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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.
Amazon is becoming a player in the logistics and shipping industry. That’s what analysts think about the recent expansion of Amazon Air to include 50 planes and several new regional hubs, including a $1.5 billion hub opening in northern Kentucky in 2021. According to Wolfe Research, the e-commerce giant is now handling its own shipping for 26 percent of online orders. Amazon said that it can “transport hundreds of thousands of packages per day” with its new “dedicated air network” and that its fleet of planes make “two-day shipping possible almost anywhere in the U.S.” “Amazon is looking to become…
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, Port Authority and Airport Developers are committed to local hiring as part of the ongoing $8 billion redevelopment of LaGuardia Airport. The project also issued nearly 850 contracts valued at more than $1.14 Billion to Certified Minority- and Women-Owned Businesses, advancing New York State’s nation leading utilization rate of MWBEs. Gov. Cuomo announced that more than half of the nearly 400 new hires for jobs ranging from cashiers to managers at LaGuardia Airport’s new Terminal B Concourse are residents of Queens. Between August and the end of December, Terminal B’s concession partners hired 374 new employees…
FedEx Corp. announced today that Gloria R. Boyland, Corporate Vice President of Operations and Service Support, has been named to Black Enterprise’s 2019 List of Most Powerful Women in Corporate America, the publication’s exclusive listing of the highest ranking and most influential African American female executives in the country. This special report serves as both a report on the achievements of women of color and as a resource for corporate influencers across the globe “Gloria has a long history as an extraordinary leader at FedEx,” said Raj Subramaniam, President and Chief Operating Officer of FedEx Corporation. “She has a remarkable…
On Feb. 21st, in honor of Black History Month, leaders from Queens and the Aviation Community got together to celebrate and remember all the deep history in our area. The event was held at Terrace on the Park, it was sponsored by Delta, LaGuardia Gateway Partners and The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. It was hosted by Assemblyman Jeffrion Aubry and Council Member Francisco Moya. The event was very well attended by residents and leaders in the community all with a powerful message of honoring history and respecting the sacrifices of those that came before them. The…
Mike Duffy and Mike Simpson will become Executive Vice President Innovation and Executive Vice President Americas respectively, reporting to Craig Smyth, CEO of WFS. Mike Duffy will use his considerable cargo and ground handling expertise, and industry network, to establish new ways of working, identifying and sharing best practice from across the business as well as taking advantage of new technologies. When he takes up this new role in April, he will work across all WFS regions and functions with the single objective of using innovation to make the business better. Using his strong financial track record across many different…
The International Air Cargo Association (TIACA) has appointed Flexport’s air freight director, Neel Shah, to its board of directors. Mr. Shah brings nearly two decades of experience to a board he previously served on between 2011 and 2012. Over the past two years, as global head of air freight at Flexport, he has been responsible for growing the U.S. forwarder’s air cargo activities. Alongside this, his CV boasts stints at U.S. carriers, including Delta and United, where he served as chief cargo officer and VP of sales and marketing, respectively. Tiaca chairman Sebastiaan Scholte said: “Neel has a strong track…
Sikorsky’s subsidiary Associated Aircraft Group (AAG) and Fly Blade, Inc (“BLADE”), a digitally-powered aviation company, announced an agreement today to provide a new on-demand urban mobility option in the New York City metro area. AAG is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company. Through the agreement, AAG will provide and operate a dedicated S-76C+ helicopter for BLADE, to be flown and maintained by Sikorsky pilots and maintenance technicians. BLADE also will gain access to AAG’s full fleet of Sikorsky helicopters, the largest in the Northeast, as needed. Additionally, the agreement establishes a working group to explore how…
Ahead of the highly-anticipated release of Marvel Studios’ Captain Marvel on March 8, International Women’s Day, Alaska Airlines unveiled a special-edition plane today, featuring Marvel Studios’ first female Super Hero lead. The Captain Marvel-themed plane was debuted today at Sea-Tac International Airport at a gate celebration for guests flying to Orange County, California. “This new plane featuring Captain Marvel will delight guests of all ages,” said Natalie Bowman, Alaska Airlines’ managing director of marketing and advertising. “We’re excited to showcase a pilot who’s risen to Super Hero status––an image that embodies strength and confidence and inspires future aviators across our expansive network to go further.” Decked…
Transportation Security Administration officers stopped 20 guns in the New York City region’s airports in 2018, the vast majority of which were detected at Newark Liberty International Airport, which recorded 14 gun catches. Overall it marked a slight increase from the 19 caught in 2017 and mirrored the national trend of an uptick in the number of firearms travelers have been bringing to airports during the course of the past several years. John F. Kennedy International and LaGuardia Airports however, each saw a notable decrease in the number of guns caught at checkpoints from the previous year, both of which…
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it has allocated $2 million to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to replace up to 80 model year 2006 and older short-haul trucks that service Port Authority facilities with cleaner, newer model year trucks by offering truckers up to 50 percent of the cost to scrap and replace each vehicle up to $25,000. “The Truck Replacement program is another example of how we are successfully partnering with the private sector by helping support businesses even as we clean up the environment,” said EPA Regional Administrator Pete Lopez. “Pollution…