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By Elaine PaniszczynAt the 17th Annual Boyd Group
International Aviation Forecast Sum-mit, Jeff Fegan, CEO of Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, gave an historical perspective of the airport in-cluding changes that have transformed it into a global portal. The event was hosted by DFW Airport Sep. 16 – 18at Intercontinental Hotel in Dallas.
Opened in 1974, the airport has celebrated its 38th anniversary. Fegan explained how the cities of Dallas and Fort Worth came together and decided to build a single airport in the middle of the metropolitan area.
“You can see that was a very wise decision by some very wise people,” Fegan said. “It’s an unconstrained fa-cility. We’ve been able to add infra-structure because our founding fathers
By Elaine Paniszczyn
Southwest Airlines’ CEO Gary Kelly talked about his compa-ny’s past, present and future at the 17th Annual Boyd Group Inter-national Aviation Forecast Summithosted by Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport at Intercontinental Hotel in Dallas Sep. 17.
Kelly said for his first two decades at Southwest energy costs amounted to 15 percent of their total operating cost. He saidthat now, fuel and employee costs combined is almost 70 percent of their total cost structure.
“It is a game changer, and in that sense it is a competitive change for us, a cost advantage for us compared to the rest of the industry, and probably the most significant that has occurred over the last decade,” Kelly said. “As we think about the future, I think it has to be thought of in the same context. I think prices will hopefully be pretty moderate from here, given all the new technology and sup-plies that have come on line, but sometimes the fundamentals will throw you a pretty bad curve. It has a significant bearing on what
Never too old: Octogenarian earns sport pilot certificate
Karl Klingelhofer of Tucson, AZ re-cently realized a long-held dream when he passed his checkride to earn his sport pi-lot certificate. Flying in an Ercoupe 415C owned and operated by PC Aircraft at San Manuel Airport, Karl got his ticket on Sep. 1.
Karl is 86 years old.The late-blooming aviator said flying
was a “bucket list” item after his wife of 60 years passed away in November 2008.
“When she died I had to form a new second half of my life,” Karl said. He put flying lessons on the top of his bucket list.
“Flying had always been a passion, but I preferred to use my money to travel with her,” he explained. They traveled extensive-
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On stage at the Aviation Forecast Summit, DFW Airport CEO Jeff Fegan is interviewed by event facilitator Michael Boyd of Boyd Group International.
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Energy costs most obvious game changer for airlines, says Southwest CEO
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n Public Intoxication September 11Officers were dispatched to TGI
Friday’s on a report of an intoxi-cated and uncooperative female at Terminal A, Gate 22.
Upon officers’ arrival, several passengers pointed to a female sit-ting at a table talking very loudly into her cell phone. Her words were slurred and incoherent most of the time. Officers detected a strong
odor of alcohol, and her eyes were watery and heavy
She said her boyfriend left her there alone and took the flight that she was supposedto have been on earlier in the evening. The airlines refused to fly her because of her intoxicated state and re-booked her for the next day. She stated she had been drinking because she was scared about being in a public at-
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mosphere. Contact was made with her mother who advised that the nearest person to take custody of her was in Corsicana, over an hour from the Airport.
Because nobody could pick her up and her extremely intoxicated state, she was placed into custody for Public Intoxication as she might be a danger toherself or others if left unattended.
After being placed in handcuffs, she was unsteady on her feet and had to be supported to keep her from falling at some points while en route to the transport unit. She was searched, placed and seatbelted into the squad car, at which time she began kicking the door and screaming. An officer transported her to the DFW Jail and upon ar-rival notified jail personnel that she was spitting at him.
n Bomb HoaxSeptember 11 at 8:39 a.m.Officers were notified of a re-
ported bomb threat onboard Amer-ican AirlinesFlight 1839 bound for San Antonio.
Communications advised a dis-patcher was on the phone with an unidentified male suspect who stated that at 7:30 a.m. he placed a bomb made of 20 pounds of “dy-namite and CMC” on the flight. The suspect said the bomb was in a black suitcase of average size and would be detonated by remote control. The male suspect said the bomb would be detonated if au-thorities attempted to “track them down” or contact his friend whom he stated was at the terminal.
Communications did not re-trieve the suspect’s phone number because the call came in on the non-emergency line. Communi-
cations did ask the suspect for his phone number, but he refused to provide it.
Dispatch advised the American Airlines Tower that the flight de-parted DFW Airport at 8:13 a.m. At 8:58 a.m. an officer notified Se-curity Operations Center (SOC) for American Airlines and Ameri-can Airlines requested DPS be on standby. Dispatch advised at 9:03 a.m. Flight 1839 landed safely at San Antonio and taxied to the gate. Dispatch said American Airlines was carrying out their security pro-cedures at that time.
n Public Intoxication September 11 at 11:26 a.m. Officers were dispatched to a
possible intoxicated person at TI-GIN Restaurant, located on the sterile side of Terminal D, near Gate 22. The restaurant manager said they had not served the cus-tomer any alcohol but did suggest some food because he was notice-ably intoxicated. The customer stat-ed he only wanted two beers. He became adamant that he wanted alcohol, even though he had been advised he would not be served al-cohol at that establishment, DPS was called.
