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2005-08-25 Airport Advisory Board Agenda and notice
CANCELLATION NOTICE THE CITY OF DANIA BEACH AIRPORT ADVISORY BOARD MEETING SCHEDULED FOR THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 20057 HAS BEEN CANCELLED . AGENDA fs DANIA BEACH AIRPORT ADVISORY COMMITTEE AUGUST 25, 2005, THURSDAY 7:00 P.M. 1. ROLL CALL AND SELF INTRODUCTION 2. EXCUSED ABSENCES 3. MINUTES 3.1 APPROVAL OF MINUTES OF MEETING JULY 28, 2005 4 ELECTIONS a. ELECTION OF CHAIRPERSON b. ELECTION OF VICE CHAIRPERSON c. ELECTION OF SECRETARY d. ELECTION OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY 5. PRESENTATION OF SUB COMMITTEE REPORTS. 5.1 DISCUSSION OF RUNWAY PROJECT, MASTER PLAN UPDATE & PART 150 PROJECT, EIS UPDATE, TASK FORCE UPDATE, WEB PAGE STATUS. 5.2 NOISE ABATEMENT COMMITTEE MEETING DISCUSSION 5.3 PRESENTATION OF ANY MEMBER RUNUP LOGS 6. UNFINISHED BUSINESS 71 NEW BUSINESS 8. ADJOURN A REMINDER FROM THE CHAIR: ALL COMMITTEE MEMBERS WHO ARE UNABLE TO ATTEND THIS MEETING SHOULD WRITE A NOTE TO DANIA CLERK STATING YOU WILL BE ABSENT OR YOU WILL BE CHARGED WITH AN UNEXCUSED ABSENCE. THANK YOU. SEE YOU AT THE MEETING. City of Dania Beach Airport Advisory Committee July 28te,2005 Chairman JayField called the meeting to order at 7:00 PM. g The following members were present: Jay Field Beulah Lair Rae Sandler Bud Witz Zachary Adams Thomas Allen Betty Sokol Dick Sokol Members absent: Beverly Worley Charles Fischer Billy Phipps Ed Summers Chairman Field announced that Ed Summers had a stroke and will probably not be able to attend board meetings for quite some time. Board members signed a"Get Well" card to send him. Bud Witz, seconded by Rae Sandler,made a motion to grant an excused absence to Ed Summers and Billy Phipps. Motion carried. It was noted that Charles Fischer has been reached by phone for the June and July meetings and both times said he planned to attend. Beverly Worley has not returned phone messages and may be out of town. Minutes of the June 23rd meeting were presented for approval. Motion to approve made by Beulah Lair, second by Rae Sandler. Minutes approved as written. The next order of business was scheduled as election of officers. After a lengthy discussion, once again the board decided to postpone the election until the next meeting because of poor attendance. Beverly Worley and Charles Fischer were both appointed by Commissioner Flury. They have not attended a meeting. Commissioner Bertino has appointed only one person. His inaction leaves two vacancies. Commissioner McElyea appointed two people, one of them being Ed Summers. Mr. Summers is unable to attend therefore there are two more vacancies. The board agreed it is very difficult to accomplish anything worthwhile without complete cooperation. An appointee from the northeast section of Dania Beach might be very helpful since none of the present board members are from that neighborhood. It was suggested the board members contact their commissioners in an effort to encourage them to fill the vacancies with interested people so the board can be successful. A motion was made by Beulah Lair, second by Betty Sokol to delay election of officers until the August meeting. Motion carried. 1. The board next discussed recent newspaper articles regarding landing delays at the airport Beulah Lair just returned from a trip and stated she experienced absolutely no delays. Zack Adams commented the landing problems at the airport were largely a matter of a dedicated program between the Broward County Commissioners and the previous air traffic management in order to build delay statistics. He again suggested the new control tower manager be invited to speak to the board but said he was reluctant to have him come to speak to such a small audience. It was suggested he be invited to the September meeting and an effort be made to have a good turn out. The use of the diagonal runway and the south runway were briefly discussed. There being no further business to bring before the board,the meeting was adjourned by Chairman Field at 7:50 PM. Jay Field, Chairman Respectfully submitted, Suzanne Witz 2. Spacer Spacer Spacer Spacer Spacer Spacer HOME ( NEWS I SPORTS ( ENTERTAINMENT I CLASSIFIED I BUSINESS I WEATHER SHOPPING I http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-cairportl 5aug l 5,0,5150116.story?coll=sfla- news-broward Homeowners protest Broward airport expansion Coupons! By Thomas Monnay Staff Writer August 15, 2005 DANIA BEACH • Five years after losing his home to an airport expansion project in San Diego, Albert Denny, a retired flight engineer, finds himself on the frontline again. This time he is fighting a massive expansion that would force him and more than 400 homeowners in the Melaleuca Gardens neighborhood to vacate their properties near Griffin Road, just south of the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. "We're definitely against it. We don't need it one way or another," Denny said. "I've been through this once already. Enough is enough." On Sunday, the 75-year-old man battled heat and humidity as he joined about 75 people holding signs and banners urging Broward County commissioners to help them stop the FAA's decision to lift flight restrictions on the airport's south and crosswind runways. The expansion, which might result in the county taking over land in the Melaleuca area, could take years to occur. But opponents noted that lifting flight restrictions would affect them immediately because they already have been affected by planes flying over their homes. County Commissioner John Rodstrom, the group's main sympathizer whose district includes Hollywood and Dania Beach, shared their concerns. "It's going to ruin our quality of life," he said. Save Our Shoreline organized the gathering in front of the airport's