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A I R P O R T S C O U N C I L I N T E R N A T I O N A L N O R T H A M E R I C A 1

ACI-NA MiinTHE MISSION Of AIRPORTS COUNCIL INTERNATIONAL NORTH AMERICA (ACI-NA) IS

TO AdvOCATE POLICIES ANd PROvIdE SERvICES THAT STRENgTHEN THE AbILITy Of

AIRPORTS TO SERvE THEIR PASSENgERS, CUSTOMERS ANd COMMUNITIES.

ACI-NA ViinACI-NAs vision is to be the recognized and authoritative voice o airports.

Airports Council International (ACI) is recognized as the authoritative voice o airports

worldwide. As one o ve regions o ACI, ACI-NA airport members enplane 95

percent o all domestic and virtually all the international airline passenger and air cargo

trac in North America.

ACI-NA World Business Partners and Associate Members represent a wide variety o

businesses that provide products and services to all segments o the air transportation

industry. Through the exchange o inormation and business opportunities, World

Business Partners and Associate Members make their expertise available to the ACI-NA

and its airport members. They are committed to help improve airport operations and

development, commercial activities, saety, security and quality customer service.

ACI-NA presents the unique views and recommendations o airport management

to ederal, state, provincial and local governments, industry, the media and the general

public.

A t Vic f Airprt ACI-NA: Promotescooperationwithallelementsofthecommercialcivilaviationindustry;

Exchangesideas,informationandexperiencesoncommonairportissues;

Identies,interpretsanddisseminatesinformationtoitsmembersoncurrentindustry

trendsandpractices;and

Createsforumsofcommoninterest,buildsprofessionalrelationshipsandinterprets

key airport policy and business issues to the ACI-NA membership.

Tab f CntntPresidents Message 2

Industry Snapshot 4

Chairmans Message 6

Canadian Message 8

Legislative Update 10

Vice Chairs Message 13

Committee Reports 14

Awards 22

Capital Needs Report 28

Leadership 29


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Greg PrincipatoACI-NA President

Pres ident s Message

Dear Industry Leaders,

The changes at Airports Council International-North America in the last two years aremaking an impact in the aviation industry.

We can look back with pride in the challenges that have been met: we ormed a new

government aairs unit, established a strong security-saety team, improved our member

communications, took an active role in environmental aairs and strengthened our

partnerships with other aviation organizations.

Striving to be a rich source o inormation both or members and or policy makers,

ACI-NA this year embarked on an educational campaign to win Federal Aviation

Administration (FAA) reauthorization legislation that meets members needs. One key

element is the Capital Needs Study, which was released in May. In a survey o memberairports, ACI-NA was able to document the need or $87.4 billion in new airport

construction to meet the requirements o the ever-growing number o air travelers.

Our new government aairs team has been instrumental in our education campaign.

Since January, member airports and the government aairs team met with more than 60

members o Congress and congressional sta and testied at six congressional hearings.

It has been our goal to convince legislators that airports are striving to put the needs o

the passengers rst in this debate.

ACI-NA has reached out to its ellow aviation organizations in the FAA reauthori-

zation debate to orm a united ront. In addition, ACI-NA obtained the support oU.S. Conerence o Mayors, National League o Cities and the National Association o

Counties in the eort to increase the passenger acility charge (PFC) and obtain more

ederal unding or airports. Indeed, ACI-NAs policy advocacy work has been critical

to making the case or higher PFCs.

While FAA reauthorization is important, it is not our only ocus.

Our public saety and security team has been working with the Transportation Security

Administration (TSA), Department o Homeland Security (DHS) and local police


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agencies to better mesh security practices with ecient airport operations. ACI-NA talksto the TSA, almost daily, on a variety o concerns.

When Congress earlier this year started to press airports to implement 100 percent

screening o airport employees, ACI-NA embarked upon an educational eort that

slowed down the rush to impose new untested procedures on all. Instead, six dierent

ederally-unded test programs will be tried at cooperating airports. It is our hope that

only ater these methods are thoroughly tested and evaluated will any new procedures

be mandated.

The ACI-NA environmental eorts are multi-aceted. We have worked to get new noise

standards and unding fexibility included in the FAA reauthorization legislation. ACI-NAis also cooperating with our world partners in Airports Council International and the

www.enviro.aero website to address pressing issues, such as carbon emissions.

Ater surveying the membership in the spring, the Washington-based sta has taken steps

to improve our communications with you. We already implemented improvements to the

weekly newsletter, @irports Update, and in the near uture, you should see an expanded

website and revamped Centerlines, our magazine. As part o the FAA reauthorization

education eort, we also created a second website, passengersrstcommitment.org.

Due to the longstanding interest expressed by our member airports to establish a orum to

address key human resource issues, ACI-NA has ormed a Human Resources committee.The rst meeting o this group will take place during the Kansas City conerence.

As we continue to ocus on the bedrock issues o nance, security and the environment,

ACI-NA your organization stands ready to advance your operational, community and

policy agendas or a stronger air transportation system and a stronger airport industry. I

look orward to working with you in the coming year.

Greg Principa

President, ACI-NA

ACI-NA reached outto newspapers withletters to the editorto promote increasedinvestment in airports.


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a irPorts 2006 at a glan ce

STATISTICAL MEASURE

U.S. Airport Industry Revenues (Aero)U.S. Airport Industry Revenues (Non-Aero)

U.S. Airport Industry Total Operating Revenues

U.S. Airport Industry Total Non-operating Revenues

U.S. Airport Industry Total revenue

U.S. Airport Industry Expenses Operating)

U.S. Airport Industry Expenses (Non-Operating)

U.S. Airport Industry Total Expenses

North American Total Passengers

North American Total Cargo

North American Total Aircraft Movements

U.S. Passenger Enplanements

U.S. Enplanements at Large-Hub Airports

U.S. Enplanements at Medium-Hub Airports

U.S. Enplanements at Small-Hub Airports

U.S. Enplanements at Non-Hub Airports

Airline Market Share/Network Carrier

Airline Market Share/Low Cost Carrier

Airline Market Share/Regional Carrier

U.S. Airlines Financial Performance (Operating Revenue)U.S. Airlines Financial Performance (Operating Prot/Loss)

U.S. Airlines Financial Performance (Net Prot/Loss)

Canadian Air Passenger Trafc/International

Canadian Air Passenger Trafc/Transborder

Canadian Air Passenger Trafc/Domestic

Canadian Air Passenger Total

Canadian Airport Capital Assistance

Number of U.S. Flights with Delayed Arrivals

Percentage of U.S. Flights Arriving Late

Average Length of U.S. Arrival Delays (in minutes)

2005

$7.01b$6.1b

$13.1b

$5.6b

$18.7b

$8.6b

$2.9b

$11.5b

1.52b

30.9M

35.6M

735.7M

508.3M

145.5M

58.3M

22.7M

70%

25%

5%

$15.1M$426,715

-$5.7M

15.8M

19.8M

29.1M

64.8m

C$35.3M

773,260

22%

50.6

2006

$7.08b$6.3b

$13.4b

$6.3b

$19.8b

$9b

$3.1b

$12.1b

1.53b

31.8M

34.6M

736.8M

510.9M

145.7M

57.9M

21.4M

67%

28%

4%

$163.8M$7.5 million

$3M

16.5M

20.6M

31M

68.2M

C$38.3M

726,319

23%

53.2

%CHANgE1.1%4.2%

2.5%

12.5%

5.5%

5.2%

6.9%

5.6%

0.5%

2.8%

-3%

0.2%

0.5%

0.2%

-0.8%

-5.7%

-4.3%

12%

-20%

8.3%1668.1%

4.5%

3.9%

6.7%

5.3%

8.2%

-6.1%

2.7%

5.1%

fOR NORTH AMERICAN AIRPORTS, 2006 wAS A gOOd yEAR wITH MOST Of THE MAjOR STATISTICAL MEASUREMENTS gOINg UP.


