Airport Business
March 2002
Airport Business magazine is the most widely circulated and audited business publication that targets professionals who manage airports, airport-based businesses, and corporate flight facilities in North America. Its 17,000+ subscribers are critical to the safe operation of the North American air transportation system.
Published 8 times annually, Airport Business seeks to help these managers run their operations more effectively by sharing case studies of what others are doing successfully and by providing expert analysis, industry news, and product information.
INSIDE THE FENCE
Notes from an AOPA town hall meeting and a conversation on a Northwest flight
to Milwaukee ...
by John F. Infanger
Phil Boyer, president of the Aircraft Owners & Pilots Association
- now some 380,780 members...
FUEL WATCH
March 2002
North Central
Jet-A: $2.35
Avgas: $2.40
Northeast
Jet-A: $2.53
Avgas: $2.53
West Coast
Jet-A: $2.41
Avgas: $2.46
South Central
Jet-A: $2.10
Avgas: $2.33
Southeast
Jet-A: $2.40...
A Sporting NPRM
by Ralph Hood
Ralph Hood is a Certified Speaking Professional who has addressed aviation groups throughout North America. A pilot since 1969, he's insured and sold airplanes at retail and distributor levels and taught...
LEGAL NOTES Law, insurance reps meet in Florida
by John F. Infanger
DAYTONA BEACH, FL - Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University held its 14th
annual Aviation Law/Insurance Symposium here recently. Following are excerpted
highlights from...
BIOMETRICS, ETC. A roundup of new developments, alliances
by Lindsay Hitch
Biometric technologies
remain the topic du jour in discussions of improving airport and airline
security. One recent development: A research team at the Mayo Clinic...
UNITED'S VENTURE As Avolar goes to market, it seeks vendor input, interest
by Lindsay M. Hitch
ARLINGTON
HEIGHTS, IL - Recognizing that its established competitors have fine-tuned
their fractional ownership programs, Avolar is gathering...
MAKING A CHAIN Florida firm continues growth via acquisition with ASI Orlando FBO
by John F. Infanger
STUART, FL - In January, officials who own the mini-chain of fixed
base operations, Boca Aviation and Galaxy Aviation, announced the...
FBO
SECURITY
Aviation businesses
need to get ahead of Washington
by Michael A. Hodges
To date, virtually
all of the focus on security has been at the airline level, and unfortunately,
most of it is more for "show" than for the actual...
A CHANGE IN PRIORITIES UT short course relates planning takes a back seat to security
by John Boyce
AUSTIN,
TX - Issues facing airports haven't changed because of the September terrorist
attacks, it's just that the issue of security...
ANKENY'S NEW AIRPORT
Economic development
effort prospers, centered around a new GA airport
by John F. Infanger
ANKENY, IA - Ten years ago, a drive north of Des Moines revealed farmland
and little else. Today, the exit off I-35 to...
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