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| TERMINAL 5 ART
EXHIBITION |
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Terminal Five will be hosting
an International Exhibition of
Contemporary Art
Terminal 5 is will run October 1, 2004
through January 31, 2005, 12pm-6pm,
Tuesday through Saturday. These former
TWA Terminal was designed by Eero
Saarinan and is now a landmark. Sculpture,
installation, sound, performance and
other media take place within the luggage
carousels, ticket counters, VIP lounges,
staircases and the tunnel walkway. The
terminal also hosts an airport |
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media lounge, airport gift shop and ongoing "Arrivals," a series of public events. We invite all airports employees to come and enjoy a memorable visit. |
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| PORT AUTHORITY SEEKS
PROPOSALS FOR FERRY
SERVICE BETWEEN LOWER
MANHATTAN AND JFK |
The rebirth of Lower Manhattan
received another boost as the Port
Authority began seeking proposals from
ferry operators to initiate service between
Lower Manhattan and John F. Kennedy
International Airport – a key component
of New York Governor George E. Pataki’s
transportation strategy to improve Lower
Manhattan’s mass-transit options and
enhance airport access in New York.
Ferry operators submitting proposals
for a JFK-to-Lower Manhattan route also
may include in their proposals additional
stops for commuter service in Far Rockaway.
Proposals are due in November. The
ferry slip at JFK will be located near an
AirTrain JFK station at Lefferts Boulevard,
providing a free and easy rail connection
for passengers traveling to and
from airline terminals. |
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| JFK’S TERMINAL 4 MARKS
BUSIEST TRAVEL SEASON |
As the peak summer travel season
winds down, operators of JFK’s Terminal 4
marked the end of the busiest summer
travel season since the new $1.4 billion
terminal opened in May 2001. A recordsetting
number — approximately two million
passengers — traveled through the
terminal since June, a 27% increase in
passenger volume over the same period
last year. This achievement is due largely
to the overall rebound in travel and particularly,
to the seven airlines that signed on
with Terminal 4 this year.
Joining Terminal 4’s roster of more
than 50 international and domestic airlines
are Virgin, Emirates, jetBlue, Copa,
Israir, Mexicana and Independence Air.
Represented in these seven are new, lowcost
start-up airlines, first time operations
to the U.S., and airlines already operating
at one of New York’s other airports or terminals
who chose Terminal 4 to best meet
the myriad needs unique to each operator. |
EASTERN AIRLINES
Gone but not forgotten |
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Airport Press received an interesting
communication concerning the return
to the sky of an old Eastern Airline
DC-7B and from this, we are going to
chronicle a short history of Eastern
along with information on the DC-7B
and it’s new “maiden” flight.
In addition, we are going to periodically
run stories in our upcoming issues on
some of the defunct air carriers including
Pan Am, Braniff, and TWA. If any Airport
Press readers have any interesting information
regarding these carriers, or if any
of you wish to have a group photo taken of
metro aviation employees who wish to
come together from their old airline,
please send us a fax (718-995-3432) or an
email ( Airprtpres@aol.com). |
| AN INTERVIEW WITH CUSTOMS AND
BORDER PROTECTION |
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Since her assignment
as Interim Director of
Customs and Border
Protection, Camille
Polomini, is aggressively
mapping out
plans and programs
to ensure that both
inbound and outbound
passenger and
cargo processes are
state of the art.
Ms. Polominia shared her thoughts
with Airport Press Staffer, Ed Garcia last
month in an interview; The efforts are
geared towards providing this protection
on our post 9-11 Security environment
while minimizing impact on travelers and
shippers time. It is not always possible to
make the process as simple and fast as it
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work
can speed the process, and make both
the traveler and the officials feel good
about it.
Major efforts underway at the
moment include the following:
• Integration of separate Homeland
Security departments into more
integrated units
• Accelerated anti-terrorism programs.
• Establishing priorities for terrorism targets
and allocating resources to meet
the more important threats.
• Establishing one uniform K-9 unit to
cover all airport uses of these especially
trained dogs.
• Anti-terrorism contraband teams.
• Passenger “roving” teams who will
determine where or when they feel
threats may emanate and direct
resources to those sites.
• Analytical teams who will screen
inbound flights for those that may pose
the most threats for a number of variable
reasons.
This will take a focus on getting the
best people and training them to do the
job. Intensive training modules are being
planned for all Customs and Border Protection
people within the coming months.
The challenge facing the staff is getting
the staff trained, establishing the processes,
getting the programs properly installed
and doing all of this without disrupting the
flow of passengers and freight traffic.
These are ambitious goals for this
department and we at Airport Press welcome
the intensity of the effort and ask
for the support of all airport personnel at
assisting Customs and Border Protection
reach there goals.. |
PORT AUTHORITY HOLDS
REMEMBRANCE SERVICE ON SEPTEMBER 11 |
Wife of Former Executive
Director Will Offer Words
of Comfort;
Daughter of Port Authority
Police Officer Will Light
Candles in Tribute to the
Fallen
The Port Authority held
an Interfaith Remembrance
Service at St. Peter’s Church,
Barclay and Church streets in
Lower Manhattan, at noon on
Saturday, September 11, 2004.