Community Information Office, 550 NW 10th St., to galvanize opposition and make residents' position known. Officials from Dania Beach, Hollywood and Davie have been fighting a plan to expand the south runway to between 8,000 and 8,500 feet to reduce flight delays and accommodate the growing number of passengers using the airport. But recently, they have become more aggravated since the FAA decided to lift flight restrictions on the south runway, currently limited to propeller planes, and on the emergency crosswind, diagonal runway. While the FAA's move stemmed from escalating flight delays at the airport--almost 5,000 flights between January and April 2005, compared with 3,000 in 2004--opponents say the problem is self-inflicted. They say airport authorities could do a better job managing flight scheduling and separating small and big planes landing at the airport. The FAA must conduct an environmental study and address mitigation for people already affected by airport noise, said Brenda Lee Chalifour, a spokeswoman for the nonprofit Save Our Shoreline. "Bottom line: You will have more noise; you will have more problems," she said. "You must do the environmental study before lifting the restrictions." County commissioners in June agreed to go to court to stop air traffic controllers from using the emergency runway because the measure would affect residents in Dania Beach south of the airport, southwest Fort Lauderdale and as far as Davie in southwest Broward. Chalifour and Bob Anton, a Dania Beach commissioner, said Dania would file a similar court petition by Aug. 22. Debora Van Valkenburgh, of the Chula Vista neighborhood civic association in southwest Fort Lauderdale, said opening the crosswind runway to airplanes would further deteriorate living conditions in her neighborhood, where people are kept awake by plane noise day and night. "We are severely impacted by expansion activities. We are right in the path of 13/31 [the crosswind],"Van Valkenburgh said. "We want them to manage the airport better. We want them to cap the gates. That's enough." Bernie and Stephanie Osborn, of the Forest Ridge community near Pine Island Road in western Davie, say they and their two children, Kyle, 6, and Joshua, 8, sometimes can't sleep at night because of planes flying over their development. "I'm very concerned about the expansion, and county commissioners need to address the current noise impact now," said Stephanie Osborn, a member of the Davie advisory committee. Thomas Monnay can be reached at tmonnay@sun-sentinel.com or 954-385-7924. Copyright @ 2005, South Florida Sun-Sentinel Spacer Spacer Spacer Spacer Spacer Spacer HOME I NEWS I SPORTS I ENTERTAINMENT I CLASSIFIED I BUSINESS I WEATHER SHOPPING I http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-crunway04aug04,0,5455931.story?coll=sfla- news-broward Broward officials threaten action against FAA for using runway at Lauderdale airport By Ken Kaye Staff Writer August 4, 2005 A Delta-Song Boeing 757 took off from Fort Lauderdale on Wednesday into a smooth, sunny sky --and created angry turbulence on the ground. The jet was the first of eight aircraft to depart from the diagonal runway at Fort Lauderdale- Hollywood International Airport between 10:06 and 10:23 a.m. The control tower instructed them to do so to ease delays on the main east-west runway. That prompted Broward County officials to cry foul. They claim that in allowing the departures, including two jetliners, five commuter planes and an air taxi, the Federal Aviation Administration breached a 1998 agreement that the diagonal runway would be used only under two specific circumstances. Those include meteorological conditions or closing of main runway because of an emergency or repairs. Whenever Runway 13/31 is used, residents in northeast Dania Beach and southwest Fort Lauderdale protest the noise. "It was an unauthorized use," said Tom Jargiello, director of the Broward County Aviation Department. "It was not attributable to either of those two conditions." One of the fastest growing airports in the nation because of the booming low-fare carrier market, Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport has been plagued by delays in recent months. As soon as Broward aviation officials saw planes taking off to the southeast on Wednesday, they complained to Robert Berlucchi, the FAA air traffic manager in the control tower. Fearing such departures could become routine, Jargiello then fired a letter to Berlucchi, saying, "We would request that you cease and desist this practice" in light of a number of legal actions and agreements between Broward County and the FAA. Berlucchi did not immediately see the letter because he spent the day meeting with county officials and neighborhood representatives to discuss the runway problem, but he will respond, FAA officials said. Broward County Attorney Jeff Newton said the county last week appealed to the FAA not to allow the diagonal runway to be used based on "operational necessity." "Unless there is some informal resolution," he said the county plans to file a petition in the federal appeals court in the District of Columbia by Aug. 22, requiring that the FAA cease using the diagonal runway as a means to relieve congestion. FAA spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen said the agency made clear to the county in a June 23 letter that Runway 13/31 would be used "based on traffic demands." "The runway has been in use sporadically since we sent the letter on June 23," she said Wednesday. "It was used today because of operational requirements." One of those irritated by the eight aircraft departures Wednesday was Dania Beach Mayor Ann Castro. "There are a lot of people in Fort Lauderdale and Dania who are subjected to a lot of noise. And now they're adding to it,"she said. Ken Kaye can be reached at kkaye@sun-sentinel.com or 954-385-7911. Copyright©2005, South Florida Sun-Sentinel r� Horizon Airlines Bombardier Dash 8- Standard Average Passenger Wei' hts 200 captain and former computer pro- .,a , s r t = grammer, established a calculating ,. Average adult passenger weight 190 method using a PDA that Mark Riely, f Horizon's manager of compliance,calls Adult male 200 "pretty slick."All Horizon pilots use the Adult female 179 Johnson method on their PDAs. Child 2-t3, 82 s .. , Similarly, in Canada an accident � � W� �_ r A g {f. $ nr, �aa'19'•.