When officers approached him, he was sitting in an airline wheel chair and had a set of crutches with him but no luggage. The man said he is diabetic and had just taken is insulin. He said he was just trying get something to eat at the restau-rant. He said it had been two hours since he ate some crackers.
When asked if he had been drinking, he said he drank peanuts. Several times he confirmed that he drank peanuts vs. eating peanuts. He also said he had just arrived at DFW on a plane from Ontario, CA
and that he did not drink on the plane because “they said I would be a liability for them.” When asked how much he had had to drink, he held up two fingers. He said he drank water.
When asked for identifica-tion, he handed the officer his cell phone and money. He was told to put those away and to get out his identification. Officers said the man seemed uncoordinated and said “I don’t know.” About that time, one officer noticed the man was sitting on his passport. An officer pointed to and asked to see it. He patted his pockets as if to search for it but could not find it. He eventu-ally located the passport and gave it to the officer. The man had a flight to Mexico and said his bags were checked.
Officers placed him under arrest for Public Intoxication.
n Public IntoxicationSeptember 13 at 10:14 p.m. Officers were on scene at Termi-
nal C, gate 19 when an intoxicated person became belligerent with a gate agent. Upon arrival, airline personal advised a male passenger, who was flying to New Orleans at atapproximately 10 p.m., was denied boarding due to his intoxi-cated state.
An officer said he smelled an alcoholic beverage on the man and that his eyes wereglassy and his movements very unsteady. The man admitted to having three drinks and became belligerent, shouting profane language at the officers and airline personnel. The man was es-corted to the public side, where he continued using profanity toward the officer. The man was placed under arrest and booked for Public Intoxication.
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TSA WEEK IN REVIEW
n Black Powder and Other Items Discovered During Bag Search – While resolving an explosives alarm at Grand Junction (GJT), TSA Of-ficers discovered three - 2 lb. cans of black powder, detonation cords, and a timing fuse. The passenger stated he was transporting property from his father’s home, which was used to remove tree stumps.
n Non Metallic Knife Discovered With Body Scanner – A non metal-lic knife was discovered in the ankle area of a Houston (IAH) passen-ger. The knife was found during a pat-down after being detected by a body scanner.
n Inert Grenades Etc. – Of-ficers continue to find inert hand grenades and other weaponry on weekly basis.
A Mark 24 shock tube initiator used to detonate explosives was dis-covered during a bag search at San Diego (SAN).
Three inert grenades were dis-covered this week: Two at San Francisco (SFO) and one at Nor-
folk (ORF).An inert 20 mm round was dis-
covered at San Francisco (SFO).Items in the Strangest Places –
Here are a few examples from this week where prohibited items were found in strange places.
A .22 caliber magazine was discovered wrapped in aluminum foil inside a DVD player at Fresno (FAT).
Sharper vision? A knife was
discovered inside a box of contact lenses at Milwaukee (MKE).
A cane sword was discovered at Albuquerque (ABQ).
n Stun Guns – Five stun guns were discovered in carry-on bags at checkpoints around the na-tion: Akron (CAK), San Francisco (SFO), New York Kennedy ( JFK), Birmingham (BHM), and Denver (DEN)
Source: The TSA Blog - http://blog.tsa.gov
Explosives materials discovered in Colorado
A Colorado passenger attempted to carry on cans of black powder and detonation cords.
In a civil trial that sounded like a real life James Bond spy novel, a Dallas County Jury awarded Southlake Aviation, owned by Dallas business execu-tive David Disiere, $32.4 million in damages against Houston based oil company, CAMAC International, its subsidiary CAMAC Aviation, and Mickey Lawal, CAMAC’s Vice President of African Operations.
The case stemmed from a scheme in which CAMAC International and its officers used a Gulfstream V jet leased from David Disiere’s Southlake Aviation to try to spirit more than ten thousand pounds of gold bullion out of the Democratic Republic of the Congo with help from General Bosco Ntaganda, a Congolese warlord.
Following the verdict, Southlake Aviation’s Presi-dent, David Disiere praised the jury’s decision, “twelve citizens saw through a smoke-and- mirrors defense put on by the CAMAC’s attorneys and clearly found that CAMAC caused my company to lose a$43 million dollar aircraft in a greedy scheme that violated the U.S. Trading With The Enemy Act.”
The jury heard riveting testimony from a dia-mond trader involved in the scheme describing how CAMAC executives Kase Lawal, Mickey Lawal and Kamoru Lawal arranged to exchange two-oversized suitcases stuffed with six-and-half million dollars in cash for ten boxes of gold delivered by General Bosco Ntaganda’s armed forces.
