Airport Improvement Magazine: June e-Newsletter

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Welcome to our June 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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Concessions

Airports Use Carts & Kiosks to Boost Concession Revenues

The movie Field of Dreams popularized the notion that "If you build it, they will come." But some airports are taking the corollary approach - not building additional concessions space - and customers and vendors still continue to come.

How are they leveling the playing field and staying in the game? By recruiting concessionaires that sell from pushcarts, kiosks and vending machines...[more]

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Runway/Ramp

San Diego Int'l Switches to LED Runway Status Lights

Despite the best efforts of air traffic controllers, pilots and ground support staff, runway incursions can still occur. One of the FAA's frontline strategies to help further reduce incursions - Runway Status Lights (RWSL) - took another step forward in November, when the system at San Diego International Airport (SAN) was updated with LEDs.

For SAN, the change to more energy-efficient fixtures dramatically reduces operating costs and maintenance requirements. For the FAA, it marks an important refinement in the pilot program that placed prototype systems at four major airports throughout the country: Dallas/Fort Worth International, Los Angeles International, Boston Logan International and SAN...[more]

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Runway/Ramp

Watertown Municipal Embraces Tenant Management

Although some in the industry may liken tenants managing their airports to inmates running their asylums, the arrangement makes perfect sense to others. Often, it's the owner of the local fixed-based operation (FBO) who assumes the lead role; and it usually occurs at small, general aviation fields.

James Coyne, president and chief executive officer of the National Air Transportation Association, predicts that such alternative management partnerships will become more common - within the next decade...[more]

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