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Welcome to our May e-Newsletter.
You have a choice in how to access this issue's content. You can click below the magazine cover to view the entire digital edition or you can scroll down to read several of the featured stories right away.
No matter how you choose to read us, please enjoy this issue.
Cheers,
Paul
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Terminals
Security Training for Florida Airports Funded with License Plate
Sales
By making the program available to all public-use airports, we have
made airport security a top priority - even for airports that
previously could not afford to offer training to their staff,"
explains David Roberts, FDOT Aviation Operations administrator. The
agency also extends training to onsite workers not employed by the
airport, such as local police officers who respond to calls at the
airport.
Sebring Regional Airport (SEF) is requiring its employees, FBO
management team and security officers to take the training. Vicky
Stewart, SEF project coordinator, notes that consistency and
continuity of training are key benefits of the program; that's why
the airport includes accounting and finance department personnel on
its participant list...[more]
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Baggage
Baltimore/Washington Int'l Optimizes Baggage Handling System
After Southwest Airlines acquired AirTran Airways
last year, its Checked Baggage Inspection System (CBIS) at
Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI)
went from taxed to overloaded. "Our flights peak at 199 flights per
day, and AirTran was running 48 flights per day," recalls Jimmy
Dickerson, manager of federal airport security technology for
Southwest. "Our CBIS could not by itself handle the combined baggage
for the two carriers."
Beginning in May 2011, design/build firm Vic
Thompson Company led a team through a three-phase, one-year project
that doubled the throughput of the system, upgraded the computer
control systems and completely renovated the TSA's Checked Baggage
Reconciliation Area (CBRA). The team achieved all this while
Southwest continued to operate and without changing the
configuration of the CBIS...[more]
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Runway/Ramp
Minneapolis/St. Paul Int'l Leverages Master Planning Process
Collaboration and ongoing updates go a long way in
supporting the master planning process at Minneapolis/St. Paul
International Airport (MSP). According to Dennis Probst, executive
director of planning and environment, the approach has been honed
over the years into one that involves all stakeholders and positions
the airport for measured growth.
Probst has been with the
Metropolitan Airports Commission (MAC), which oversees operations at
MSP, for 15 years and in his current position for four. He relates
that in 1989, MSP officials were directed to examine the
possibilities of staying at the current location and expanding, or
building a completely new airport. That effort became known as the
"dual-track planning process." After seven years of study and
analysis by MAC and a regional planning agency, officials decided
that the airport would stay at its current location. The same year,
1996, officials began building the airport's 2010 program...[more]
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