An investigation of the smuggling incident by the United Nations Security Council found that CAMAC
and its three top executives, Kase Lawal, Mickey La-wal, and Kamoru Lawal were dealing with “individuals operating in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and committing serious violations of international law involving the targeting of children or women in situa-tions of armed conflict.”
The Lawals who are Nigerian American brothers invoked their Fifth Amendment right against self-in-crimination hundreds of times during their testimony.
Houston energy executive, Kase Lawal the former CEO of CAMAC International and the current CEO of the publically traded CAMAC Energy Inc. was ap-pointed to a White House Trade Advisory position by President Obama and serves on the boards of the Houston Port and Airport Authorities.
David Disiere, the Dallas business executive and owner of Southlake Aviation, told the jury how he was shocked to get a call in the dead of night informing him that his company’s 43-million dollar Gulfstream V jet aircraft loaded with ten boxes of gold had been confis-cated in Goma by authorities in the Democratic Re-public of the Congo on Feb. 5, 2011. The jury’s verdict also included compensation of more than $535,000 for damage to the aircraft’s passenger compartment.
Testimony in the case and the investigation by the United Nations also indicated that former Houston Rocket’s basketball star Dikembe Mutombo acted as an intermediary in the gold smuggling scheme.
Source: Southlake Aviation
Southlake Aviation awarded damages in smuggling case
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By Phil CerroniThere will always be mysteries in our lives:
desire, passion, love and aliens. As one of the brightest stars in Texas, Irving may have caught the attention of some celestial travel-ers according to Pabitra Shrestha who posted a video of what he believes to be a UFO taken on September 5 outside of his Irving apart-ment.
“Me and my wife were watching TV, and I decided to go out and smoke. I thought the first time I saw it that it was a star. It’s shin-ing really bright; it was moving from one location to another location,” Shrestha said, recounting the night he saw a strange light in the sky. “It had different colors: green, red, yellow, all kinds. I saw those lights were far away, so I decided to go inside and grab my camera. I have my camera handy all the time because this kind of stuff really interests me. It was right over 161 and Rochelle.
“Actually, I was really curious. On the next day I went to take a look at the same spot in the sky and I saw the same object right over there,” he said.
Shrestha was convinced it could not have been any manmade object.
“I analyzed all sorts of possible things. Some people say it could be an RC plane, but it couldn’t be that far. I don’t think any remote control would fly that high in the sky.
“It cannot be an airplane because it has the multicolor, and it’s not blinking like an air-
plane,” Shrestha stated firmly. “Airplanes have definite colors blinking, but this one is not blinking. If it had been an airplane it would have been fast – it was actually moving really slow in one direction.”
This is not a new pursuit for Shrestha. He has been keeping tabs on the sky for quite some time.
“I am pretty much fascinated by this kind of stuff, because I’m more into science and as-tronomy. So I keep looking into the sky,” he said. “I recently bought this camera, because I’ve been seeing this kind of stuff, strange things, in the sky.”
Besides being the chair of the physics department at the University of Dallas, Dr. Richard Olenick has had an illustrious ca-reer as an astronomer. He did not agree with Shrestha’s conclusion that the object was of mysterious origin.
At first, Dr. Olenick thought the object in the video could be a satellite, but he quickly dismissed this possibility.
“There are things called Iridium Satellites that if they’re at a certain angle with the sun already set, they appear really, really bright
because they’re very reflective, and you see this bright light appear and disappear,” Dr. Olenick said. “It wasn’t that because there wasn’t one visible on the fifth [of September]. And also those last for maybe a few seconds; he had a minute [of video].”
After watching the video a couple of times, Dr. Olenick concluded that it was most likely an airplane.
“You’re getting these colors over here probably because of the heat. It’s fairly low so you’re getting distortions in the atmosphere a little bit,” he said. “It’s going through enough atmosphere and heat to give you that shim-mering and colors.”
Another aspect of the airplane theory is that Shrestha’s apartment is only a few miles from DFW airport.
“Most likely is an airplane that was ap-proaching,” Dr. Olenick continued. “I’ve seen this happen with planes in Love Field. They’re flying, and they’re coming towards you and suddenly you see a bright light for a while. Then they’re moving maybe at an angle away from you, and you see it slightly disappear.”
The last thing Dr. Olenick mentioned was
that the object’s erratic behavior was most likely caused by how far Shrestha zoomed in on the object.
“When you’re zoomed in, you’ve got very little field and therefore any slight motion moves it around a lot,” he said.
Despite any incredulous viewers, Shrestha insisted this is not the first unidentified ob-ject he has seen in the sky and been unable to explain.
“I’ve seen four or five different incidents,” Shrestha said.