The service honored the 84 Port Authority
employees who were tragically killed on
September 11, 2001, in the terrorist
attacks on the World Trade Center.
Port Authority Commissioner Christy
Ferer Levin of New York, N.Y., whose husband,
Port Authority Executive
Director Neil D. Levin, was killed on
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September 11, offered words of comfort. Valerie Webb of Jersey City, N.J., daughter of fallen Port Authority Police Officer Nathaniel Webb, lighted two candles in a tribute. New York Governor George E. Pataki, New Jersey Governor James E. McGreevey and New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg also attended the ceremony. The program also included performances by Morris Robinson of the Metropolitan Opera and the St. Peter’s Church Choir. The memorial service was broadcast live by NJN Public Television for viewers in New Jersey. NY 1 broadcast the ceremony live in New York. |
| AIRPORT NEWS |
| NATION’S FIRST MAJOR AIRPORT POST 9/11 |
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How often does a brand new airport
become developed; especially in the current
situation with tough environmental
standards and the concerns of nearby
neighborhoods and businesses. But the
newly developing Bay County Airport in
the Florida panhandle seems to have
designed and implemented a business
plan so thorough, and showing concern for
all constituencies, that they will have a
clear shot at developing this airport in
record time.
The new airport will be situated about
midpoint on the Florida
panhandle between the
capital city of Tallahassee
and the town of Pensacola.
It is in the midst of a
large U.S. military infrastructure
area and not far
from major roads running
east and west through the
panhandle. One can envision
freighters using this
as a fast way to get their
products to and from
Latin America and into
the American heartland.
Late last month, representatives
from The St.
Joe Company and Bay
County, Florida, economic
development officials
were in New York meeting
with site selection
consultants to
showcase the West
Bay Sector Plan, a
74,000-acre longterm
land-use plan
on the Gulf Coast in
Northwest Florida.
Attending the meeting
was the Editor
of Airport Press,
Joe Alba.
The plan’s
c e n t e r p i e c e
involves the relocation
of the Panama
City airport. As
the first post-9/11
airport development
in the U.S.,
the Panama City-Bay County International
Airport has the opportunity serve
as a prototype for a state-of-the-art airport.
Nathan Sparks of The St. Joe Company,
said, “ We have a novel opportunity
to design state of the art security systems
and processes for both passengers
and cargo and this will make us more
efficient, and make it a lot easier and
customer friendly.”
Interestingly, state and local environmental
leaders strongly support the airport
relocation effort because the West
Bay Sector Plan provides the opportunity
to create a 37,000 acre conservation area,
including nearly the entire shoreline of
West Bay.
Ted Clem, Executive Director of Economic
Development for the airport said; “
Never in my experience have I seen environmental
officials pushing harder to get
the project started. It is a reflection of the
care demonstrated in designing an environmentally
friendly airport, as well as the
area around the airport.”
The planned opening date is 3rd quarter
2008 but don’t be surprised if they finish
sooner. |
LONG ISLAND AIRPORTS
AN INTERESTING JOURNEY THROUGH TIME |
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The just released
book, “Images of
Long Island
Airports” has been
just released and is
now available at your
local book store. Published
by Arcadia
Press, the book’s
author is well known
air enthusiast and
curator of the Cradle
of Aviation Museum,
Joshua Stoff.
The first successful
intercontinental
flight originated in Long Island in 1911
when Cal Rodgers took his Wright EX “Vin
Fiz” across the United States in 49 days.
The flight took off from Sheepshead Bay in
Brooklyn at the site of a Race Track converted
into a airport. This is only one of the
little known facts about our place in world called Long Island which is known for many
things, but may not be known as a pioneering
location for the birth of aviation.
At one time, fields stretched across
the entire length of Long Island from
Sheepshead Bay to Montauk. There were
airfields in Valley Stream, Islip, St James,
Bethpage, Mineola and in many more locations.
We may know more about the ones
with notoriety, such as Mitchell Field and
Roosevelt Field. Or we may know about
the aircraft developmental fields used by
Curtiss and Republic. But the amount of
fields and how they were used and developed
surely opened my eyes. How many
Airport Press readers know that at one
time, Roosevelt Field had the most flight
leaving it’s runways than any other airport
in the United States.
As the book states, “Long Island is a
natural airfield. The center area of Nassau
County – known as the Hempstead Plains
– is the only natural prairie east of the
Allegheny Mountains.” The author further
states that, “Through one hundred years
of aviation history, Long Island has been
home to 80 airports.” This was easily the
most dense concentration of airfields of
any place in the United States and more
likely, the world.
There are also vintage photos of our
own airports taken in earlier days; JFK
which was previously known as New York
International and then Idlewild Airport
and, of course, LaGuardia.
It’s worth a read. |
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