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Metropolitan Airport News Editorial Contributors

Here’s a list of all of our authors.

Ed Garcia is a Navy Veteran with more than 37 year experience with TWA and American Airlines at John F. Kennedy Airport (JFK). During his career at JFK, Mr. Garcia held positions in sales, service, management and marketing. Mr. Garcia most recently has been the director of sales for a local newspaper. Mr. Garcia has a bachelor’s degree from St. Francis College. Mr. Garcia spent 10-years as the sales director for the Airport Press.2 Articles

For a number of years Nicosia has written about entertainment, arts, culture, and conservation issues, but more recently she has started writing about the aviation and airline industry. Nicosia has worked for several years in customer service with the cargo industry.1 Articles

Civil Air Patrol, the official auxiliary of the U.S. Air Force, is a nonprofit organization with 58,000 members nationwide. CAP performs 90 percent of continental U.S. inland search and rescue missions as tasked by the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center and was credited by the U.S. Air Force with saving 155 lives in fiscal year 2018. Its volunteers also perform homeland security, disaster relief and counterdrug missions at the request of federal, state and local agencies. The members play a leading role in aerospace education and serve as mentors to more than 25,000 young people currently participating in CAP cadet programs. CAP has been performing missions for America for 67 years. For more information, visit www.gocivilairpatrol.com.1 Articles

Michael Taylor is managing director of travel, hospitality, and retail at J.D. Power. He is responsible for providing industry thought leadership and business improvement recommendations to the company’s clients in the airline, airport, and car rental segments. He works with airports around the world. Additionally, he develops insights on other airport topics such as concessions, services, and security. Mr. Taylor has also worked with nearly all major North American air carriers and major rental car companies to measure and manage customer satisfaction and loyalty.1 Articles

First as a Civil Air Patrol cadet – then as a pilot – Mike found that “altitude affects attitude.” With that in mind, his focus now is to interest the next generation in aviation and is founding a weekend av camp in northern Arizona for kids – Little Brothers. He is also active in his aviation business and spends time writing about its history when not hiking in the mountains.1 Articles

One of the recurring comments overheard in elevators and around water coolers at the Port Authority is there aren’t many people who are aware of the really cool transportation stuff the agency does every day. These stories rarely make the news cycle. Not many of us would pause anyway to think about the intermodal freight system that delivers fresh fish to our region, while out dining at a restaurant on Alaskan sockeye salmon.1 Articles

Pamela Sakowicz Menaker is the Communications Partner at Clifford Law Offices. As an attorney with two degrees in journalism from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, Pam combines her experience in these two fields in handling the press in the many high-profile cases handled by the firm.1 Articles

Craig Pieper is the Editor in Chief and Founder of Aero Crew News, and is responsible for the content, layout design, website, and organization of the material for the magazine. Most recently he founded Pilots Against Laser Strikes, LLC and is the President. He obtained his Bachelors of Science in Aeronautical Science along with a minor in Aviation Weather from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in 2001. Since then, he was also the founder of another company called Pieper Training Aids. Pieper Training Aids manufactured two aviation-training devices, they were known as Holding Pattern Aid and Inoperative Instrument Aid. These products can still be found in some stores across the United States. Craig has also worked as a Computer Aided Drafter and Designer in the Architecture industry for over fifteen years and continues to do so to this day. To top all of this off, Craig is also a Captain for a regional airline with a type rating in the Embraer 145 and has logged over 6,000 hours of flying time.1 Articles

Having what might be described as an encyclopedic lifetime knowledge base of U.S airline history (especially during the Jet Age period, 1958-78) Shea has crafted multiple feature articles on airline history topics for Airliners Magazine. He is Book Review Editor (and a feature article contributor) for the Captain’s Log, the quarterly journal of the WAHS, as well as being a regular author of articles covering airline history on NYCaviation.com, a highly successful and respected weblog known far beyond the New York area. In recent years he has become part of the New Jersey Aviation Education Council and the Airline Historians/Archivist Association.1 Articles

Dawit Habtemariam writes daily stories, conducts research and assists BTN’s editorial staff. Before joining BTN in 2017, he wrote instructive content for Fortune 500 executives and startup founders.1 Articles

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