“I was with my brother; it was morning. It was a big object, because all of us saw it: my brother, my friend and me. They didn’t be-lieve this stuff; they were not really interested. I do believe.
“If I tell this kind of thing to my friends, they’re baffled. They don’t really believe all these things. They say, ‘You are really crazy,’” Shrestha said.
“I think it’s a UFO, definitely. Some peo-ple do believe – and they see it; they believe it – but when they don’t’ see it with their own eyes, they don’t believe it. I don’t know if you believe it.
“Strange things happen in the sky. We don’t normally notice them; we don’t look up in the sky so you don’t actually notice. If you keep your eyes open on the skies, you see strange things.”
To see Shrestha’s video on YouTube, visit UFO sighting from Irving, TX on 09/05/12.
Slightly distant encounters of a known kind“Strange things happen in the sky. We don’t normally notice them; we don’t look up in the sky so you don’t actually notice. If you keep your eyes open on the skies, you see strange things.” — Pabitra Shrestha
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we think of the future and it just means that we need to be a little bit cautious.”
FArE inCrEASESSouthwest fares increased in the
last two months.“In 2008, when we had the really
serious run up in energy prices and put the whole industry in serious distress, significant fare increases were run through, and they have been compounded since then, and you can see the overall industry traf-fic result,” Kelly said.“I think there is a diminishing return from an in-crease in fare in 2012 compared to ’11 compared to ’10. On the other hand, at least at Southwest, we’ve continued to view growth in our revenue from a variety of tech-niques. It’s not just fare increases, so they are at least productive, but fares are going up a lot in four to five years’ time, so common sense will tell you that we have to be very judicious about that.”
Nevertheless, Kelly said that their traffic loads have remained high, at record or second to records set a year ago.
BAg FEESKelly commented on whether or
not Southwest will start charging its 100 million yearly passengers for bags. Southwest does extensive sur-veying of their customers and that scheduling and price are paramount in their choosing Southwest. Kelly thought a majority of customers would “perhaps grudgingly, but willingly pay an ancillary fee.”
“The issue is real simple: How many customers would we lose?” Kelly said.“And, at least when we initially made the judgment that we did back in (2008-2009), it was only five percent. To suggest that 95 percent of customers will behave exactly as they are today when you change the equation with bag fees, which are a total nuisance, nobody likes them, I just think its folly. The more modest the fee is, I think probably the less the defection. What you don’t know is: What’s the damage?
“In three or four years’ time, our market share across the country has gone up more than one percentage point.” Kelly said that computes to nearly one billion dollars. “South-
west’s brand rankings have not only sustained their previous levels, they have actually improved, and cer-tainly (in comparison) to our com-petitors in that period of time.
“Companies fight a lifetime to have a distinguishable market posi-tion and a distinguishable competi-tive advantage, and in my mind this was given to us on a silver platter,” he said. “We have a differentiated position in the industry that is be-loved by our consumers, and I think they will reward us for it.”
AirTrAn MErgErKelly said the merger process
with AirTran“is going very well. Its hard work, and we’re taking an airline that is more mainstream and turning it into something that is very different in the industry, so technologies don’t talk to each other. There’s construction work underway there. Our plan has been to integrate roughly a dozen airplanes into the Southwest fleet from AirTran, all 747’s, this year. We’ll end up doing 11, so that’s very much on track.
“We’ve got our single operating certificate in place as of March 1 as planned,” he said.“Coincidence with that, we launched the 737-800 fleet type into Southwest Airlines, so in a short period of time, we‘ve gotten a lot accomplished. We’ll be connecting the network with AirTranearly next year. It will take us to the end of 2014 to get all this wrapped up.”
He said Air-Tram’s 717’s will go straight to Delta and never come into Southwest Airlines.
“The real gaining factor here is the international, so we have to ready Southwest technology for in-ternational service, and there are 33 or so AirTran aircraft that are fully dedicated to international service,” Kelly said.
nExT FivE yEArS“I am optimistic that we will
see economic growth that will sup-port growth in travel and tourism and likewise in air travel,” Kelly said.“Hopefully, that will occur within a five year period. It’s been a very difficult decade, and air traffic has really been depressed in many cases. If you look over a 20 or 30 year time horizon, short haul traf-fic across the country is down sig-nificantly; long haul traffic is up significantly. I would hope that the short haul traffic trend bottoms and
begins to grow againin addition to growth in the median to long haul traffic.”
Fuel is the wildcard in that equa-tion and that it could turn out to be a hard five years ahead.
“All we can do as managers is plan and make sure that we main-tain the cultural health and the financial health of Southwest Air-lines, and we’ve done that for 41 years,” Kelly said.
“We are investing in our capa-bilities within Southwest Airlines so that we have more flexibility to make better tactical decisions in the short term because of much more challenging circumstances. That means a little more flexibility with the fleet, a little more flex-ibility with our reservation system, and better access to more market opportunities, like international. I think all those things will have us much more prepared for the next five years.”