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SO

URCES:ACI-NA

DATA,

CAC,

FAA,

TRANSPORT

CANADA,

ATA

RANK

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

AIRPORT

Atlanta

Chicago OHare

Dallas/Ft Worth

Los Angeles

Las Vegas

Houston

Denver

Phoenix

Philadelphia

Charlotte

TOTAL OPERATIONS

976,447

958,643

699,773

656,842

619,486

602,672

598,489

546,510

515,869

509,559

Top 10 U.S. AirporTS in 2006 rAnked by ToTAl MoveMenTS

RANK

1

2

3

4

56

7

8

9

10

AIRPORT

Atlanta

Chicago OHare

Los Angeles

Dallas/Ft Worth

DenverLas Vegas

New York-JFK

Houston

Phoenix

Newark

TOTAL PASSENgERS

84.8M

77M

61M

60.2M

47.3M46.1M

43.7M

42.5M

41.4M

36.7M

% CHANgE

-1.2%

0.7%

-0.7%

1.8%

9.1%5.0%

4.5%

7.1%

0.5%

7.9%

Top 10 U.S. AirporTS in 2006 rAnked by ToTAl pASSengerS

RANK

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

AIRPORT

Memphis

Anchorage

Louisville

Los Angeles

Miami

New York-JFK

Chicago OHare

Indianapolis

Newark

Dallas/Ft Worth

TOTAL TONS

3.6M

2.6M

1.98M

1.9M

1.8M

1.6M

1.5M

987,449

974,961

757,856

% CHANgE

2.6%

5.4%

9.2%

-1.6%

4.3%

0.2%

0.8%

0.2%

2.6%

2.1%

Top 10 U.S. AirporTS in 2006 rAnked by Air CArgo

% CHANgE

-0.4%

-1.4%

-1.7%

1.0%

2.4%

7.1%

6.7%

-3.0%

-3.7%

-2.4%


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Rick Piccolo2007 ACI-NA Chair

cha irMan s Message

Dear Colleagues,

Airports are making a dierence this year.

The aviation industry and airports in particular ace a number o challenges:

crowded skies, aging inrastructure, tighter security demands and a heightened

awareness o environmental issues.

Just as predicted, air travel is now back to pre-September 11 growth patterns. With the

greater demand, airlines are fying ull. The ull planes and a swamped air trac control

system are putting the pressure on airports to move more people, yet still treat them as

honored and invited guests. We are putting passengers rst.

Airports are rising to meet these challenges and in doing so, we are getting results.

Without a doubt, the challenge this year has been the reauthorization o the Federal

Aviation Administration (FAA) legislation with its companion issues, including a new

air trac control system, unding ormulas and regulatory fexibility.

To meet these challenges, we are now telling our story a story that many appar-

ently never heard beore. We are demystiying our unding system, clariying our

role in airport security and itemizing our capital needs. Airports many or the rst

time are stressing their vital role in keeping their local economies rolling. I have

enjoyed seeing my colleagues animated and inspired as they tell their stories to their

Washington representatives.

And, what have we discovered? Airports do have clout. People are listening, in both

Washington and back home.

Airports may not be getting everything on our wish list, but we are getting much

o what we need. In the pending FAA legislation, we are getting a much more

realistic ceiling on passenger acility charges and increased unding or the airport

improvement program two areas vital to unding our uture capital needs.


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I think our eorts to date have been successul primarily because we are getting ourmessage out that rst and oremost, we are in the people business. Airports are committed

to putting our passengers needs rst.

We are not viewed in Washington as a special interest group. Instead, our national leaders

realize that supporting airports is part o the public abric necessary to keep the economy

growing.

We have also discovered that airports can infuence security and environmental regulations.

The airport community represented by individual airports and ACI-NA is sitting at the

table with the Transportation Security Administration. When we speak, they are now moreaccommodating to our needs and concerns.

Inaddition,airportsareworkingwiththeEnvironmentalProtectionAgencyandothersso

that a holistic approach or environmental concerns, airport operations and construction

becomes the norm. We realize we need to be good neighbors. Airports are striving to

blend the need to expand our operations to meet uture air travel demands and the need to

promote sustainability and other green operating and building practices.

As I wrap up my term as chair o ACI-NA, I want to thank you or your involvement and

your support. Yes, airports do have clout. I have discovered this past year that this clout and

infuence has been underestimated and more importantly underutilized. In the comingyear, we need to collectively and individually reach out to more people, back home and

in Washington, to tell our story. Our story empowers us.

Frerick J. (Rick) Piccl

Chair, ACI-NA 2007 Board o Directors

President,ChiefExecutiveOfcer

Sarasota Manatee Airport Authority

Millions of passengers will be stuckat the gate tomorrow.One out of four flights were delayed last year,as our aviation infrastructurestruggled to meet demand. And its only going to get worse. The FAA projects thenumber of annual air travelers to increase 35 percent by 2015 to over one billion.

Without new runways or terminals, airports will become chokepoints in thenations aviation system.

Congress needs toput passengers first.Raising the cap on airport Passenger Facility Charges (PFCs)will ensure that necessary airport capital improvementprograms can move forward, increasing capacity,enhancingsecurity and promoting new competition.

Passengers First Commitment

For more information visitwww.passengersfirstcommitment.org

If Congress doesnt support airportdevelopment today...

ACI-NAs PassengerFirst Commitment adsappeared in Roll Calland The Hill in 2007.


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canada s a i rPorts .do ing our Part

For canad ian coMPet i t i v eness

Jim FacetteCAC President and CEO

The Canadian Airports Council (CAC) stepped up its eorts in several key areas

through continued collaborative eorts with the ederal government. A central theme

o competitiveness emerged or the years work, as the CAC attended to a number odossiers impacting the competitiveness o Canadas airports in the world.

INTERNATIONAL AIR POLICy

The ederal government unveiled its much-awaited new international air policy. Dubbed

Blue Sky, the new policy committed the ederal government, as a primary objective, to

seek to negotiate reciprocal Open Skies-type agreements.

ShortlyafterBlueSkywasannounced,theEuropeanCommission(EU)signalledto

CanadaitsinterestinexploringanOpenAviationArea.TheEUisCanadassecond

biggest trading partner and source o tourists and Canadas airports strongly endorsed the

move toward Open Skies to provide new opportunities or service and to remain compet-itive with airports in the U.S. In June, ater several senior-level exchanges between Canada

andtheEU,CanadasPrimeMinisterannouncedthattalkswouldgetunderwaythisfall.

Meanwhile, other bilateral talks continued and Canada announced Open Skies agree-

ments with Ireland and Iceland over the summer.

AIRPORT COMPETITIvENESS

As a competitiveness issue, airport rent continues to challenge Canadas airports ability to

compete or trac. The CACs position remains that rent should be eliminated in recog-

nition o the importance o air transportation to Canada and Canadian competitiveness.

As an interim measure, the CAC continues to seek a redenition o revenue used to

calculate rent in order to exclude revenue raised to cover debt. This would eliminate

the current penalty on airports that have used the capital markets to und inrastructure

expansions and improvements.

bORdER SERvICES ANd NEXUS AIR EXPANSION

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rom the Canada Border Services Agency

(CBSA). The CAC participated in two

consultative hearings related to a reviewo the agencys budget and its strategic

direction.

