The hunt for $$$: user fees, tax-free bonds, new parking facilities, ticket taxes, and acronym groups out the yingyang. It all boils down to the fact that everybody is hunting money. Airports need to cut costs and increase income. The airlines and the guvmint are no longer reliable sources of steady income. In fact, both are trying to divert their own costs to the airport.(GROUND CLUTTER) Airport Business (7/1/2005)
...pricing at horribly over-crowded airports. (Some 30 years ago, Stage III airport areas were a new thing, and the guvmint...cooperated fully until someone told me the airports counted my call as IFR handling, thus...airwaves, exactly why I disagreed.) Airport ...
Furby's Gospel: Acronyms.(Features) The Mirror (London, England) (9/8/2000)
I WAS surprised to learn that an acronym for one of the unions for airport workers in the South is IMPACT. Presumably, a fire brigade union would be called INFERNO, a hospital union INFECT and a political party Fianna FAIL.
Cracking the airport codes No JOY, but YOW, YUL have FUN Chicago Sun-Times (10/31/1999)
...seems reasonable enough as an acronym for Los Angeles International...Chicago, or OGG for Kahului airport in Maui, Hawaii? And with...run out of old-fashioned airport names soon, the way we have...With three letters to each airport code name, the system has ...
Continental Airlines Considers Bringing Service to Gainesville, Fla., Airport. Ocala Star-Banner (Ocala, FL) (9/9/2002)
...Crider said. At present, the airport features service by Delta...Go," with "Go" being an acronym for Gainesville/Ocala. "Gainesville's airport is getting ready to blanket...market is "leaking" to other airports. "We realize there is significant...not object ...
Bangor, Maine, Airport Is Attractive to Regional Jets, Expert Says. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News (6/15/2004)
...turned to Boyd to help save the airport. Regional jets provided a...a solution many smaller airports in the same predicament embraced...three-letter international airport code, instead of "BIA...airlines are familiar with the airport code instead of the ...
Texcoco Airport Site 'Impossible,' Experts Say. Internet Securities (12/7/2000)
...Mexico City's alternative airport at Lago de Texcoco, in the...literally be to construct the airport on mud, University of Chapingo...Movement (MEM, as a Spanish acronym) President Alfonso Cipres said an airport built at Texcoco "would be...
PALMDALE AIRPORT PLAN ADVANCES.(News) Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) (10/20/1999)
...Tuesday by the Los Angeles Airport Commission. PMD is the acronym being given to Palmdale Regional Airport under the contract calling...the Los Angeles World Airports department to develop...Angeles International Airport. ``This agreement...
Representatives Use Delays at Las Vegas Airport to Chastise Security Officials. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News (2/13/2004)
...congressional hearing on airports Thursday lasted almost...McCarran International Airport. Complaints about long...at McCarran and other airports dominated the hearing...airports. "There are two acronyms that people hate the...procedures ...
ASR's Breach Report.(Airport Security Report) Airport Security Report (8/25/2004)
...July 23 - Palm Beach Int'l Airport, Fla. (PBI) AREA*: 3...July 23 - Hamilton Island Airport, Australia (HTI) AREA...guards are employed at the airport to screen passengers and bags...been a man's name or another acronym. DATE & SITE: July 28 - Inchon...
King glad to help rally Peotone airport foes Post-Tribune (IN) (4/14/2001)
...rally organized by Shut This Airport Nightmare Down, a well-known, anti-Peotone airport group that goes by the acronym STAND. He said he might also...banners denouncing the proposed airport. "Everything permitting...congestion at busy Chicago ...
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