LoW CoST proDuCEr“One of the prime reasons that
we are now the largest airline in America, we serve one in four cus-tomers that get on an airplane fly-ing Southwest Airlines, is because we have been the low cost produc-
er,” Kelly said.“So I would certainly appeal to all of our partners in the industry to do everything possible, first of all be safe, but also be very efficient because we all benefit by having more customers that can af-ford to fly.
“We just had an all-time record quarter this second quarter, and here we are 60 days later talking about the softness in bookings. It is an extraordinarily hard business and we’re all going to have to work together to stay safe, stay efficient, and be ready for tough times.”
Wright AmendmentAccording to Kelly, by the time
the Wright Amendment expires at the end of 2013, the Love Field construction project will be com-
plete.“For all practical purposes, we
will have a new airport,” Kelly said. “I think it will be a very good air-port. It will be fixed at 20 gates. The constraints that only allow for short haul markets will go away and we’ll be able to fly wherever we want non-stop over 48 states. So I think there clearly will be opportunities to add flights at that point.
“Love Field is languished. It re-ally was in serious decline before the compromise was reached in 2006. It was a microeconomic example of the larger issue I was describ-ing where around the country short haul traffic has been in pretty seri-ous decline, and so was Love Field.
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That trend has been arrested since ’06 when we could publish itiner-aries beyond what is now the nine-state Wright Amendment area, and that’s been healthy for Love Field.
“Love Field is always going to be in the shadow of DFW,” Kelly said.“DFW is one of the world’s largest and greatest airports, and there are other examples around the country where you have a very big hub airport which serves every-body’s needs and then a secondary airport like Love Field, or Houston Hobby, or Chicago Midway, and it works well for us. It doesn’t for most airlines, but it just gives con-sumers choice, and we’re looking forward to that. I think it’s going to be a good thing.
SouThWEST SErviCE“Things change; there’s no ques-
tion,” Kelly said.“I think from the prospective of the kinds of places that we can serve at Southwest, it’s actually expanding. Ten years ago, I don’t think that we had any concept that we could productively serve Panama City Beach or even Charleston, SC, so we’ve broken some old paradigms. We’re into New York LaGuardia, and again there was a time where we said we’ll never be there. So things change, and our relative competitive posi-tion changes. Our customer set may change, and all of a sudden, we can make those things work.
“The other thing that has changed: In 1990, we were “THE low fare airline,” so it meant by def-
inition, whatever airport we chose, that’s where low fares were going to be, and we could compete in a large metropolitan area at one air-port, because high fares were at the other airport. We played that game, I think, very, very well. That is no longer true. So now, we predicted this a decade ago, that now we are all in essence low fare airlines. Low fares will now be at every airport, and I think that has also somewhat changed our thinking.
“We’re an all 737 carrier, and so I think that the fact that we have 143 seats per departure defines the kind of a market that we can serve, and by the way, we are a big market airline,” Kelly said. “We don’t serve ‘little cities.’ If we do, if you want to think of yourselves as a little city, it is going to a big city. We don’t fly little city to little city.”
50-SEAT pLAnES ouTKelly said the price of oil is
bringing an end to airlines flying 50-seaters between small cities.
“Not that it was a bad airplane, not that it was a bad idea at the time, but $100 crude oil is a game changer,” Kelly said.“We have a lot of opportunities to grow Southwest Airlines. We’re not at the point where I feel like that’s the thing to do because we’re not hitting our return on capital target, but we are investing in our future with a lot of profit generating initiatives so that we can get to a point where we can grow the airline with airplanes and continue to add cities to our route. It’s all based on low cost and oper-ating at a competitive advantage in
that market. In that sense, it’s really not different from what it was 42 years ago.”
in ThE WorkS“The most visible opportunities
that we have a Southwest are with our fleet,” Kelly said.“We have five strategic initiatives underway. With our fleet moderation strategy, we are up gaging somewhat. We’re ret-rofitting our 737-700 fleet withnew, more comfortable seats. They’re thinner to the extent that it actu-ally allows us to get another row of seats on there. So we will be at a lower unit cost with those aircraft; and obviously six seats worth of ad-ditional revenue opportunities.
“The 737 is a sweet airplane. Its probably the most popular Boe-ing aircraft. Its certainly the most popular selling 737. Up until this year, we were exclusively with the 700’s, so it has 175 or 38 more seats, and again that is a way to efficiently drive down the unit cost. We’re working with all our employee work groups to figure out how we can eliminate waste and maintain this precious low cost position so we can maintain low fares.
