8-15-2015 KDEN DENVER INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT (33,531 acres) Denver, CO Four Nearby Instrument Airports: [KFTG] 8 SE ; [KBKF] 10 S ; [KAPA] 19 SW ; [KEIK] 19 NW ;(ave. distance: 14 nm) Total Based Aircraft:2 (2 multi-props) Operations & ATC: … Continue reading
Every year, industry representatives (including FAA and the lobbyists, of course!) meet at around this time, for the ‘Aviation Noise & Emissions Symposium’. The event is traditionally held in the Palm Springs area, but is at Long Beach this year. … Continue reading
Airline stocks have been tanking lately, in no small part due to strategy shifts by United. In a nutshell, United is trying to design a broad restructuring of its three domestic-focused hubs in Chicago, Denver and Houston. Why? Because this … Continue reading
Three months ago, the ‘Dissecting NextGen’ presentation was made in Des Moines, to help people better understand the impacts of NextGen around Sea-Tac International Airport [KSEA]. Included within that presentation was discussion of ‘Hub Concentration’ and ‘Route Concentration’, as two … Continue reading
Here’s a tip for how to very effectively expose FAA’s NextGen failure: study how ATC handles arriving flights during low-traffic time periods. For example, at the SeaTac Airport [KSEA], where Delta’s decision to start up a new hub in 2012 … Continue reading
As often happens, a good lead was tweeted regarding an interesting article. This time, @NoFlyDay tweeted with a link to an article by Ed Ayres, ‘Airports and Cities: Can They Coexist?‘, archived at WorldWatch.org. The article was first published in … Continue reading
The trend in aviation has been toward careful micromanagement of information, by both the airlines and the regulatory officials. So, when an airplane issue happens (an accident, an in-flight failure, or even a disappearing flight), or when ATC makes a mistake, it … Continue reading
A Hawker business jet departed the Centennial Airport [KAPA] at 11:03AM local time, carrying a passenger on a flight to Latrobe, PA [KLBE]. Had everything been normal, it would have landed less than three hours later. On this flight, though, a … Continue reading
The following table presents a chronology for the fourth quarter of 2014, showing all known ‘fatal’ U.S. aviation accidents, as well as some non-fatal accidents. Data shows date (weekends are underlined), location, number of fatalities, and a brief synopsis. Click … Continue reading
1ABEAllentown, PA — 108,108 Total Annual Operations (16% Commercial Ops & 55% Local Ops) 2ABIAbilene, TX — 65,409 Total Annual Operations (17% Commercial Ops & 38% Local Ops) 3ABQAlbuquerque, NM — 136,915 Total Annual Operations (62% Commercial Ops & 7% … Continue reading