�,w3,rw.,nS ^,� .PF�rwn4fiv" akhP �4�`'.L?.ia4.+r..,.b.rY,r. "n. prompted a review of weight-and-bal- ance control procedures.A Cessna 208B, ult mate. 205 operated by Georgian Express,crashed Jan. 17,2004,off the western shore of Aduh female 184 Pelee Island in Ontario.Within days,the CIU td 2-,13 87 R� Transportation Safety Board recom- *Includes 1C.lb:for perscirt items and.!carry , Transportation bags mended operators of aircraft seating nine New averages for passengers are based art accost vvetghing passengers or less use actual weights.Its As under,a National�Centen�:fvr E}isease Control prograre-Ik review resulted in revised regulations tween'summer'and winter weights reflects heat/er uviittec a i that require weighing each passenger, magnitude of change;th l:AA'plans d rautinel update the use of statistical survey weights or advisoty urcular assumes a 50-50 spat between mate arie , the agency's approved higher standards. Tfte pvious circular assumed a IN EUROPE,Air France conducted a `Source.fAlC y. „. survey of passenger weights that indi- cates average adult weight had increased Comair's Michael Piper,director of cedure than assigning a 30-1b.estimate 1.8 kg.(3.9 lb.)since a previous survey. flight operations,welcomes the changes for all bags,says Piper.Greater accura- However, a greater percentage of as promoting safety and cost benefits. cy in weight estimates improves the safe- women,typically lighter than men,were Similar to other regional operators, ty factor,he says,and allows,in Comair's recorded as passengers,counterbalanc- Comair allows passengers to carry lug- case,more cargo room. ing the overall trend. gage to aircraft.A pink tag is attached Comair employees are engaged in After reviewing the small sample,the to each bag at the gate and they are "anything we can do to prevent denied European Joint Airworthiness Author- loaded separately into the cargo hold boarding and keeping customers'bags ities established a working group to de- of the aircraft before boarding. Upon with them." He adds, "Look at the fine terms and set the scope of a broad- debarking,passengers can retrieve the magnitude.We fly 1,167 flights a day." er survey,says Steve Garrett,manager bag on the tarmac. Teams in other departments are still of operations and safety for the Euro- Adopting FAA guidance,Comair al- looking for other ways to reduce weight pean Regions Airline Assn.Summer and lows 30 lb.for heavy bags and 20 lb.for to lighten the impact on the passenger winter clothing differences will be tak- pink-tagged bags,a more accurate pro- cabin. 4 en into account.Results are expected to be known next year. Horizon Airlines of Seattle adopte its own weight estimates that were high er than standard prior to 2001.Dash 8 rowing ains 200 pilots had reported aircraft"fee ing heavy"which spurred a comps U.S. airports want relief on funding categories, survey.The aircraft has a 1,980-lb.c go load capacity—"not a lot," Sa bond taxes and passenger fee ceiling Riely—and safety became an issu Horizon had used a 25-lb.weight p DAVID HUGHES/WASHINGTON bag, but the survey suggested 30 1 would be more accurate.The 30.lb.fi S. airports estimate they will The survey was released in advance of ore is, coincidentally, the new F need$71.5 billion for capital im- the FAA reauthorization process that be- standard. provements from 2005 through gins next year.An FAA official notes, In 2003 surveys,Comair found a si 2009 but believe they may fall however,that the Airport Improvement ilar increase in bag weights,though $34 billion short per year. Program(AIP)funds only certain types was slightly higher at 30.5 lb.Avera These figures—from a new Airports of projects related to the National Air- passenger weight also was estimated Council International-North America space System,depending on congres- 195 lb.Together,the increases caus (ACI-NA)survey—come at a time when sional appropriations. Terminal con- some markets to be"weight-restricted. many airlines are financially strapped and struction,for example,is not included. Following extensive surveys,the F as air traffic resumes its typically healthy Growing traffic is driving the average issued the weight-and-balance regul growth rate.At the same time,the U.S. annual $14.3-billion capital spending tions in August 2004,with Aug.11,200 government is running big deficits that needs over the five-year period,accord- as the effective date for approval of ai make more federal aid unlikely.The good ing to Stephen Van Beek,executive vice line programs. Comair's weight-an news is that a lot of these projects are president for policy at ACI-NA.The fig- balance control program received F financed by 30-year bonds at a modest ures,adjusted for inflation,were provided approval May 3—among the first pr 4%interest rate,since most airports en- by 81 airports that handle more than 80% grams to do so. joy"investment grade"ratings. of airline passenger activity in the U.S. www AviationNow.com/awst AVIATION WEEK&SPACE TECHNOLOGY/AUGUST 8,2005 45 The data were supplemented by informa- ACI-NA contends U.S.Airports'Capital Billion tion on capital expenditure needs on oth- that bonds may not 1 1 er airports from a 2003 FAA survey. be able to make up tis Because many projects such as new all the difference '& $,4.3 Billion Average { terminals can be built in 2-3 years,Van between the $71.5 Est Beek says the actual capital spending billion airports need to ; from 2007-09 could rise by as much as$2 and the more than , #` GA billion a year as additional projects are $5 billion a year M y A ,) Y t� M Reliever identified.This is why the data(see chart) now coming from & ■commercial look front-loaded with more projects in AIP and PFC funds. Non-hub the early years,he notes.Airport man- °r small 4 Medium age 2 togs 2006 2007 2008 2006 Oa�trs 8illara Sotaaa: CoufcN hriwimOomi-NoRh Anwmaa(ACI-NA)daft Gam 81 rparh dwi 614b of-U. OWVA medium and anar/1 hubt).bWbrn kn for fM c&w 3jM__. aaXf'raF ,�d s 'max... 11 Sr agers are less clear about what they will 35% 3346 33% 33% Average-1 Hour 32% 3 % 32% 31% be doing in the fourth and fifth years. 