“Our single biggest idea is fleet modernization, which also has the added advantage of having more fuel efficient aircraft. We’re very ex-cited about launching the 737 Max 8, which is the 800 version of the new airplane that will come in 2017. We have about 150 classic airplanes still left, and we’ll get those retired this decade. They are much less fuel efficient compared to what we can do with the other planes.”
American began implementing cost cuts for its pi-lots this month after a U.S. bankruptcy judge ruled the airline could abandon its collective bargaining agree-ment with the pilots union.
The airline, a unit of AMR Corp, said on Sep. 19 it canceled about 300 flights for this week out of nearly 24,000 departures planned across its network, includ-ing the American Eagle regional division. American cited factors including “an increase in maintenance re-ports filed by pilots, as well as levels of sick leave usage that have been running higher than historical norms.”
Flight Aware said cancellations at American have been well above the rest of the industry for the past two weeks.
“There is no simple problem that Congress cannot fail to fix,” said Kate Hanni, “but this problem must be fixed regardless of the lobbying dollars pouring in to Congress coffers from the airlines.
“American Airlines is simply referring their cus-tomers affected by these flight cancellations to their contract of carriage… why? Because their contract of carriage states all they get is a refund, herefore those customers are damaged in that they will have to re-purchase tickets at same day prices, or cancel their trips and often lose non-refundable deposits.
“It’s time that Congress or the DOT step in and solve this for the flying public; reinstate immediately the reciprocity rule and stop the madness.”
FlyersRights.org is recommends passengers book flights on other air carriers if AA refuses to put them on an interline carrier at no extra charge. However, if passengers have stacked up the frequent flyer miles they recommend passengers immediately book trips on AA or a code-share partner just to avoid the risk of losing those miles in the event AA shuts their doors.
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This year’s mAAgic flight will deliver these deserving families to Kissimmee, FL where they will stay at the 70-acre Give Kids The World Village®, conveniently located near popular Orlando attractions. Mileage for children and their families is generously donated by the American Air-lines Miles for Kids In Need® program. To date, more than 400 children have partici-pated in this annual event.
Bon voyage festivities took place in 33 airports throughout the American Air-lines and American Eagle network as the children departed their home cities. In ad-dition, connection and arrival celebrations took place at airports in Dallas/Fort Worth, Chicago, Miami and New York. These events were made possible by employee volunteers from American Airlines, Amer-
ican Eagle and American Airlines Federal Credit Union, include decorations, games and cheering volunteers for passengers as they begin their “mAAgical” vacations.
During their stay at the Give Kids The World Village, families will enjoy accom-modations in their own villa and meals on-site at the Gingerbread House Restaurant. The Village, complete with a wheelchair-accessible waterpark, an Ice Cream Palace, a movie theater, golf course and boundless playground, is specially designed to delight children of all ages.
“Their commitment is what guarantees this program – one that offers an extraor-dinary experience to families who have endured such hardship – will continue to thrive. We are so proud to be a part of this experience and look forward to continu-ing this partnership in the years to come,” said Craig Kreeger, American’s Senior Vice President – Customer.
More than $1.6 million in cash and in-kind donations have been raised to fund mAAgic flight and wish enhancements for children across the globe.
Source: American Airlines
Delta Air Lines’ eighth annual “Breast Cancer One” employee survivor charter took flight for the fight on Sep. 20 in advance of Delta’s October fundraising efforts benefiting The Breast Cancer Research Foundation. In memory of BCRF Founder Evelyn Lauder, Delta’s Boeing 767-400 signature ‘pink plane’ will be dedicated at New York’s LaGuardia airport in a presentation attended by her hus-band, Leonard Lauder, BCRF Acting Chair-man and Chairman Emeritus of The Estee Lauder Companies, as well as BCRF staff.
“Delta’s distinctive pink plane first took flight in 2005 and has flown around the world to highlight and help raise awareness and funds for lifesaving research efforts,” said Joanne Smith, senior vice president – In-Flight Service.
“This year, we dedicate our pink plane to the memory of BCRF founder Evelyn Laud-
er. We continue to be inspired by her tireless commitment and determination in the fight to find a cure for breast cancer.”
The pink plane also will be painted with a welcome message: “Thank You Delta Cus-tomers and Employees. Together We Have Raised $5 Million For the Fight Against Breast Cancer.”
“The Breast Cancer Research Foundation has found it so rewarding to work with Delta because they set the bar high and share our commitment to stopping this terrible disease,” said Myra Biblowit, President, BCRF.
Delta’s pink plane will fly from Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport to New York’s LaGuardia Airport with more than 140 employee cancer survivors from 19 different departments in 35 locations around the world.
Source: Delta Air Lines
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gave us 18,000 acres to work with. Today, we have five terminals, 174 gates, but the big thing is that we have seven runways at DFW Air-port and a lot of room to grow.
