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“SILVER NOZZLE TROPHY” AWARDED
TO NEWARK FUELING COMPANY |
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Most outstanding airport fueling operation
The winner of the Silver Nozzle Trophy for the most outstanding airport fueling organization in the United States for 2008 is Newark Liberty Airport (EWR), Newark, New Jersey. Allied Aviation is the fueling operator exclusive to the entire airport. Newark is owned and operated by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and is one of the busiest airports in the country, serving both as a domestic and international gateway to the New York area. Newark averages issues of over 2,000,000 gallons of jet fuel daily. With 290 personnel operating huge hydrant and storage systems with 70 miles of pipelines and a fleet of over 100 trucks and vehicles, the Allied fuels team steps up and answers the call to duty 24/7. They have an enormous system and a huge mission. They stand out in every category - Management, Accounting, Operations, Maintenance, Quality, Inspection, Safety, and Environmental -- and they get the job done and done well. We at the NPMA are pleased to extend our congratulations to this great organization. Quality is not expensive ~ It’s Priceless. |
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Allied’s EWR staff and the Port Authority representative overseeing the Allied contact. (Back left to right, Robert DePasquale - Maintenance and Facilities Manager, Steven Guarino - Tank Farm Manager, John Bauer - Shop Manager, Rory McCormack - Operations Manager. Front left to right Robert Kudlacik -Port Authority and Walter H. Grigoleit - Allied’s General Manager. |
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JFK RUNWAY RESURFACING
SCHEDULED FOR MARCH |
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A major project is in store for JFK Airport, with travel ramifications that will exist for at least five months. Airlines are girding for more delays at New York City’s John F. Kennedy International starting March 1 when the already congestion-plagued airport shuts down one of its four runways for construction. The Federal Aviation Administration is forecasting delays equivalent to those seen during the clogged height of summer. The impact for the rest of the country is uncertain, but flight delays in New York can potentially ripple across the air-traffic system. The longest of JFK’s runways - a 14,572-foot strip of asphalt so long it serves as a backup landing site for the space shuttle - will be closed until July 1, according to the |
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Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. It will be resurfaced in tougher concrete, taxiways will be reconstructed, and new lighting will be installed, said Susan Baer, aviation director for the Port Authority. The improvements should help reduce some delays at JFK in the future, she said. |
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PORT AUTHORITY LIGHTS JFK
CONTROL TOWER GREEN |
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The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey honored the New York Jets as they prepared to participate in this Sunday’s AFC Championship Game by lighting a portion of the John F. Kennedy International Airport control tower in Jets Green. Beginning on Friday night prior to the contest, airport travelers and local residents found the exterior of the New York-JFK air traffic control tower adorned in green lights. While the “Green team” did not win the game, the Tower’s gesture did signify solidarity with New York’s sports teams. In October, the Port Authority, in collaboration with the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, participated in a kick-off event for Breast Cancer Awareness Month by bathing the air traffic control tower in pink. |
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| A SECURITY COLLAPSE OF MAJOR PROPORTIONS |
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I see two problems arising out of the Abjulmutallab case; one he should have never boarded an airplane bound for the United States and two, he should not be treated as a US Citizen who just held up a bodega. The man is a terrorist, not a criminal. The fault lies at the doors of our Security Heads and the Department of Justice.
PART I: The United States has 600,000 names on the Terror Watchlist but one of them was not Umar Farouk Abdulmatallab. On the face of it, few people on the planet should have triggered more airport alarm bells than the Christmas Day syringe bomber.
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The 23-year-old Nigerian was, after all, already a known threat. Last May he was refused entry to Britain and placed on a security list after he applied for a visa to study at a bogus college. In November his father, a one-time government minister and former head of First Bank of Nigeria, warned the CIA his son had been converted to radical Islam and wanted to wage war on the West. But aside from specific intelligence, the airport security system should have picked up something pecu- |
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| BOEING 747 MARKS A MAJOR MILESTONE |
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The fi rst jumbo jet made its maiden commercial fl ight 40 years ago today. More than 1,400 of the planes with their signature hump have rolled off the Boeing assembly line. Passengers mingle in a coach lounge aboard a 747 in 1971. “The plane ushered in a new era of luxury travel,” aviation consultant Scott Hamilton said. (Associated Press / January 20, 2010) It was the kind of plane that seemed to fi t the swinging go-go days with martini-swigging travelers lingering around a bar. Firstclass passengers dressed in their Sunday best made their way up a spiral staircase to get to the “fl ying penthouse,” harking memories of private rail cars. |
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| See BOEING 747 - page 2 |
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