There were some bright spots in border

acilitation as early progress was signalled

in airport eorts to secure a national transit

without visa program and a pilot electronic

primary inspection line (PIL) or the

border.

ExpansionoftheNEXUSAirprogramshould be complete by the end o the year

at all o Canadas eight largest airports. As

atechnology-basedprogram,NEXUSAir

allows or a more ecient use o border

resources. The CAC has been a strong

proponent o its expansion.

SECURITy ANd LAgS

Through the CAC, Canadas airports are

participating in the ederal governments

cargo security pilot project, which parallelseorts also underway in the U.S.

The nancial impact on airports rom a

security ban on liquids, gels and aerosols

(LAGs) continued through 2007, most

notably or pre-clearance airports on fights

into the U.S. Some progress was made in

thisarea,however,andwiththeEuropeanUniononrecognitionofCanadiansecurity

measures or LAGs on connecting fights.

REPLACEMENT wORKER LEgISLATION

Two opposition party private members bills were introduced in 2006 and 2007 seeking

to ban the use o replacement workers at ederally regulated organizations. As the CAC

notied the Minister o Transport, i passed, the legislation could cause the shut-down

o one or more o Canadas airports in the event o a strike or lock-out.

With the rst bill deeated in a vote in the spring, a second bill largely mimicking the

rst was immediately introduced. CAC eorts are ongoing to inorm legislators about

the potentially negative consequences o this legislation.

NEXT yEARAs 2007 comes to a close, the CAC and its members join the rest o Canada in

monitoring the developments with Canadas minority ederal government and its

progress in key policy areas.

Three themes are expected to continue to occupy CAC time: environment, nancial/

economic viability o the airports system, and

the acilitation o passengers.

Canadas airports are doing their part to

acilitate Canadas competitiveness in the

world but this requires government direction domestically and internationally consistent

with its commitment to Canadian competi-

tiveness.

Jim Facee

PresidentandCEO

Canadian Airports Council

An expansion is nowunderway at OttawaInternational Airport.


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With these principles, we will be seeking Congressional approval o an FAA

reauthorization bill that provides airports with the necessary tools to und projects

beneting their local communities and help continue to meet growing airline and

passenger demands, said Rick Piccolo, chairman o the ACI-NA board and president

and chie executive ocer o the Sarasota Bradenton International Airport in

February 2007.

ACI-NA sta realized that the rst step in building momentum or FAA reautho-

rization was to provide inormation to Congress about the importance o airports.

Despite the act that airports are gateways or trade and commerce, generating signi-

icant economic and transportation benets, we ound that we needed to do signicant

work to better educate policymakers about the best ways to nance the expansion

o airport inrastructure. Meeting with sta rom nearly every member o the Senate

Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee and the House Transportation

and Inrastructure Committee, we emphasized that airports are not only catalysts or

economic growth, but also a critical component in the FAAs Next Generation air

transportation system to modernize aviation.

The next step was to provide the acts and data on airport capital needs and why

airports must plan now to accommodate the more than one billion passengers

expected to travel by air in the United States by 2015. The Passengers First

Commitment campaign (www.passengersrstcommitment.org) was then developed

to publicize the respected ACI-NA Capital Needs Survey results and the important

role that an increase in the passenger acility charge (PFC) ceiling would play in

airport project nancing. Further, with airline passengers experiencing higher ticket

prices and more inconvenience, we have publicized the act that PFCs acilitate the

construction o new terminals, runways

and taxiways reducing delays and

providing more service and price compe-

tition. Additionally, ACI-NA has been

very successul in securing publication o

LetterstotheEditorandguesteditorialsin congressional, aviation trade and general

media publications on the importance o

leg is lat ive and governMent a F Fa i rs

ACI-NA Urg Cngr t Prvi Airprt wit T fr t Futur

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IN PREPARATION fOR THE CONgRESSIONAL dEbATE ON fEdERAL AvIATION AdMINISTRATION (fAA) REAUTHORIzATION, THE AIRPORTS COUNCIL

INTERNATIONALNORTH AMERICAS (ACI-NA) bOARd Of dIRECTORS IN fEbRUARy LAId THE fOUNdATION TO MAKE THE CASE fOR AIRPORT

MOdERNIzATION by dEvELOPINg SIX gUIdINg PRINCIPLES fOR THE INdUSTRyS LObbyINg EffORTS.

ACI-NAs sIx GUIdING FAAReAUThoRIzATIoN PRINCIPles

Increase the Passenger Facility Charge

(PFC) rate ceiling and give airports

exibility in rate-setting

Streamline FAAs management of the PFC

Program

Increase and strengthen the Airport

Improvement Program (AIP)

Improve the Airport and Airways Trust

Fund to foster nancial stability

Treat airport bonds as tax-exempt public

purpose bonds

Allow airports more nancial exibility


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expanding airports as part o modernizing

the nations aviation system.

ACI-NA also successully collaborated

with the National Association o Counties,

the National League o Cities, the U.S.Conerence o Mayors and the National

Association o State Aviation Ocials

to lobby Congress or increased AIP

unding and an increase in the PFC

ceiling. Recognizing the importance

o the Small Community Air Service

DevelopmentandtheEssentialAirService

(EAS)programs,thecoalitionalsourged

continued unding or these important

programs administered by the Department

o Transportation (DOT).

While the need or more unding tools

has been the ocus or reauthorization,

it is not the only issue on which we are

working. Air trac control (ATC) reorm

is a critical issue aecting the uture o the

airport industry and ACI-NA is playing

a key leadership role. We are participating

with FAA, the airlines and the general

aviation community in numerous Joint Policy and Development Oce (JPDO)

committees, as well as educating congressional sta on the ATC programs that are

essential or U.S. airports. Additionally, in May ACI-NA submitted testimony regarding

FAA reauthorization that outlined the most important ATC initiatives or the airport

industry:AirportSurfaceDetectionEquipment-ModelX;AutomaticDependent

SurveillanceBroadcast;PerformanceBasedNavigation;andWakeVortexDetectionand Avoidance Programs.

Recognizing that environmental issues are a key ocus or many in Congress, ACI-NA

also vigorously advocated a number o innovative airport environmental programs in

FAA reauthorization. In late April, ACI-NA sta met with the House Transportation

and Inrastructure sta to urge the inclusion o 12 specic legislative provisions. A

month later, ACI-NA testied on behal o the

airport industry on climate change and energy

eciency beore the committee. We were very

pleased that the committee supported many o

the programs we discussed in testimony in thenal legislation.

The Senate and House FAA reauthorization

bills dier in their emphasis on the tools

necessary or airport modernization and much

work remains to be done. ACI-NA is condent

that when the conerence committee completes

its work and the legislation is ultimately passed

by Congress and signed by the President,

ACI-NA President GregPrincipato testies beforethe House HomelandSecurity Subcommittee onTransportation Securityand InfrastructureProtection. Lauren Stover,

Miami-Dades assistantaviation director forsecurity and communi-cations, and WilliamE. Holden, senior vicepresident of CovenantHomeland SecuritySolutions, look on.



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the airport industry will have the additional tools necessary to better serve passengers by

providing saer, more ecient, and environmentally-riendly acilities.

The DOT appropriations were also an area in which the Government Aairs team

has been very active. With the assistance o our member airports, we lobbied success-

ully against the Presidents request or a signicant cut in AIP unding or scal 2008.