30�' The FAA's 2003 estimate of airport funding requirements for 2005-09 are much lower than those in the ACI sur- vey.The FAA calculated that the 3,300 nQ airports significant enough to qualify for AIP money under the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems will need only • $39.5 billion over the five-year period. The trade group points out that the FAA counts only airport projects that are 5` eligible for AIP funding while the ACI survey counts ones that are funded by other means,such as revenue bonds and3, passenger facility charges(PFCs).AIP and PFC money combined contribute more than$5 billion annually to airport If the investments aren't made,the lion just to install in-line explosives projects,and airport bonds can contribute trade group asserts that service will suf- screening systems on baggage conveyor a similar amount.But the ACI maintains fer and the transportation system might belts(AW&ST Aug.1,p.43).In fact,se- that U.S.airports may fall$34 billion not be able to expand adequately.The curity accounts for just 7.2%of currently short of the$14.3 billion needed per year. FAA expects the number of passengers 'identified needs.The big areas of spend- Another difference in the figures for to grow to more than one billion in 10 M' g are terminals(30.7%),capacity im- capital improvements for 2005-09 is that years'time,from a projected record of provements (18.2%),standards corn- the FAA calculates$39.5 billion based 717 million this year. pliance(14.3%),reconstruction(10.1%) on constant-year 2004 dollars,while the It's noteworthy that aviation security and environmental projects(6.1%). $71.5 billion from ACI is adjusted for in- is not the main driver despite needs However,specialists working on in- flation and counted in then-year dollars. identified by airports—such as$4-5 bil- frastructure projects note there's a fun- 46 AVIATION WEEK&SPACE TECHNOLOGY/AUGUST 8,2005 www.AviationNow.com/awst damental shift in the way airports are , approaching these initiatives.Prior to the 9/11 attacks,few airports would have thought it necessary to link together all t. of their security,baggage-handling and passenger check-in systems.Now there , are several major projects like this un- derway in the U.S.involving fully inte- grated information technology systems, g gY sa s John Dungan,director of global THE NATtONAt BUSINESS AVIATION ASSN.is opposing a prop0 product management for Arinc irport way spending bill that would change the tax rate on jet fuel,ft.waldk Systems in Annapolis,Md. business jet operators to pay taxes on diesel fuel and then apply for a refund r , ARINC IS INVOLVED in one of these for the difference between the highway rate and the tax rate for jet fuel.The efforts at Las Vegas McCarran Interna- proposal is intended to stop operators of diesel trucks from using jet fuel to tional Airport."The biggest thing we're seeing [in our business] is that infra- avoid paying higher taxes,which the IRS says is a common practice.NBAA of- ficials however,saybusiness aviation should not be included because it is not structure investment is mainly driven by I " security,"says Dungan.Growing traffic part of the problem."We re being penalized for a problem we did not create, tY Ys g g is just increasing the pressure on airports, said Ed Bolen,president and CEO. In addition,if the proposal stands,jet fuel he adds.McCarran,for example,han- taxes collected at the higher rate would be deposited into the Highway Trust dled 41.5 million passengers last year and Fund and later transferred to the Airway Trust Fund,but only after operators ap- set a monthly record of 3.9 million in ply for a refund of credit. March.The airport is gearing up for 53 million passengers per year by 2010.The THE THEME FOR THIS YEAR'S business aviation Safety Stand Down,scheduled for integrated system being installed there Oct 25-27 in Wichita,Kan.,is'War on Error."The event,sponsored by Bombardier will rely on radio-frequency identifica- Learjet,is aimed at improving corporate aviation safety and will include recurrent tion tags, he says. However, security training for international flight operations,medical training,handling emergencies, needs are not drawing down AT funds: fatigue countermeasures,high-altitude physiology,aerodynamics,performance and Congress and the airports have worked to ensure this doesn't happen,notes Su- safety.For further information,e-mail:dawn.pepperd@aero.bombardier.com. san Rork,Arinc director of business de- RESEARCHERS AT THE FAA TECHNICAL CENTER in Pomona,N.J.,are conducting velopment for homeland security. a survey to better understand how emerging technologies are enabling the trans- Meanwhile,ACI-NA plans to seek some relief from the government in sev- mission of large amounts of important data to aircraft operating within the Na- eral areas that should help airports meet tional Airspace System (NAS).The FAA wants to know if and how these data the coming funding crunch.One is to could be used to improve safety and operational efficiency,reduce system costs have the ceiling lifted on PFCs (now and raise the level of productivity for airline passengers while in flight This"Air- capped at$4.50 per flight segment and borne Internet"could benefit all NAS users,according to the FAA.Business $9 for a round trip)and let airports de- aviation operators interested in participating in the survey should go to cide cash-show ppehigd irlin sph to set ike oneaspect oeek f www•nbaa.com and look under"Flight Operations." funding airport improvements with the FIXED-BASE OPERATOR SIGNATURE FLIGHT SUPPORT has signed a new, 10-year PFC:They don't have to help finance it lease with the Massachusetts Port Authority for operations at Boston's Logan Inter- out of their own pockets and carry the national Airport and plans to build a 10,000-sq.