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Metropolitan Airport News
Produced by a team of aviation professionals and enthusiasts, our mission is to inform and update the more than 68,000 employees who work on the metropolitan New York airport properties, as well as the many others that provide goods and services in the surrounding communities.
Keeping supply chain lines open is vital during the COVID-19 virus situation. To meet that need, Delta is dispatching idled aircraft on cargo runs to destinations around the world, with thousands of pounds of supplies. On Tuesday, Delta operated a cargo-only flight from Dublin to Atlanta carrying medical supplies, and expects to fly more between the Irish capital this week. More than 32,000 pounds of pharmaceutical supplies were loaded on the widebody Airbus A350, which touched down in Atlanta around 5 p.m. Also Tuesday, Delta dispatched two Boeing 777-200LRs to from Los Angeles to Sydney, Australia, with more than 80…
American Airlines is utilizing its currently grounded passenger aircraft to move cargo between the United States and Europe, ensuring the world’s goods continue to get where they need to go. The first cargo-only flight departs from Dallas Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) tomorrow, March 20, landing at Frankfurt Airport (FRA) March 21. The Boeing 777-300 will operate two round trips between DFW and FRA over the course of four days, carrying only cargo and necessary flight personnel. This is the first scheduled cargo-only flight since 1984 when American retired the last of its Boeing 747 freighters. The 777-300 has 14…
The Newark Liberty International Airport’s $500 million consolidated rent-a-car facility (ConRAC) project has been selected as the P3 Deal of the Year for the Americas, by Project Finance International. Conrac Solutions Capital leads the development team that closed Newark, the first privately financed ConRAC facility in the U.S. Financing closed in the spring of 2019 and included equity participation by Related Fund Management and Fengate Asset Management. PFI is an international resource in global project finance and capital markets information. The annual PFI Yearbook awards are the industry’s most prestigious annual awards presented in London in February of each year. …
For context: after 42 years of rocketing into space, the Earth’s most far-flung spaceship, the Voyager 1 space probe, has traveled almost 15 billion miles. Almost. Voyager is traveling over 38,000 miles per hour; it streaked past Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune years ago and has been in interstellar space for 7.5 years. Fifteen billion miles is enough for nearly three round trips to Neptune, the farthest planet in our solar system, or over 200 round trips to Mars. It’s enough to circle the earth at the equator about 600,000 times. It would take the average driver over a million…
Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) has announced key appointments to its leadership team in North America to support its air cargo and ground handling growth ambitions in 2020 and beyond. Paul Walton joins the company as Senior Vice President Express, responsible for all aspects of WFS’ Express business. He previously served as Senior Vice President of Sales and Commercial Operations for the Americas at Menzies and as Vice President of the West Region for Swissport Cargo Services. Paul started his early career working on the ramp in Pittsburg before being promoted to sales and general management roles with Ogden Ground Services;…
Delta is temporarily reducing the number of weekly flights it operates between the U.S. and Seoul-Incheon (ICN), South Korea, due to global health concerns related to coronavirus (COVID-19). From Feb. 29 through April 30, the carrier will suspend service between Minneapolis/St. Paul and ICN, with the last flight departing MSP for ICN on Feb. 28 and departing ICN for MSP on Feb. 29. Delta will also reduce to five times weekly its services between ICN and Atlanta, Detroit and Seattle through April 30. The airline’s new service from Incheon to Manila, previously scheduled to begin March 29, will now start…
JFKIAT, the operator of Terminal 4 at John F. Kennedy International Airport, announced its partnership with the U.K. based Sunflower Lanyard Scheme to offer customers traveling through the terminal a discreet way to alert employees that they may require additional assistance, support or time. T4 is the first airport terminal in the Northeast to offer these symbolic lanyards for customers with hidden disabilities, providing vital assistance to the passengers that walk through its doors each year who need additional assistance while traveling. The lanyards are available upon request from the T4 website. The lanyard, which includes a simple sunflower image on a…
JFKIAT, the operator of Terminal 4 at John F. Kennedy International Airport,recently hosted a special Carnival event for customers traveling through the terminal. During the event, recording artist and composer Kareem Thompson delighted passengers with a steel drum performance in the Arrivals Hall. Customers flying with Caribbean Airlines were offered special gift bags which included travel mugs and rally towels. Additionally, passengers were given postcards on the flight, inviting them to share pictures of their Carnival celebrations on social media. “As the international gateway to New York City, we are proud to host cultural celebrations and festivals from around the…
Delta Air Lines will pay out more than $1 billion in profit sharing, celebrating the outstanding accomplishments made possible by its employees around the world. The $1.6 billion profit sharing pool – a record for a U.S.-based company – translates to a 16.7% payout for eligible employees. “Delta would be nothing without our 90,000 people worldwide,” said Delta CEO Ed Bastian. “They deserve all the credit for our success, and we are proud to recognize their extraordinary work with a $1.6 billion payout – marking the sixth year in a row that Delta’s profit-sharing has exceeded $1 billion.” The airline…
JetBlue marked its 20th birthday, commemorating its first revenue flight between New York and Fort Lauderdale on February 11, 2000. Twenty years, 470 million customers, and 102 million bags of Terra Blue chips later, JetBlue continues to inspire humanity by combining great service with low fares for customers. “No one believed that a start-up airline in 2000 could survive 20 months, much less 20 years,” said Robin Hayes, chief executive officer, JetBlue. “But JetBlue proved that taking care of people and bringing low fares to the market could not only be a viable business model but could also completely disrupt an industry. Others have…