“We also have an extremely low cost structure,” he said. “We’ve been able to drive up revenue at DFW and drive down the costs to the air-lines. Right now, we rank second in the competitive set that we exam-ined. This cost represents not only the cost per plane passenger from DFW’s operation and debt but also the delay costs that are experienced at various airports. Our cost struc-ture is extraordinarily low, and we are very, very fortunate to be in that position.”
Fegan said the Airport focuses on customer service.
“In 2010, we ranked fourth in the world in terms of customer sat-isfaction for airports of over 40 mil-lion,” Fegan said.“The ones in front of us included Hong Kong, Beijing, and Dubai.
“We also are considered to be the economic engine of North Texas. We have $16 billion in eco-nomic impact, 268,000 jobs at the airport or related to the airport and about $7.4 billion worth of payroll annually. The real economic im-pact comes in what connecting the world has done to this region in terms of attracting business.
“Over the years, we have seen a number of corporate headquarters move to the Dallas/Fort Worth area,” he said. “(Many) of these are Fortune 500 companies. We have 18 of those. I think we have 22 Global 2000 companies at DFW Airport. AT&T recently moved their headquarters to Dallas, point-ing to DFW Airport as a major factor in their decision making pro-
cess. From (DFW), they can get to anywhere in the country and soon, anywhere in the world.”
CArriErS“We’re very fortunate to have
21 passenger carriers serving DFW Airport,” Fegan said.“Clearly, American Airlines is our largest carrier, with over 80 percent of our traffic, but we really have diversified our business quite a bit over the last 24 months. We’ve seen airlines such as Qantas start service to Brisbane and Sydney. Later this year, Jet Blue starts service to Boston. Air Mexico will be returning in November. For about a seven year stint, they were not serving DFW Airport.
“Spirit Airlines has 26 destina-tions that they will be serving from DFW by spring of next year, in-cluding three international. We also saw Emeritus, one of the big game changers for DFW, fly daily to Dubai. We have Cayman Air and Virgin America. KLM has also re-turned to DFW Airport. Those are just some of the recent changes that have taken place in terms of diver-sity of airlines.”
CArgo“The cargo business has just ex-
ploded at DFW, especially to Asia, with a number of new cargo com-panies,” Fegan said.“Last month Asiana Cargo started five 747’s a week. Korean continues to expand. We have most of the major cargo carriers from Asia serving DFW. We’ve also seen Air Cargo Ger-many start this year.
“There are 15 major cargo hubs that we provide direct service to. Singapore Airlines just this past month extended their service from DFW down to Brazil, so that is a penetration into South America by our cargo. Its moving cargo from Asia to South America, and it’s something that we’ve been working on and something that we think is very strategic for us in the future.
From a cargo standpoint, our fo-cus is penetrating more into South America.”
ToDAy“Today we are very fortunate to
be right, smack in the middle of the country,” Fegan said.“We have service to 144 domestic destina-tions, and you can get anyplace on the west coast or east coast in about three hours. Often, many business people in North Texas are able to fly to (Washington) DC and come back the same day. That has really driven a lot of businesses’ decision to locate in North Texas.
“Texas’ economy has also been very, very strong and has weathered the storm during the economic downturns since 2008,” Fegan said. “We also have 49 international des-tinations from DFW, and that is a recent phenomenon. We have great service, for example, two flights a day to Tokyo. This summer for the Olympics, we had five wide body airplanes taking off to London Heathrow each day. We have a lot of service to Mexico, South Amer-ica, Central America and more on the way. In fiscal year 2012 (we had) 3l new announced destinations, new airlines coming to DFW, more international.”
ToMorroW“We’re very, very excited about
the future, because when we look to the future, we do think there are some great opportunities and great-er recognition of this airport from an economic standpoint,” Fegan said. “The capacity of this airport and the cost structure of this airport also presents us as a very favorable product. Emeritus has opened up the Middle East and India, which is our largest uncertain market, and all of Africa as well is very, very impor-tant in the development of DFW.
“In the future, the biggest op-portunity for us is China. We have not had the ability to fly to China.
American’s pilot’s contracts will not allow for flights from DFW to China because of the time involved which exceeds their contract. Also, it is a long way, and there are only a very small number of airplanes that can make that mission. Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong should see service from DFW in the next five years. To Europe there are a number of destinations we believe we can support –Barcelona being one – also to Canada. We do not have service to Edmonton today. We serve 16 cities in Mexico, Cen-tral and South America. We could support service to Lima, Peru. South America is a big part of our future at DFW. We are forecasting about 26 new destinations in the next five years.
“We are in a very, very good po-sition as an airport in North Tex-as where the market is very, very strong,” Fegan said.“We have really unlimited capacity at our airport with seven runways and five ter-minals. We could easily build an-
other terminal without any major earth rigging activities. We have a good cost structure, a very strong focus on customer service, and a strong focus on operational excel-lence, so I think we present a very good product to airlines across the country and around the world, and hopefully we’ll see more growth in the future.