-ft. general aviation terminal facility debt on their books. AIRPORTS WOULD ALSO like to see reg- on the airfield.The building is scheduled for completion next year. Signature has ulations relaxed that restrict how they been operating at Logan since 1967 can use AIP,PFC and airport revenue. CHINA EASTERN GENERAL AVIATION CORP.(EGAC)will acquire two Sikorsky Current rules require them to time proj- ects using three different categories of S-76 helicopters to support offshore missions to oil platforms in the Bohai Bay money in specific ways."What we want area of northern China.Both aircraft will be equipped with enhanced ground to create is an airport`euro,"'says Van proximity warning and health usage and monitoring systems.The S-76 has been Beek,so the dollars can be spent with- operating in China since 1984.EGAC,based in Tianjin,is one of three largest out cumbersome restrictions. offshore operators in the country.The Ministry of Communications flies two And finally,airports would like their S-76S for offshore search-and-rescue missions. bonds to be treated differently at tax time. The government sees airports as public THE EXPERIMENTAL AIRCRAFT ASSN.'S AIRVENTURE 2005 convention and sport entities as far as providing part of the na- airplane exhibition held late last month at Oshkosh,Wis.,was attended by about tional transportation system,notes Van 700,000 people(a 7%increase from 2004),including 1,813 visitors from 65 nations. Beek;but then many of the bonds used EAA officials say there were more than 10,000 aircraft at Wittman Regional Airport to finance projects are private ones sub- ject to an alternative minimum tax.`Are and surrounding airfields,including a record 1,267 homebuilt aircraft,924 vintage we public or private?We are stuck in no- airplanes,386 warbirds, 196 ultralights, 130 seaplanes and 24 rotorcraft. In addi- man's land and the government should tion,789 exhibitors attended,as well as 904 representatives of the global media. treat us one way or the other." O 0 AVIATION WEEK&SPACE TECHNOLOGY/AUGUST 8,2005 wwwAviationNowcom/awst ► � 411i:141 lot Su and delays at New York JFK Interna- ■ Blues tional—an airport that had been oper- ating under capacity since the late-2000 decline in traffic. , y Low-cost carrier operations at JFK in- Delay Monster returns to devour the 9 read creased fivefold in the first quarter,while stretched-to-the-limit national airspace other traffic was down 34%.Delays,how- l ever,increased 34.5%compared with the FRANCES FIORINO/WASHINGTON same period in 2000,and 52%compared with first-quarter 2004.After low-fare, ummer air travelers should not ly serious ones—as early as summer." high-frequency carrier Independence Air I_ abandon all hope of arriving at Mead pointed out that compared with set up shop at Washington Dulles,air- U.S.destinations on time--at least summer 2000,this summer's scheduled port operations increased 79%and de- not yet.But conditions appear to international passenger operations are lays jumped to 7,700 in March 2005,com- be deteriorating rapidly and de- expected to increase by 16%,and cargo pared with March 2004. lays could match,or even exceed,those operations by 12%. Open skies agree- THE DOWNSIZING of some network ' during the summer of 2000. ments and deregulation overseas could hubs and transfer of service is anoth- Transportation Dept.Inspector Gen- result in"significantly greater"interna- er factor behind congestion and delays. eral Kenneth M.Mead told the Senate tional growth. US Airways, for example, decreased Commerce Committee on May 26 that He noted that regional jet operations services at Pittsburgh by 3,800 flights arrival delays at U.S.airports increased are increasing and general aviation jet in the fourth quarter of 2004 and shift- _ 17% in the first quarter compared with traffic is rebounding.Flight hours logged ed aircraft to hubs at Philadelphia, the same period last year,with heaviest by GA jet aircraft in 2004 increased Charlotte,N.C.,and Fort Lauderdale. k concentration in the Northeast and Flori- 6.2%compared with 2000.In addition, As a result, delays at Pittsburgh de- ' da.(A"delay"is a flight that does not the agency is monitoring growth of Very creased in the first quarter,but were land within 14 min.of published time.) Light Jets(VLJs)that will spur a growth up more than 60% at the other three MEAD NAMED SIX airports that war- in traffic operating in high-altitude air- hubs. rant close watch as the summer trav- space(above 38,000 ft.). Summer storms are notorious for el period approaches:Philadelphia,New "Our[National Airspace]System will creating delays in the Southeast and York LaGuardia,Newark,N.J.,Wash- be stretched to its limit as future de- Northeast,Mead said. ington Dulles,Atlanta and Fort Laud- mands continue to grow,"said Blakey. The inspector general said that while E erdale,Fla.These airports had signifi- Growth creates demand and build-up the FAA has taken some actions to pre- cant delays last summer, sustained of frequencies,which in