Given the dicult budgetary environment and the act that there is no authorization

in place or the program, this is an important

achievement or the airport industry. We

were also pleased with Congressional support

forfundingtheEASandSmallCommunity

Air Service Development programs.

Because o the critical impact aviationsecurity and TSA programs have on airport

operations, it is no surprise that ACI-NA

was involved in legislation to implement

the 9/11 Commission recommendations

and the Department o Homeland Security

(DHS) appropriations bill. Funding or

in-lineexplosivedetectionsystems(EDS),

TSA and Customs stang, as well as cargo

screening, were all areas where ACI-NAs

participation beneted the airport industry.

WealsolobbiedextensivelyforfundingEDSintheIraqSupplementallegislationthatwas ultimately signed into law in early August.

Additionally, ACI-NA sta infuenced the congressional debate on employee screening

and airport badges. We represented the airport industry on 100 percent employee

screening at a House hearing in April, advocating a multi-aceted, risk-based program,

developed collaboratively by airports, airlines and TSA. This program would serve

to enhance the security o the traveling public by strengthening airport and airline

employee screening while appropriately using resources across the aviation industry.

While the House legislation moved out o committee and could move to the foor or

consideration, the more likely vehicle or the employee screening issue will come rom

a possible conerence on the House and

Senate DHS appropriations measures. This

is due to the act that both bills include

language and limited unding to pilot testphysical screening o airport and airline

employees. A conerence report on DHS

appropriations is ar rom certain, and the

President has threatened a veto unless the

spending levels are reduced. Regarding the

security o airport badges, our eorts were

directly responsible or the addition o a

provision that recognized the challenges

and role o airport operators as govern-

mental entities in collecting access badges

rom terminated employers.

Many challenges remain or the ACI-NA

sta and airport industry as a whole. These

include but are not limited to the passage

o FAA reauthorization legislation, as well

as educating Congress on airport saety,

security, unding, eciency, and environ-

mental issues. We appreciate your assistance

and support and look orward to working

with you or the success o the industry.

Chairman Jerry Costello(D-IL) confers with RankingMember Rep. Thomas E. Petri(R-WI) during a meeting ofthe House Transportationand Infrastructure CommitteeSubcommittee on Aviation.

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One o the most signicant technology issues involves payment card industry security,

acriticalissueforanairportthatacceptsconsumercreditcards.AmericanExpress

Michael Mitchell brieed the group on this topic during the

spring conerence.

The committee remains very interested in CUPPS. The success o the CUPPS initiative

requires participation rom both airports and airlines. The International Air TransportAssociation (IATA) invited Sam Ingalls o McCarran International Airport to chair a

new committee revising 25-year-old standards or common use terminal equipment.

The IATA committee has worked along with airports and the Air Transport Association

coMMittee accoMPl ishMents

Buin Infrmatin Tcngi Cmmitt

THE bUSINESS INfORMATION TECHNOLOgIES COMMITTEE (bIT) CONTINUEd TO wORK ON COMMON USE PASSENgER

PROCESSINg (CUPPS), wIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS (wI-fI) ANd AIRPORT INfORMATION SySTEMS.

Stephen J. Mitchell,chair of the Commis-sioners Committee,honors U.S. Rep.Bennie G. Thompson.

Cmmiinr Cmmitt

THE COMMISSIONERS COMMITTEE, COMPOSEd Of AIRPORT bOARd MEMbERS, COMMISSIONERS ANd TRUSTEES, RAISEd

A RECORd AMOUNT NEARLy $40,000 fOR ITS SCHOLARSHIP PROgRAM ANd AwARdEd fIvE COLLEgE SCHOLARSHIPS.

At its spring Leadership Conerence, the group honored U.S. Rep. Bennie G. Thompson

(D-MS) with its 2007 leadership award or his ongoing support o the aviation industry.

Thompson is the chairman o the House Homeland Security Committee.

Over the past several months, the committee members have been actively and

eectively educating their local congressional representatives about ACI-NA

reauthorization goals.

on a recommended practice as well as

detailed technical specications. These

projects, when completed and imple-

mented, will allow airports to install

passenger-processing equipment that can

be used by multiple airlines. This will

allow airport equipment to be used moreeciently and give airlines the opportunity

to take advantage o airport acilities on

short notice.

In June, more than 100

attended the committees

annual conerence held in

Atlanta.AirTranCEOJoe

Leonard was a keynote

speaker.


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ecnmic Affair Cmmitt

THE ECONOMIC AffAIRS COMMITTEE ACTS AS THE fOCAL POINT fOR

THE ASSOCIATIONS EffORTS ON A bROAd RANgE Of AIRPORT-RELATEd

ECONOMIC ISSUES. AIRPORTS AbILITy TO ACHIEvE THEIR PUbLIC SERvICE

RESPONSIbILITIES dEPENdS UPON THEIR ECONOMIC vITALITy.

TheEconomicAffairsCommitteeisrespon-

sible or the management o six subcom-

mittees: Air Cargo, Airline Business, Business

and Commercial Management, Business

Diversity, Finance and Administration, andInsurance and Risk Management.

The Insrance an Risk Managemen

Sbcmmiee last year began a bench-

marking study o Airport Operating

Agreement Insurance Requirements. In

order to assist airports in assessing the

adequacy o insurance coverage require-

ments on airports business partners, the

subcommittee rolled out a pilot project

at the end o 2006. More than 50 airportsparticipated in the ull study o both limits

and general insurance requirements.

The Air Carg Sbcmmiees

security working group developed a

new chapter or the ACI-NA Air Cargo

Handbook, which details the latest security

practices. The Alternative Land Use

working group is developing a paper that

will examine alternative

land use and critical opera-

tions and security, physical

and environmental, business

and nancial considerationsairports should take beore

undertaking such projects.

Other committee projects

include analyzing the

emergence o secondary

gateways, open skies agree-

ments and the China and

Southeast Asian market.

The Finance an Aminisrain Sbcmmiee established a benchmarking task orce to

consolidate all benchmarking eorts and came up with recommendations to enhance the ACI-NAAirport Perormance Benchmarking Program. At the suggestion o the subcommittee, the Airport

Cooperative Research Program will prepare a paper on trends, methods and best practices or airport-

airline agreements.

TheEconomicAffairsCommitteeisalsoresponsibleforholdingseveralindustry-relatedconferences

peryear,includingtheEconomicandFinanceConference,theInsuranceandRiskManagement

Conerence, the Air Cargo Conerence, the Airport CFO Fly-in Summit and the Concessions

Conerence, as well as making contr ibutions to the ACI-NA Annual Conerence. Additionally, the

committeealsoconductstheRichardA.GriesbachExcellenceinAirportConcessionsContest.

UPS will be spending

$250 million toexpand its WorldPortfacilities at LouisvilleInternational Airport.


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TheNEPAWorkingGroupremainedactivein2006-2007,workingjointlywith

the Airport Consultants Council (ACC) and Federal Aviation Administration

(FAA) to organize a series o workshops ocused on FAAs Order 5050.4B, National

Environmental Policy Act: Implementing Instructions for Airport Projects. An October 2007

workshopwillfocusonthenewFAAEnvironmentalDeskReferenceforfederal

airport actions. The workshop participants will better understand how FAA integrates

over20environmentallawsintotheNEPAprocess.Thisgroupisalsocollaborating

with members o the Operations and Technical Aairs Committee to explore ways to

integratephysicalplanningandtheNEPAprocessinanefforttostreamlineairport

project development.

