The American Association of Airport Executives (AAAE) recently announced that Rick Crider, A.A.E., executive vice president and port general manager of Port San Antonio, Texas, will serve as chair of AAAE’s 2015 National Airports Conference (NAC). The NAC is one of AAAE’s signature meetings and is expected to attract more than 300 attendees. This year, […]
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AAAE Wins Innovation Award For New Airport Employee Training System
The American Association of Airport Executives (AAAE) has been selected to receive a 2015 Top Association & Non Profit Innovator Award for its newly developed customizable training system for airport workers known as the Interactive Employee Training Learning Suite (IET-LS). One of the driving forces behind the technology, Patrick Raker, AAAE’s Senior Vice President for […]
AAAE Announces Establishment of Airport Innovation Accelerator
American Association of Airport Executives (AAAE) President and CEO Todd Hauptli announced last week the establishment of the AAAE Airport Innovation Accelerator to help drive greater innovation for the benefit of the airport industry by directly assisting qualified companies in speeding the process of bringing their technology and services to the airport marketplace. The creation […]
Governor McAuliffe unveils first Welcome to Virginia sign at Dulles International Airport
Governor Terry McAuliffe unveiled last week a new “Welcome to Virginia” sign at Dulles International Airport (IAD), welcoming travelers to the Commonwealth of Virginia. Dulles, located 26 miles west of downtown Washington, D.C. in Loudoun and Fairfax Counties, is a major hub for domestic and international travel, servicing about 22 million travelers a year traveling […]
Snider Joins AAAE Public Affairs Team
The American Association of Airport Executives (AAAE) has named Adam Snider as Director of Public Affairs. “Adam has built his reputation covering aviation and transportation policy in Congress for years,” House Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) said of Snider last week upon learning of his move to join the Association. “He knows these […]
Virginia’s Culpeper Air Fest wins Silver Pinnacle Award for Potomac Flight
Culpeper Regional Airport’s annual Air Fest received the Silver Pinnacle award at the International Council of Air Shows (ICAS) convention on December 10th in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Pinnacle Awards were established to honor the innovative advances in all areas of air show operations and management and are broken down into seven various categories for […]
Saab, VSATS and Leesburg Executive Partner to Demonstrate & Evaluate Remote Tower Technology
Defense and security company Saab, the Virginia SATSLab, Inc. (VSATS) and the Leesburg Executive Airport (Leesburg, VA) are partnering to demonstrate and evaluate Saab remote tower technologies at Leesburg Executive Airport. During the summer of 2015, the partnership will demonstrate and evaluate the remote tower system for use at non-towered airports. The Virginia Department of […]
FAA Repair Station Rule: “Killing a Flea with an Atom Bomb”
The Aeronautical Repair Station Association (ARSA) issued the following statement regarding the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) publication its latest revamp of repair station regulations under 14 CFR part 145. “Besides the expected changes that were based upon the notice of proposed rulemaking, the association is reviewing the more innocuous verbiage added to the final rule […]
FAA Forecast of Steady Growth Highlights Need for Airport User Fee Increase
American Association of Airport Executives (AAAE) President and CEO Todd Hauptli today pointed to the just-released Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) aviation forecast for 2014-2034 as further evidence of the need for Congress to increase the federal cap on local airport user fees to $8.50 and to provide additional Customs and Border Protection (CBP) personnel to […]
‘Women Can Fly’ to Introduce Flight to Girls and Women in Virginia
Women Can Fly, a series of four special Saturday events scheduled for May and June of 2014, will introduce aviation to more girls and women in Virginia. While the number of women working in the aviation industry has steadily increased, they are still underrepresented in the workforce and the number of women pilots is only […]
