Airports

New developments at airports including regulations and noise issues; legal disputes; openings, acquisitions and mergers.

Airports

Oxford Airport Sold to Private Investors

Signature Flight Support parent BBA Aviation sold Oxford Airport in the UK to private investment group OA Acquisitions for £40 million ($80 million) late l
Airports

UK’s Oxford Airport Sold to Investors

Signature Flight Support’s parent BBA Aviation has sold Oxford Airport in the UK to private investment group OA Acquisitions for £40 million ($80 million).
Airports

DCA GA Access Plan Has Strings Attached

The strict security requirements of the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) just-released plan to reopen Ronald Reagan Washington National Airpo
Airports

TEB facing weight limits?

It’s too soon to know the fate of the so-called user-fee bills working their way through the sausage-making legislative apparatus in Washington, D.C., but
Airports

New Bill Threatens To Impose HPN Curfew

A bill that would give local authorities the right to enforce a nighttime curfew at New York’s Westchester County Airport has drawn criticism from NBAA.
Airports

HPN Curfew Bill Aims To Neutralize Nighttime Noise

A bill that would give local authorities the right to enforce a nighttime curfew at New York’s Westchester County Airport has drawn criticism from NBAA.
Airports

New Jersey airport reaches out to business aviation operators

Local airports frequently attract negative attention.
Airports

Changes urged for flights to DCA

District of Columbia congressional delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D) used a House aviation subcommittee hearing on the Essential Air Service program (EAS)
Airports

Tempelhof operators keep fighting airport closure

Berlin Tempelhof airport operators are challenging recent decisions by both a Berlin lower court and the city authorities to close the downtown airport on
Airports

Cancun To Get Second Runway

Those flying to Cancun may soon get some relief from the near-constant congestion and lengthy delays.
Regulations and Government

Appeals Court Upholds Naples, Fla. Stage 2 Ban

Both sides claim a measure of victory in last Friday's U.S.
Airports

French airports join forces to attract bizav

A group of French airports is exhibiting here at EBACE’07 to bolster their collective appeal to the business aviation community.
Airports

Switzerland’s smaller airports want more business traffic

Spurred by representatives from St.
Airports

Operators Seek To Keep Berlin Tempelhof Open

Berlin Tempelhof airport operators are challenging recent decisions by both a Berlin lower court and the city authorities to close the downtown airport on
Airports

NBAA Celebrates DCA Access, but Plan Not Published

The interim final rule from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) detailing all the hoops that general aviation will have to jump through to gai
Airports

More Bizav Airport Authorities Consider Stage 2 Ban

In a bid to cut traffic at Teterboro Airport, N.J., airport operator The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is proposing a four-pronged assault that
Airports

NBAA Sees Santa Monica Landing Fees as Good News

NBAA has welcomed news that a new landing-fee structure at Santa Monica Municipal Airport, Calif., was approved by city officials.
Airports

D.C. Flight Restrictions Might Be Permanent

The FAA proposed today to make permanent the so-called temporary flight restrictions in the Washington, D.C.
Airports

FAA Plan Leaves GA Airport Funding in Doubt

The FAA is facing questions about its proposed Airport Improvement Program (AIP) redistribution and its possible effect on the needs of small airports.
FBOs

Katrina Damage News Slow To Emerge

Lou Pepper, president of Atlantic Aviation, today told AIN he was “saddened and disheartened” by the lack of news about how the Atlantic FBO at New
Airports

Towers To Evaluate Merits of ’Taxi into Position’

The FAA said its notice to tower controllers to review the taxi into position and hold (TIPH) procedure is not intended to end the practice, as the Nationa
FBOs

NATA Says EPA Has Failed To Deliver

Since the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) revised spill prevention, control and countermeasures (SPCC) regulations in 2002, regional inspectors have
Airports

Port Authority Example Not an EMAS Save

In its announcement last week that more ESCO Engineered Materials Arresting System (EMAS) beds have been authorized for installation at Kennedy, Newark and
FBOs

NATA Appeals to Congress on EPA Rule

In a letter to all 535 members of Congress, National Air Transportation Association (NATA) president James Coyne highlighted what he calls “costly and ill-
Safety

NTSB Chairman: Runway Incursion System Inadequate

NTSB acting chairman Mark Rosenker said the FAA’s airport movement area safety system (AMASS) is not adequate to prevent serious runway collisions.
Airports

Chicago Hit with Fine over Meigs Airport Shutdown

One year ago this month the FAA said it would take legal action against the city of Chicago because officials failed to notify the agency 30 days before cl
Airports

London Luton Airport gets line maintenance

Hamlin Jet has joined with Northern Executive Aviation (NEA) of Manchester, UK, to open a satellite service center at London Luton Airport (EGGW).