AsignicantfocusofthecommitteecontinuestobetheEnvironmentalProtection

Agencys(EPA)developmentofefuentlimitationguidelinesforairportdeicing

practices. The Water Quality Working Group recently established a task orce to work

withEPAthroughouttheruledevelopmentprocess,whichshouldbenalizedin2009.


envirnmnta Affair Cmmitt

THE ENvIRONMENTAL AffAIRS COMMITTEE INCLUdES NINE wORKINg gROUPS: AIR QUALITy, CAEP/INTERNATIONAL ISSUES, LANd USE

COMPATIbILITy, NATURAL RESOURCES, NATIONAL ENvIRONMENTAL POLICy ACT (NEPA), NOISE, SUSTAINAbILITy, wASTE MANAgEMENT, ANd

wATER QUALITy.

What started as a joint initiative o the

EnvironmentalandOperationsand

Technical Aairs Committees, the Sustain-

ability Working Group is expanding to

include interaction and input rom all

ACI-NA committees. The Working Group

is examining how airports are inormed,

enabled and ultimately empowered to

make better decisions that holistically

integrate how they do business, treat the

environment, work with their business

partners and tenants, and are perceived by

their neighbors and the public.

Madisons Dane County Regional Airportwon the mitigation award in the 2007Environmental Achievement Awards. Thisis an aerial view approaching Runway 14.The runway safety improvement project(lower right area) involved realigning arailroad over a marsh, relocating a creekbed, and realigning a portion of a countyhighway and the airport perimeter road,all accomplished while minimizing theimpact on the surrounding marsh, andimproving the hydrology in the area andthe water quality of the stream.


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Faciitatin Wrking Grup

THE fACILITATION wORKINg gROUP AddRESSES ISSUES INvOLvINg THE U.S. AgENCIES THAT CONTROL THE MOvEMENT Of

INTERNATIONAL AIR PASSENgERS ANd CARgO ENTRy THROUgH U.S. AIRPORTS.

The group worked with the Canadian Airports Council to mitigate the impact

o the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative on air travel.

ThefacilitationgroupwillintensifyitsworkonUS-VISITExit,whichhasimpli-

cations or all U.S. airports. The move by the Department o Homeland Security

(DHS) will impact airports because the agency wants the airlines to collect the

ngerprintsofdepartingvisitors.CongresswantsDHStoimplementUS-VISIT

by December 2008, which is a very tight timetable.

The group has ocused its eorts on U.S.

Customs and Border Protection (CBP)

stang, model airports program and

the Rice-Cherto Initiative on Secure

Borders and Open Doors. Because o the

groups eorts with Congress, CBP is now

posting more detailed wait times or 16 US

airports. However, more work is needed

to ensure the accuracy o this data and

inclusion o more airports.

U.s. Intrnatina Air srvic Prgram

THE INTERNATIONAL AIR SERvICE PROgRAM, fUNdEd THROUgH A SPECIAL ASSESSMENT ON INTERESTEd U.S. AIRPORT

MEMbERS, PROMOTES U.S. AIRPORT INTERESTS IN INTERNATIONAL AIR SERvICE.

A Chinese dragon was part ofthe festivities at WashingtonDulles International Airport onMarch 28 to mark United Airlinesrst daily non-stop ight fromDulles to Beijing. United won

the ight after a new agreementwith China was reached.ACI-NAs International Air ServiceProgram participated in thosenegotiations.

The group was involved in eorts with other major partners such as Argentina,

Japan, and Mexico.

The program has established a working group consisting o member airports

toparticipateinthesecondstagenegotiationswiththeEU.Ascalledforin

the accord, talks are to begin in June 2008 to discuss ollow-up items, including

trac rights, oreign investment opportunities, access to government-nanced

trac and the eects o inrastructure and environmental. The working groupwill develop ACI-NAs approach and views prior to the start o these talks.

The program was an active participant

in the consultations with China, which

led to an agreement in May to expand

signicantly passenger and cargo rights.

Ater our years and 11 rounds o consul-

tations, o which ACI was an act ive

player,theEuropeanUnion(EU)andthe

United States reached an Open Skies-PlusAgreement in March 2007.


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These cases include: McCarran v. Sisolak, Vacation Village v. Clark County andAlaska Airlines

v. Los Angeles World Airports.The committee also continues to be involved in land use

issues, particularly the Federal Aviation Administrations (FAA) treatment o airports that

acquired land with Airport Improvement Program (AIP) unds or noise compatibility.

In McCarran v. Sisolak, the Nevada Supreme Court issued a decision in 2006 nding

that a Clark County height restriction took the property o a nearby landowner.

McCarran International petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to review the decision.ACI-NA led a riend o the court brie in the Nevada court and, together with

ve other aviation trade associations, led a br ie in support o McCarrans petition to

the U.S. Supreme Court. However, in January, the U.S. Supreme Court decided not to

review the case.

In the Los Angeles case, 21 airlines sued Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA) in a U.S.

Department o Transportation administrative court, claiming that the airports increased


lga Affair Cmmitt

THE LEgAL AffAIRS COMMITTEE PARTICIPATEd IN SEvERAL SIgNIfICANT CASES

LITIgATEd dURINg 2006 ANd 2007.

terminal rental charges, and mainte-

nance and operations (M&O)

charges, violated applicable law

and AIP grant assurances. ACI-NA

participated as an intervenor in the

proceeding. LAWA prevailed on

the issue o M&O charges, but the

airlines were successul in convincingDOT that most o the challenged

rental rate increases were unjustly

discriminatory. Both parties are

appealing the DOT to the U.S.

Court o Appeals in Washington,

D.C., and ACI-NA has been asked

to intervene in the case.

ACI-NA intervenedon behalf of LosAngeles InternationalAirport when 21airlines challengedthe airports newterminal rental rates.


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Markting an Cmmunicatin Cmmitt

ACI-NAS MARKETINg ANd COMMUNICATIONS COMMITTEE, COMPRISEd Of AIRPORT ANd ASSOCIATE PROfESSIONALS IN CUSTOMER SERvICE, AvIATION

EdUCATION, AIR SERvICE, MEdIA RELATIONS, PUbLIC RELATIONS ANd COMMUNITy RELATIONS, fOCUSEd ON CONTINUINg TO PROvIdE EXCELLENT LEARNINg

ANd NETwORKINg OPPORTUNITIES fOR ITS MEMbERS IN 2007.

opratin an Tcnica Affair Cmmitt

THE OPERATIONS ANd TECHNICAL AffAIRS COMMITTEE HAS bEEN fOCUSEd ON ALTERNATIvE CONTRACTINg METHOdS, NEXT gEN CAPACITy ISSUES ANd THE

CONTINUINg PRObLEMS wITH vARIOUS ObSTRUCTION ISSUES THAT ARE NOT bEINg EffECTIvELy RESOLvEd by CURRENT fAA PROCEdURES.

inTucson,Ariz.,with377registrants.USAirwaysCEODougParkerkeynotedthe

conerence. One air service planning session used audience response units that resulted

in enthusiastic participation rom the audience. The other popular sessions covered

social media, including blogs and web sites, and providing excellent customer service.

JumpStart, ACI-NAs signature air service development program, connected 141

airports with airline route planners rom 36 airlines at 740 one-on-one meetings on

June 20.

ThecommitteealsooverseesACI-NAsExcellenceinMarketingandCommunica -

tions Contest. In 2007, 73 airports entered almost 300 entries. Judges bestowed the

prestigiousPeggyG.HerefordAwardforOverallExcellencetoSeattle-Tacoma

International Airport.

