Head of Contracts.

Avelo launched its maiden flight in April with a schedule that includes round trips from its operational hub at Hollywood Burbank Airport to Sonoma, Redding and Eureka, California; Medford, Eugene and Bend, Oregon; Ogden and Provo, Utah; Pasco, Washington; and Fort Collins, Colorado.

In December, Avelo will replicate its West Coast flight schedule, using New Haven, Connecticut, as a hub with round-trip flights to five destinations in Florida: Orlando, Tampa, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach and Fort Myers.

On the East Coast, Avelo will operate 147-seat Boeing 737-700 jets. The airline currently has three 737-800s and three 737-700s in its fleet. Two more 800s and two more 700s will be added later in the year.

The planes were bought or leased from Southwest Airlines, which is substituting some of its 800 and 700 series planes for the MAX 7 and MAX 8 jets.

Levy credits the hard work of the company’s “wonderful management team” and its 220 employees for the successful launch of an airline in the midst of a pandemic. He said once Avelo begins operations on the East Coast, the number of employees will increase to around 300. No employees are based in Las Vegas, but that could change if operations grow. Avelo is currently contracting for its ground operations at McCarran.

Levy said he adopted operational strategies that he liked from his competitors and that he hired workers who can implement those strategies. The company has adopted the “Soul of Service” culture based on a “One Crew” mindset that promotes teamwork, kindness and good deeds.

Levy said Avelo is a name agreed upon by his management team that mixes up “avenue”, connoting the hometown aspect of flights to small secondary airports, with “speed”.

The company plans to launch a “Hello Avelo” campaign to help customers learn airline pronunciation.

Contact Richard N. Velotta at [email protected] or 702-477-3893. To follow @RickVelotta on Twitter.

To support its planned ramp-up operations, the Dubai-based airline Emirates has launched a global campaign to recruit 3,000 cabin crew and 500 airport services employees to join its Dubai hub over the next six months. . (Looking for a job in the United Arab Emirates? Check out these vacancies)

These roles are positions based in Dubai and roles in direct contact with clients. Applicants interested in joining Emirates as a cabin crew or as an airport services agent can find out more about the job requirements and apply at www.emiratesgroupcareers.com.

Emirates welcomes over 1.2 million passengers during the summer months

Emirates has gradually restored its network operations in line with the easing of worldwide travel restrictions, and in recent months it has recalled pilots, cabin crew and other operational employees who were laid off when the pandemic forced a drastic reduction in flights for the last time. year.

The airline currently serves more than 120 cities, representing 90% of its pre-pandemic network, and it plans to restore 70% of its capacity by the end of the year, including by putting more of its iconic icons back into active service. A380. .

CORPUS CHRISTI, TX – Due to deteriorating weather conditions caused by Tropical Storm Nicholas, two of the three airlines that serve Corpus Christi International Airport (CCIA) have proactively canceled all of their flights for the next 24 hours. . United Airlines and Southwest Airlines have canceled all flights to and from the CCIA for the remainder of the day.

American Airlines currently displays all flights departing and arriving today as scheduled. Depending on weather conditions, this may change.

As the weather conditions change, there could be additional disturbances for at least the next 48 hours and beyond. Anyone who needs to fly to or from the CCIA during this time should be in contact with their airline for the latest information.

Travelers can also visit www.corpuschristiairport.com for the latest published flight schedules and status.

The airport terminal will remain open for the duration of the weather event to provide customer service to tenants and travelers who may need assistance. Airport managers monitor the conditions at the aerodrome and will take action, if necessary, to maintain all safety standards at the CCIA.

For more information, media representatives can contact CCIA Marketing Director Kim Bridger-Hunt at (361) 774-7871 or email [email protected]

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