turn can lead vent delays,"more needs to be done," "consistently elevated delay rates at least to airport gridlock. acknowledging the challenges the agency over the past year and are projecting According to Mead,the expansion of faces in addressing congestion. substantial traffic growth this summer." low-cost carrier operations is almost en- Areas that require FAA attention The number,rate and average length tirely responsible for growth in traffic include keeping new runway projects of delay are also on schedule and increasing,Mead TOP 15 U.S. AIRPORTSairspace redesign testified. First- % FLIGHTS + i efforts on track— quarter delays av- 1 !05 2004 critical to enhanc- FIRST QUARTER eraged 52.3 min. ing capacity—as versus the summer 1 Q 05 Avg. IQ 04 Avg, well as exploration of 2000's 48.5-min. Rank Airport Arrivals %Delay Min. Rank Arrivals %Delay Min. of market-based average. and administrative �! Many factors I VI 1'" lBeacf 1 3 ' solutions where al-fila. 5 2 :1317feed airline delays. ternatives for ca- FAA Adminis- 2 Fort Lauderdale,Fla 32,502 378 57 3 28,287 26.5 47 1!ill;frdra' <s 47,642. 5 5 : . S9 8 ,w.47738 24.3 5t pacity are limited, trator Marion C. such as Chicago 4 Philadelphia* 60,291 33.3 60 10 52,135 23.7 50 Blakey' _testifying ;5 NO .I 26.4i. 53 ,r 'Hare. before the same In her testimo- committee, said 6 N.Y JFK 37,783 30.4 56 12 33,078 22.8 51 _.Lille`1C, ny, Blakey reit- by the end of 2005 ��' Y =17,T7 293 7s- 17365.4� a erated a few delay 8 Burbank,Calif. 9,658 28.7 45 13 9182 21.5 43 passenger traf- factors that lie be- fic—estimated to ;. .. 9,997 1�8.1 `# S : - 6" 9780 2S.fi 44 yond the scope of be 710 million— to Boston 42,996 278 52 15 41,977 19.9 47 the FAA—weath- f :11 ll a `.'r 11T�8i;2 27.? 61 I tfi842 ?5,9 _ should reach pre- 12 Tampa,Fla. 29,283 27.5 51 14 25,745 20.2 44 er,security,airline Sept. 11, 2001, operations and . 5 T 2a,4ao 2x3 45 9 X741 levels.Passenger '' 24.2 equipment. 14 Chicago O'Hare 114,870 27.2 62 1 118,276 36.9 65 totals are expect- However, she ed to exceed one 0AA1as ." �� 50,51$ 2G.9 >` 23.3` 5D. also addressed Wash- billion b 2015 "Airports on Transportation Dept Inspector General's summer delay"watch"list It includes Wash- Y . ington Dulles International Airport;which is,not among the Top 15 rankings ways FAA is using "And with the re- Figures are rounded,columns may not total. or contemplating bound will come Sources: U.S.Government Accountability Office,testimony of U.S.Transportation Dept Inspector Gen- preventing delays: delays—potential- eral Kenneth M.Mead. implementation of 50 AVIATION WEEK&SPACE TECHNOLOGY/JUKE 20,2005 www.AviationNow.com/awst DRVSM (Domestic Reduced Vertical for congested areas until the build-up , con Separation Minimums),which doubles of traffic clears.Blakey said congestion New Pa .�, air traffic capacity at high altitudes by management also could be an option at creating six jet lanes above 29,000 ft., a number of small airports where de- WASHINGTON and reducing vertical separation of air- mand may exceed capacity. ; craft to 1,000 ft.from 2,000. She noted that the FAA is working to Canada and India are soon to reap the There is also a factor known as"de- "implement new procedures,more pave- benefits of their new liberalized air sew lay triggering"—when traffic delays are ment and better technology" to allevi- ices agreement that allows a fivefold in- anticipated to reach 90 min. or more, ate the congestion problem across the crease in passenger flights and unlii"nil controllers hold flights from departing board. ® ed all-cargo services. -r The extended agreement conch June 7 will allow passenger.serr�icesi: increase to 35 round-trip fli w 9�Rer"z Hot Curr for each country, up from seven trip flights weekly for each undertlre I vious agreement,according to- More startups Spice Up transport and international trade"nl"wea In addition,India and Canada FWQW India's low—fare competition ignate as many airlines as thdy to fly those services,which 4011 �;. NEELAM MATHEWS/NEW DELHI as code-shares.The previo, W limited the number of designee ei and did not provide for arrangements such as code t it than carriers who already hav air to Montreal and Toronto will n Eye itr ' to operate to Edmonton and ,l�. lus two other Canadian cities}�:Q►t P I k��h determined. y l Canadian carriers who curme-,. ►." access to Mumbai and New Qflt be able to operate to Bangalore, nai, Hyderabad and Kolkata. j jfs Air Canada welcomes the m ndia is discovering the fare war.Four India's Air Deccan has ordered 30 ATR 72- is currently evaluating strategy. ` more budget carriers say they will start 500s to meet growth expectations, but still nities, including service to Itll operations by year's end,joining Spice- feels pressure from other low-fare carriers. cording to airline spokesman Jet and Kingfisher Airlines,which be- The largest Canadian carrier gan flying within the past two months. the[rail]market[15 million passengers]." vides daily Toronto-New Delhi The"establishment"—two-year-old dis- To meet demand,Air Deccan has or- the peak fall/winter season,a , counter Air Deccan—is serving up its dered 62 new aircraft-32 A320s and 30 weekly service in the summertw x A. own enticements:a 1-rupee (2.5-cent) ATR 72-500 turboprops—with deliver- Air-India,which embarked ` ' fare for 1,000 lucky travelers a month. ies spread over five years.Air Deccan national growth plan, in Maros r ' Even with a forecast of 20%annual can increase its daily flight count to 600 rated New Delhi-Frankfurt Loe'-' growth over the next five years,there's with that fleet,making it the largest do- service and in May,New Delhi- likely to be some indigestion among mestic carrier. Birmingham Toronto service. ` these new entrants.Besides one anoth- Gopinath told Aviation Week&Space The new agreement is cons001,111, er,the will need