Recently, I had a spirited discussion with a friend about a particular airport. After quite a bit of back and forth about what is good and not so good about the facility, my friend finally said, "I don't know what the big deal is. It's very functional."
Money and airport funding are definitely vital ingredients for creating and maintaining healthy airports. But I submit that there's another topic that should receive equal billing: innovation.
Remarkable architecture can instantly telegraph specific locations. Show many people a certain famous opera house, arch and tower, and they'll easily name the cities of Sydney, St. Louis and Paris, respectively. Here in the airport industry, we have our own share of memorable architecture: Denver International's iconic white fabric peaks, the distinctive curved forms around the control tower at LAX, and even the blue-green carpeting at Portland International.
I love technology. It's the great enabler. Publishing a magazine is so much easier and efficient now that we download files rather than hand-assemble wax-coated strips of text and paper photos. And our online edition and website provide additional sources with even more content.
It's a New Year. We have the same party in both houses of Congress, Moody's has changed its outlook for the U.S. airport industry to positive from stable, and both enplanement growth and the U.S. economy are expected ...
No Airport is an Island
Events over the last few weeks have served as vivid reminders of how tightly our ...
Spot On!
There's something about face-to-face encounters for learning and networking. They invariably ...
A Shared Cause
These are heady days in aviation. Industry conditions remind me of 2000 and early 2001, when new ...
Connected!
What's worse? Not having permission to obtain information or having permission but not being able ...
Don't Listen to Them!
You've seen them: the 10 Best This and 10 Worst That lists. Magazines seem to be ...
When playing the word association game, “leakage” would likely prompt answers about diapers and plumbing. But ...
The Hill, which reports on Congress and Capitol Hill, recently released its picks for Top 10 lobbying victories of ...