The committee planned the April

CustomerServiceandAviationEducation

Seminar held in Columbus, Ohio. The

seminar attracted 85 participants and

included valuable exchanges on research,

investing in the community, translating

eedback into customer service solutionsand best practices.

The June 2007 Marketing and Commu-

nications Conerence & JumpStart Air

Service Development Program was held

at risk and design-build requently used in the private sector. To date, the committee

has held two successul two-day educational seminars, published a white paper and

supported continuing sessions at committee meetings to advance the state o members

knowledge in this area.

The alternative contracting project oers

members a orum and guidance materials

to help them progress rom the traditional

design, bid, build contracting methods to

contracting tools like construction manager

More than 36 airlines met with141 airports in Tucson in theannual JumpStart Air ServiceDevelopment Program whichresulted in 740 one-on-onepresentations. (Anthony French,Inside Tucson Business)


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In addition, it has revitalized its public saety component with a working group

ocused on some o the most pressing public saety issues.

Emplyee Screening. In response to congressional interest and pending legis-

lation, the committee has worked to deal proactively with the issue. A united

industry eort has pushed the government to include a range o actions and

required that these options must rst be pilot tested with the testing unded by

the ederal government.

Nex Generain Airpr Secriy Regime. The committee has been working

on new concepts and providing input to TSA that will ensure that airports are

part o the decision-making process. Among the issues vetted are how to enhance

employee background checks and access authority, improve perimeter security,

improve access control systems, improve airside response and surveillance.

Risk Base Secriy Sysem. The committee has been working with TSA to

develop a methodology to assist the agency and the industry in assessing security

risk. A risk-based system will help TSA and airports in responding more quickly

and eciently to threats.

Safey Managemen Sysem. The Public Saety Working Group is helping

airports prepare to implement new Saety Management System changes as part o

new International Civil Aviation Organization requirements, helping airports share

inormation and best practices regarding mass terminal evacuations and reducing

runway incursions on the aireld though better training.


Pubic saft an scurit Cmmitt

THE PUbLIC SAfETy ANd SECURITy COMMITTEE HAS bEEN wORKINg wITH AIRPORTS ANd THE TRANSPORTATION

SECURITy AdMINISTRATION (TSA) TO IMPROvE SECURITy fOR THE PASSENgERS ANd EMPLOyEES AT THE AIRPORTS.

A TSA agent at Baltimore-Washington InternationalThurgood Marshall Airport inspects carry-on items.


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sma Airprt Cmmitt

THE SMALL AIRPORTS COMMITTEE HAS AddRESSEd NUMEROUS ISSUES Of CRITICAL IMPORTANCE TO THE OPERATIONS ANd

SURvIvAL Of THE SMALL HUb ANd NON-HUb AIRPORTS.

Congestion at the major hub airports, especially at LaGuardia and OHare, has

had a devastating eect over the past year on delays and cancellations o fights at

the small airports that eed the hub airports.

Atthecommitteeswintermeeting,PinnacleAirlinesdiscussedtheprocess

airlines utilize in determining which fights to delay or cancel when

congestion at the hub airports necessitates a reduction in fights.

Atthecommitteessummermeeting,UnitedExpresstalkedaboutitssuccess

with the procedures the carrier is implementing to reduce delays and cancella-

tions at the small airports that eed OHare.

The committee ocused on two areas to

help small airports to sustain access to the

national air transportation system: Airportsproviding support services to airlines, and

the delays and cancellations o fights at

small airports due to congestion at New

York LaGuardia and at Chicago OHare.

The primary reason small airports are

evaluating whether to provide ground

services is to enhance, or even to maintain,

air service by decreasing the overhead costs

or airlines.

At Springeld-BransonNational Airport, Lead AgentAnders Mercer stows a Comairpassengers wheelchair in thebelly of a regional jet bound forCincinnati. Mercer is part of theairports ground services staff.


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award win ner s

2006 ACI-NA Ricar A. Gribacecnc in Airprt Cncin Cntt

OvERALL gRIESbACH AwARd Of EXCELLENCE

Memphis International Airport Concourse B

bEST fOOd ANd bEvERAgE PROgRAM

MEdIuM AIRPoRtS

1s Place Memphis International Airport Concourse B

LARGE AIRPoRtS1s PlaceDetroitMetropolitanAirportEdwardH.McNamaraTerminal

2n Place John F. Kennedy International Airport Terminal 6

bEST RETAIL SPECIALTy PROgRAM

MEdIuM AIRPoRtS

1s Place Southwest Florida International Airport New Terminal

2n Place Memphis International Airport Concourse B

LARGE AIRPoRtS1s PlaceDetroitMetropolitanAirportEdwardH.McNamaraTerminal

Hnrable Menin HoustonGeorgeBushIntercontinentalAirportTerminalE

MOST INNOvATIvE CONCESSION

LARGE AIRPoRtS

1s PlaceWashingtonDullesInternationalAirportVinoVolo

2n PlaceLaGuardiaAirportCiboExpressGourmetMarket

The rotunda in Concourse B at MemphisInternational Airport reects the communitysheritage. Memphis won the 2006 RichardGriesbach Award of Excellence.


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ecnc in Markting & Cmmunicatin Cntt

THE ANNUAL EXCELLENCE IN AIRPORT MARKETINg ANd COMMUNICATIONS CONTEST HAS gROwN SIgNIfICANTLy IN SIzE ANd SCOPE

SINCE ITS INCEPTION IN 1990. ACI-NA RECEIvEd MORE ENTRIES THAN EvER bEfORE, NEARLy 300 ENTRIES IN 21 CATEgORIES fROM

73 MEMbER AIRPORTS. THE QUALITy Of wORK ENTEREd IN THIS yEARS CONTEST CREATEd A gREAT CHALLENgE fOR OUR PANEL

Of 37 jUdgES. CONgRATULATIONS TO ALL THE wINNERS!

PEggy g. HEREfORd AwARd wINNER

Seattle-Tacoma International Airport

SEATTLE ALSO PLACEd IN THE fOLLOwINg CATEgORIES:

1s Place: Newsletters Internal

2n Place:SpecialEvents

2n Place: Partnering with Carriers

2n Place: Marketing Campaigns

1. ANNUAL REPORTS

1s Place: San Diego County Regional Airport Authority

2n Place: Portland International Airport

3r Place (tie): Metropolitan Washington Airpor ts Authority

3r Place (tie): Haliax International Airport Authority

2. bROCHURES

1s Place: Nashville International Airport

2n Place: Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport

3r Place:McCarranInternationalAirport(LasVegas)

Seattle-Tacoma International Airports outstandingcommunications and marketing programs earned theairport ACI-NAs Peggy G. Hereford Award.