to fly against the real Technolo that the need is so urgent that Canada's goal of establishing" Y y g t�' g 9 establishment,state-owned Indian Air- he has asked Airbus to push forward de- relationships with new econoi 's original liveries to 2005.But with Airbus'pro- In the past five years,trade lines,plus Jet Airways,India } independent,that has become the coun- duction schedule tight,the carrier has ment promotions of both cock a ' try's most successful carrier. leased six to be included in its fleet suited in a record bilateral rn , : r However,as large as India's popula- by next March. trade valued at C$2.45 billion T tion is(1.1 billion),the numbers flying The first of the ATR 72s was delivered lion).This, according to.. , remain modest.Jet Airwa Ys carried 7.9 last week at the Paris air show. istries,reflects more than a fi0 million passengers,Indian Airlines,7.6 Air Deccan operates 111 flights a day in that period.. -almillion passengers and Air Deccan,1.1 with a fleet of five A320s and 12 48- The new pact is also expel 4 mil- tourism as well as cultural million passengers. seater ATR 42s.It expects to carry ex � ;. Managing Director GR Gopinath said lion passengers by next March,the end cording to Canadian Transport; up to 40% of Air Deccan's passengers of its fiscal year,up from 1.1 million last Jean-C.Lapierre and Intematrvi j were first-time travelers. Given the year.By then,its fleet will include 18 of Minister Jim Peterson.They said '. growing size of India's middle class,this the turboprops and 11 A320s. countries, anticipating expansion AAA figure is bound to increase."I am not The purchases are to be funded by an transport market, plan renegrc►titi embarassed about our market segment," initial public offering that is to raise the air services agreement in..,2407* he says."We are here to compete with $250-300 million. ® www.AviationNow.com/awst AVIATION WEEK&SPACE TECHNOLOGY/JUKE 20,2005 51 « i�.. - � ^'ap ' �,a«+��'�" &�i'�^''n�'C.Y-dui �.; .;'•'h ,'�N.,r�.f_. uu,��� x..•;.�,ab,r...;� ��:�: ,u... s�%'� _ _ .... 7 Stansted is no earlier than 2014-15, if not 2020. Speaking here at the Waterfront Avi- unway Stretch ation White Paper Delivery conference, Timing for ambitious British government Price Said:"We have already slipped five years on the runways. We have fine plan for airport expansion faces `reality' words, but there are no fundamental plans for concrete going down....There DOUGLAS BARRIE/ is a very real problem of inertia." Even British airport operator BAA here is growing unease in the U.K. precedence.The timetable for this work, admits the Stansted delay to 2013 rep- that core elements of the govern- however,is also being challenged. resents a"best-case scenario."A BAA ment's two-year-old commercial The government's strategy for nour- official says there remain regulatory,in- aviation development strategy ishing the commercial air transport sec- frastructure and planning challenges, r{ face major delays. tor, and addressing projected growth, and even the revised date is an "ex So far,the government has not come is enshrined in its 2003 white paper.It tremely tough target." clean on the issue,but industry execu- set out plans for runway development— ALONGSIDE DOUBTS over the Stansted tives believe it will have to when it un- predominantly in the southeast—in- and Heathrow schedules,other capac- veils a planned"progress"report on the tended to secure London's position as ity-expansion programs may also be slip- so-called 2003 Aviation White Paper. the center of a global route network. ping.Development of a second runway A central plank of the strategy was The report also tries to begin to address at Birmingham International Airport the 2011-12 introduction into service of the environmental impact of increas- was anticipated"around 2016" in the a second runway at Stansted Airport in ing air travel, and further airport de- white paper. Richard Heard,Birming- southeast England to boost capacity. velopment. A "progress report" is ham's managing director,now says the This has already slipped to 2013,at the planned for publication toward the end development will take place"in a win earliest. Some believe even this date is of 2006. dow between 2016 to 2020." overly optimistic.Others argue that de- "Since the white paper,there has been An official from the U.K.Transport lays in the Stansted development—in- slippage in the timetable," says Laurie Dept.declined to discuss whether the tended to precede any runway expan- Price,director of aviation strategy at the progress report would address slippage sion at London Heathrow—could open Mott MacDonald Group consultancy. in the proposed runway schedule. the door to the latter airport taking He suggests a more realistic date for Initially supportive of the white pa- ,nr � 'f R 4 xW ............. London Stansted Airport was due to increase capacity,with a second runway to open in 2011,though this has now slipped to 2013.Even further delay is possible. should not slow development of a third runway at Heathrow,nor plans to in- troduce mixed-mode runway operation. The proposed introduction of mixed- mode operations would see Heathrow's runways used for both landing and take- off,rather than the present segregated '= r mode.This would provide an increase in the number of air traffic movements,pri- Aor to the construction of a third runway. The incremental introduction of mixed-mode operation would allow aircraft movements to be increased to 480,000 in 2007 and 500,000 in 2010,from 460,000 in 2004,according to Ellis. per proposals,British Airways(BA)is Funding of the expansion at Stansted Development of a third runway at increasingly pushing for Heathrow de- also remains a potential point of con- Heathrow is dependent on the airport's velopment and suggests that, should flict. BAA says there