“When you look back to 1968 when the airport board formed, the visionaries actually drew the original master plan with eight runways. There was also a runway on the master plan that was 21,000 feet long to accommodate space travel at some time in the future. It’s the highest capacity airport in the world. We are able to land four airplanes simultaneously.
“Today, we move about 58 mil-lion passengers a year,” he said.“We are doing about 730,000 airport op-erations today, and our experts tell us we can do about 1.2 million with what we have today. That represents 100 million passengers yearly.”
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FlyersRights.org recently called on The Department of Transportation (DOT) to investigate and fine air-lines $27,500 per customer stuck on grounded planes in July.
The DOT announced there were 18 domestic flights stuck on the ground for longer than the tarmac rule al-lowed in July, making it the second-worst month since the policy took effect in April 2010, according to DOT records.
“It’s outrageous that any airline, in face of the fines
imposed by DOT, would violate the 3-hour tarmac rule” said Kate Hanni, Executive Director FlyersRights.org.
“But for the DOT to avoid fining these air carriers would truly be a tragedy in the face of July’s tarmac confinements.
“No other organization fought harder than Fly-ersRights.org to stop tarmac delays, and we will not stay silent if these events again become a part of the US air travel experience.”
Source: FlyersRights.org
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FUN AND GAMESEastwood graces screen in dad/daughter dramaTrouble with the Curverated: pg-13
Sports movies have been used as met-aphors for life for as long as I have been alive. So in many ways there is nothing “new” about the new drama Trouble with
the Curve. What this one does
have though is not only a very strong cast who work well together but also a nice blend of humor and tender mo-ments. It is certainly one of the few father/daughter films in the genre and one that may make dads step back and reevaluate some things; if they take the time.
Gus (Clint Eastwood) is a veteran base-ball scout who has signed more top notch players than anyone. He knows the game inside and out and more importantly can readily the man as well as the talent. He has devoted his whole life to his occupation and wants to do nothing else.
But old age, failing health, and young tech savvy execs may be the end of his ca-reer. When he goes out for what could be his last prospecting mission his estranged daughter Mickey (Amy Adams) tags along to watch over him. This could be their last chance for reconciliation and for Gus to make amends for never being there as a fa-ther; all while trying to keep his job.
This film can’t rely completely on the baseball background. Though there are lots of behind the scenes looks at the ins and outs of scouting, the bread and butter of this film is the father/daughter relation-ship. You have to be able to buy into the characters and engage in their struggle. If you lose that then the movie just becomes a bunch of stats and baseball trivia. Adams is very strong and her backbone and fiery stare easily matches that legendary steely gaze of Eastwood. The love/hate relation-ship the characters have solidifies the story line. It is one that can be related to.
Trouble with the Curve is rated PG-13 for language, sexual references, some the-matic material and smoking. I give it 3.75 out of 5 stolen bases. Although there is plenty to feel good about, it is also a very moving story about a man at the end of the road and his regrets.
Copyright 2012 Mungleshow Productions. All rights reserved.
MATT MuNgLE
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ly, visiting 43 countries over the years.Growing up in central Illinois, Karl en-
listed in the Army Air Corps Cadet Program in 1944 during his senior year, hoping to fly P-38 fighters. But that never happened as the war wound down and his cadet class shrunk from 50 members to 12 after nine months.
The only flights Karl was able to get while serving on the military were in a T-6 in Yuma
and in the bomb bay of a B-25 heading home on a furlough.
Fast-forward to Oct. 30, 2009, date of his first bucket list flight lesson at Marana Re-gional Airport, AZ, in a Remos LSA. He had nine other lessons before moving to the closer San Manuel. His first lesson there was April 23, 2010, in an Ercoupe 415C, with in-structor was Parrish Traweek of PC Aircraft.
“I didn’t have a defined goal at this time except to fly, learn to land, and get to where I could solo,” Karl said. He finally soloed on Sep. 21, 2010, but his instructor encouraged
him to continue training, and he did. He flew his first solo cross-country flight in April 2011.
He still had yet to take his written exam, so he focused on studying for that, ultimately passing with an 85 in March 2012. All that remained now was his checkride and he would be a pilot. Further encouragement from Traweek convinced him to go for it.
“You are a good pilot and you can do it,” his CFI told him.
After a trip to South Africa and his first visit to AirVenture Oshkosh, Karl prepared
for his checkride with Traweek and assistant instructor Jack McIntyre. He passed the oral exam, and even though his first scheduled checkride was weathered out, 10 days later – Sep. 1, 2012 - he passed and is now a certifi-cated sport pilot.
“What will I do with it? Who knows? Time will tell,” he said.
“My logbook shows 85 hours in the air, 15 hours solo, with 344 landings - 50 solo. Guess I am a slow learner.”
Reprinted courtesy of Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA). www.eaa.org
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