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award win ner s

3. NEwSLETTERS INTERNAL OR EMAIL

1s Place (tie): Seattle-Tacoma International Airport

1s Place (tie): Pittsburgh International Airport

2n Place: Baltimore/Washington International

Thurgood Marshall Airport

3r Place: Reno-Tahoe International Airport

4. NEwSLETTERS EXTERNAL

1s Place: Portland International Airport

2n Place: Denver International Airport

3r Place: Ottawa International Airport Authority

5. PRESS KITS1s Place: ElPasoInternationalAirport

2n Place (tie): Metropolitan Washington Airports

Authority

2n Place (tie): Sacramento County Airport System

3r Place: General Mitchell International Airport

(Milwaukee)

6. fLIgHT gUIdES

1s Place: Baltimore/Washington International

Thurgood Marshall Airport2n Place : Brownsville South Padre Island Interna-

tional Airport

3r Place: Metropolitan Washington Airports

Authority

7. SPECIAL EvENTS

1s Place: Southwest Florida International Airport

2n Place: Seattle-Tacoma International Airport

3r Place: Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport

8. AvIATION EdUCATION & TOUR PROgRAMS

1s Place: Reno-Tahoe International Airport

2n Place: VanNuysAirport

3r Place: San Diego County Regional Airport

Authority

9. PARTNERINg wITH CARRIERS

1s Place:EdmontonAirports


3r Place: Blue Grass Airport (Lexington, KY)

10. MARKETINg CAMPAIgNS

1s Place (tie): Minneapolis St. Paul InternationalAirport

1s Place (tie): Oakland International Airport


3r Place: Boston Logan International Airport

11. PUbLIC RELATIONS CAMPAIgNS

1s Place: McCarranInternationalAirport(LasVegas)

2n Place(tie):EdmontonAirports

2n Place (tie): Miami International Airport

3r Place: John C. Munro Hamilton InternationalAirport (Ontario)

12. CORPORATE bRANdINg CAMPAIgNS

1s Place: VancouverInternationalAirport

2n Place:YeagerAirport(Charleston,WV)

3r Place: Mineta San Jose International Airport


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13. CUSTOMER SERvICE INITIATIvES

1s Place: San Diego International Airport

2n Place (tie): Winnipeg International Airport

2n Place (tie): Mineta San Jose International

Airport

3r Place: Columbus Regional Airport Authority

14A. PRINT AdvERTISINg bLACK & wHITE

1s Place: LA/Ontario International Airport

2n Place: Mineta San Jose International Airport

3r Place: Fort Wayne-Allen County Airport

Authority

14 b. PRINT AdvERTISINg COLOR

1s Place: LA/Ontario International Airport

2n Place: LA/Palmdale Regional Airport

3r Place: Reno-Tahoe International Airport

15. RAdIO AdvERTISINg

1s Place: Minneapolis St. Paul International

Airport

2n Place: Hartseld-Jackson Atlanta International

Airport3r Place: Bradley International Airport

16. Tv AdvERTISINg

1s Place: McGhee Tyson Airport (Knoxville)

2n Place: LA/Ontario International Airport

3r Place: Bradley International Airport

17. vIdEO & fILM PROdUCTION

1s Place: Baltimore/Washington International

Thurgood Marshall Airport

2n Place (tie): Brownsville South Padre Island

International Airport

2n Place (tie): Denver International Airport

3r Place: LA/Palmdale Regional Airport

18A. CREATIvE INNOvATIONS PROMOTIONAL ITEMS

1s Place: McCarran International Airport

2n Place: Huntsville International Airport

3r Place: Detroit Metropolitan Airport/Wayne

County Airport Authority

18b. CREATIvE INNOvATIONS TECHNOLOgy

1s Place: Minneapolis St. Paul International

Airport

2n Place: Metropolitan Washington Airports

Authority

3r Place: Chicago Airport System

19. wEb SITES

1s Place: Portland International Airport2n Place (tie): Tulsa International Airport

2n Place (tie): Baton Rouge Metropolitan

Airport

3r Place: McGhee Tyson Airport (Knoxville)

dwn Awar

jIM dELONg

TheWilliamE.Downes,Jr.,MemorialAward,

rst presented in 1978, is ACI-NAs most presti-

gious award.

The 2006 winner o the award is Jim DeLong.

In his career, DeLong was the aviation director

in ve cities: Wichita, Houston, Philadelphia,

Denver and Louisville. In each city, DeLong

was in charge o major construction projects. InDenver, he built and opened the new airport.

DeLong served as chairman o ACI-NA in 1996.

The award honors the memory and leadership o

Downes, who was the Chicago aviation commis-

sioner rom 1959 to 1975. Most o the extensive

development o OHare International Airport

took place while he was commissioner.

ACI-NA President Greg Principato and 2006Chairman Steve Grossman present the 2006Downes award to Jim DeLong.


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envirnmnta Acivmnt Awar

TheannualACI-NAEnvironmentalAchievementAwardsacknowledgethehardwork

and achievements o ACI-NA members by promoting awareness more broadly within the

airport community, the general public and regulators o the many notable and innovative

eorts being undertaken by environmental proessionals at airports. In 2007, ACI-NA

received16entriesacrossthreeawardcategories:EnvironmentalManagement(9);

Mitigation(3);andOutreach,Education,andCommunityInvolvement(6).Threeairports

won awards and the judges made one special award.

ENvIRONMENTAL MANAgEMENT AwARd CATEgORy:San Francisc Inernainal Airpr: Environmental Sustainability Program

The San Francisco International Airport plays a key role in meeting the citys

commitment to attaining environmental sustainability. Signicant measures have been

undertaken to reduce emissions, save energy, improve water quality, preserve natural

resources,andminimizewasteattheairport.ComponentsoftheEnvironmental

SustainabilityProgram,asdocumentedinanEnvironmentalSustainabilityReport,

includeapilotprogramwithVirginAtlantictotowdepartingaircraftpart-waytothe

runway, 400 Hz power and pre-conditioned air at many gates, conversion o airport

shuttles to bio-diesel uel, installation o solar panels, and a solid waste minimization and

recycling program.

MITIgATION AwARd CATEgORy:

dane Cny Reginal Airpr:

Runway 14/32 Safety Area and

Associated Improvements

To bring Runway 14/32s saety

area into compliance with FAA

design standards, the Dane County

Regional Airport relocated 2.4

miles o active rail line, 0.8 miles o

a county highway, over one mile

o creek, and the airport perimeter

road and ence. The project resulted

in 36 acres o direct wetland ll

and 35 acres o secondary impact,

necessitating 53 acres o wetland

mitigation credit. In conjunction

with 10 ederal, state, and local

agencies, the airport developed an

on-site mitigation plan that includedmeasures to address adverse historical

impacts to water resources. The

airport restored both the hydrology

o the Cherokee Fen, including

buer plantings and sediment

removal, and the Starkweather

Creek. The mitigation measures

o the project will result in a net

overall enhancement to local water

resources.

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SPECIAL AwARd

Lis Armsrng New orleans Inernainal Airpr:

Runway 10-28 Rehabilitation, Levee Lift, Flood Gate, and Canal Enclosure

Having been in service or almost 30 years without a major rehabilitation, rehabilitating

Runway 10-28 became a priority or the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International

Airport in late 2003. Because Runway 10-28 is the longer o the Airports only two

runways, minimizing construction time was critical. The project was completed success-

ully through use o monetary incentives or early completion, innovative and environ-

mentally-riendly construction techniques, and inclusion o regional food protection

construction works. Completion o the rehabilitation coincided almost to the hour o

Hurricane Katrina making landall near New Orleans. With daily operations soaring

rom an average o 700 to as many as 3,800, completion o the rehabilitated runway

proved critical to emergency operations ollowing the Hurricanes devastating eects.

OUTREACH/EdUCATION/COMMUNITyINvOLvEMENT:

Prlan Inernainal Airpr:Environmental Outreach and

Communications Program

To urther its environmental policy and

objectives, the Port o Portland established

anEnvironmentalOutreachandCommu -

nication Program. The program inorms

stakeholders about the ports aviation

environmental programs and integratesstakeholder input to those programs

through use o Community Integration

Guidelines developed specically or the

program. The program, which includes a

dedicated environmental outreach manager,

enhances relationship building between the

airport and the community, allowing more

eective implementation o the airports

proactive environmental projects.