may have to be a ability to meet environmental require- Stansted be significantly delayed,then financial contribution from Heathrow ments,including air quality.While El- a third runway at Heathrow take prece- and Gatwick. The next regulatory re- lis believes this is a question of"when dence. view covering financing,says the BAA and not if the emissions"targets can be "The issue of timing[in the white pa- official,is in 2008.Several airlines,in- achieved,others are more circumspect. per]was based on the then-current as- eluding British Airways, however,are "The environmental demands at sessment....I don't see it as a precon- opposed to the use of cross-subsidies to Heathrow are huge,"says the BA exec- dition," says Paul Ellis, BA's general fund the Stansted development. Ellis utive."These will be very,very difficult manager for airport policy. argues any difficulties over Stansted targets to meet." Imagine having an r within reach . . • are. Jeppesen makes it possible. 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But multiple ort and the Japanese transport ministry say they have found a way to extend s* - u- main gear axles form parallel lines that nd runway to enable larger aircraft to use the nation's busiest international gateway. 1.2 can't intersect at the turning center,and Narita Aircraft Corp. President Masahiko Kurono and Transport Minister Iuo ur some of the tires have to scrub lateral- itagawa said they will extend Runway 16U34R to 2,500 meters (8,200 1 in a turn.The sharper the turn the ilding on to the existing 2, y ( *ir y P � 180-meter runway on the northern 16L)sides tear n' more they scrub.The Boeing 747 alle- an the southern side as originally planned. It may not seem like much,but Wilke in viates this problem by steering the body ga of Japanese airport operations,the 320-meter extension is a step fob tr- gear at low speeds so the axes point to- When the Japanese government planned Narita 39 years ago,it envision 'a ward a common turning center,which ain 4,000-meter-long runway,a 2,500-meter parallel runway and a 3,0001111er ® reduces scrubbing. crosswind runway. Of those only the 16R/34L main runty y ay was built and open- THE ENTIRE A380 body gear doesn't ated as planned.Strong political opposition by nearby residents and farmers ef- ` steer,but the aft axle does steer on the fectively blocked full utilization of the other two. six-wheel trucks. If the body steerin A 2,180-meter parallel runway was built on property the Airport Corp.owned: mechanism is inoperative,the A380 c The intent was to extend it to the south, but that land was owned by farming in- be dispatched with the wheels aligne terests that opposed the extension.That elderly family is content to put up with the and locked.The wing gear do not stee sound of aircraft flying 130 ft.above their heads.Theoretically,Japan's government at all.In these photos,it is the wing gea could have taken the land under eminent domain,but that option was polhica Dy un- that are scrubbing.The tests were th saleable. first in a series to check A380 groun The airport owned enough land for a northside extension but resisted making it handling.In August-September,Airbus because it's harder to build on,could raise new noise complaints and is farther plans to assess minimum turn radius at from the passenger terminals.But under pressure to expand Narita to keep upwith heavy weight and taxiing the aircraft with international traffic growth,officials said it was time to act.With their southside oP- engines running.U-turns are also on the ponents dug in,they took the northern option.The project is expected to takes to-do list. years to and cost 33 billion yen ($300 million), compared with three �� � Airbus officia ls have begun trying to and 19 billion yen for the southern option, fi explain the situation, saying the tests The added length will allow 747/777-class aircraft operations for regionall. marked a positive step in verifying that Officials say the completed project will allow them to add another 100 the A380 can taxi using FAA Design movements a day,a jump of 180,000 to,220,000 a year.Airlines from,sots Group V or ICAO Code E runway/taxi- countries are seeking additional flights into Narita. way'systems—a standard measure for The 3,000-meter crosswind runway has been virtually completed, bqt t1dx�R those surfaces. opposition has prevented it from being used. Instead,it serves as a taxiway FOR THE JUNE 25 TEST, body wheel j steering was deactivated.The aircraft was Runway , Approval near its maximum weight,with an aft center of gravity,to represent a worst- South side extension idea now abandarr�d case condition.The test procedure con- 2,500 meters n #. sisted in towing/pushing the aircraft ou 2,500 meters and into a turn.When the turn radius stabilized,the aircraft was stopped,an t 6L 34R pictures of the landing gear were taken Airbus officials note that given th Opponent's house Originally built •; k roughly 90F temperature on the day North side extension by as a crosswind the test, and the fact that the aircra 320 meters currently used was turned beyond set limits,"i runway but s n t i as a taxiway ;•:, abnormal to have some local deterior The parallel runway tion of the asphalt."But one airport currently available (2,180 meters) ficial quipped:"Ninety degrees?Is th , Passenger all?" terminal 2 Three tires were replaced after the t This wasn't mandatory,Airbus says,b helped with the flight test schedule. Airbus expects the A380 to be able perform U-turns in a similar or smal er space than the A340-600 due to it Passenger shorter wheelbase.Moreover,the corn terminal I pany points out that with 20 main land ing gear wheels,the per-wheel weigh on the A380 is lower than Boeing's 777 4,000-meter main runway 300ER. www AviationNow con/awst AVIATION WEEK&SPACE TECHNOLOGY/JULY 25,2005 43