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I the local airport is the new Main Street or central business district in this post-in-

dustrial era as The Wall Street Journalobserved, then there needs to be a lot o building

over the next ve years to meet the customers demands.

Just to keep pace with the FAAs orecast o air trac growth both passenger and

cargo, the U.S. airports expect to spend $87.4 billion on capital developments through

2011 thats $17.5 billion per year. But to keep pace, the airports need more money.

One answer to the unding gap is more dollars rom passenger acility charges (PFC).

To document the need or more PFC dollars, ACI-NA surveyed its member airports

and reported in May that in just two years the airport construction tab has grown

22.2 percent. While additional projects contributed to part o the growth, the survey

determined that infation in the construction industry has been driving up the costs o

work underway as well as the price estimates or projects in the planning stage. More

than 100 member airports participated in the survey.

Citing this infation in the construction industry, ACI-NA has been urging Congress

to raise the ceiling on PFCs to $7.50. The House has responded to the report by

proposing a new $7 ceiling on PFCs.

With more than 1 billion passengers expected to be traveling through the U.S. airports

by 2015, airports need to start moving

dirt now.

The Airport Capital Development Costs

study ound that i these improvements

are not made, travelers will encounter

overcrowding at some o the nations most

congested passenger airports, longer fight

delays, longer waits or an open gate at

destination airports, and a system under-

equipped and ill-prepared to respond to new

capacity, saety and security requirements.

On just the airside o airport operations,

there are 858 construction projects in

progress or planned or large, medium and

small hub airports. The study ound that

a consistent source o unding is needed,

especially when it takes on average 10 years

to building a new runway and three years

to construct a new terminal.

caP i tal needs

Airprt e $87 Biin in Nw Prct t Mt Travr N

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Large Hub $1,067 $3,089 $3,487 $594 $2,162 $10,194 $19,479 $6,113 $0 $282 $46,466 53.2%

Medium Hub 778 946 2,028 179 698 2,276 5,842 3,424 963 0 17,134 19.6%

Small Hub 307 305 798 148 398 1,782 745 1,534 315 0 6,331 7.2%

Nonhub 689 50 1073 1709 146 287 634 119 0 27 4,735 5.4%

Commercial 69 11 211 412 23 20 35 38 0 6 825 0.9%

Reliever 83 61 696 1,832 90 355 32 95 0 19 3,263 3.7%

gA 195 208 2,008 5,329 101 426 149 146 0 46 8,608 9.9%

t 3,189 4,670 10,299 10,202 3,619 15,341 26,917 11,469 1,277 380 87,362 100.0%

P 3.7% 5.3% 11.8% 11.7% 4.1% 17.6% 30.8% 13.1% 1.5% 0.4% 100.0% - SOURCES:ACI-NA

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dIRECTORS

James E. Benne

Metropolitan Washington

Airports Authority

thella F. Bwens

San Diego County Regional

Airport Authority

Brce Carer

Metropolitan Airport Authority

o Rock Island County

Nancy J. Clawsn

UBS Securities LLC

Associates Representative

Benjamin R. deCsa

Hartseld-Jackson Atlanta


thmas E. Greer

Monterey Peninsula Airport District

Braley S. Livingsn

Dane County Regional Airport

William F. Marrisn

Metropolitan Knoxville

Airport Authority

EXECUTIvE COMMITTEE

Chairman

Frerick (Rick) J. Piccl

Sarasota Manatee Airport Authority

Firs Vice Chairman

Ranall H. Walker

McCarran International Airport

Secn Vice Chairman

Jhn d. Clark, III

Jacksonville Aviation Authority

Secreary-treasrer

G. Hary Acree

Sacramento County Airport System

Immeiae Pas Chairman:

Seven J. Grssman

Oakland International Airport

Charles t. Skip Miller

Louisville Regional Airport Authority

Reginal K. Milley

EdmontonRegionalAirportAuthority

Sephen J. Michell

Tampa International Airport

Commissioners Representative

Ral L. Regala

Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority

Barry Rempel

Winnipeg Airports Authority Inc.

Leser W. Rbinsn

Wayne County Airport Authority

Sylvia Y. Sewar

Jackson Municipal Airport Authority

Immediate Past Chair, Commissioners Representative

William R. Vanecek

Bualo Niagara International Airport

James C. Cherry

Aeroports de Montreal

Canadian Airports Council Representative:

Ex-OfcioMember

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ACI-NA Aciat Bar f dirctr 2007dIRECTORS

dnal G. Anrews

VicePresident-Aviation

Reynolds, Smith and Hills, Inc.

Seven t. Balwin

VicePresident

The Louis Berger Group

Jseph didmiziChie Operating Ocer

Hudson Group

Shana Frsyhe

President

Alliance Airport Advertising

Rber A. Hazel

Managing Partner

EclatConsulting,Inc.

EXECUTIvE COMMITTEE

Chairman

Jseph W. Waller

VicePresident,BusinessDevelopment

HMSHost Corporation

Vice Chair

Ssan Krlan

SeniorVicePresident

First Albany Capital

Immeiae Pas Chair

Nancy J. Clawsn

Managing Director

UBS Securities LLC

ACI-NA Bar f

direcrs Liaisn

Seven J. Grssman

Director o AviationOakland International Airport

Port o Oakland

debrah t. Meehan

President & COO

SH&E,Inc.

davi Naleway

VicePresident

Parsons

Michael R. PackVicePresident&

Marketing Manager

HDREngineeringInc.

Mark A. Perryman

President

Landrum & Brown, Inc.

Rnal L. Seiner

PrincipalGensler


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dIRECTORS

Pascal Blanger

Qubec

Pal Beni

Ottawa

Larry BergVancouver

dr. Lly McCmb, Phd

Toronto

Richar Paqee

Victoria

William F. Resall

Saskatoon

Rb Rbicha

Moncton

EXECUTIvE COMMITTEE

Chairman

James C. Cherry

Montreal

Vice Chair

Barry Rempel

Winnipeg

Secreary-treasrerGarh F. Akinsn

Calgary

Immeiae Pas Chairman

Reg Milley

Edmonton

Chairman, Cncil f Chairs

Cliff Campbell

Charlottetown

Chairman, Small Airprs

Seve Baker

London, ON

Canaian Airprt Cunci dirctr

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TECHNOLOgIES COMMITTEE

Jhn Newsme

Greater Orlando Aviation Authority

COMMISSIONERS COMMITTEE

Sephen J. Michell

Tampa International Airport

ECONOMIC AffAIRS COMMITTEE

Lri M. Ballar

Wayne County Airport Authority

ENvIRONMENTAL AffAIRS COMMITTEESewar dallzell

Massachusetts Port Authority

fACILITATION wORKINg gROUP

Ana Srri

Miami International Airport

U.S. gOvERNMENT AffAIRS COMMITTEE

Mark Reis

Seattle-Tacoma International Airport

LEgAL AffAIRS COMMITTEE

Lisa H. Glsein

Maryland Aviation Administration

MARKETINg ANd COMMUNICATIONS

COMMITTEE

Jhn Krenic

VancouverInternationalAirportAuthority

PUbLIC SAfETy ANd SECURITy COMMITTEEMark B. Baly

Metropolitan Washington

Airports Authority

SMALL AIRPORTS COMMITTEE

davi N. Ewars, Jr.

Asheville Regional Airport Authority

OPERATIONS ANd TECHNICAL

AffAIRS COMMITTEE

daniel J. Mlly

Hartseld-Jackson Atlanta


U.S. INTERNATIONAL AIR SERvICE PROgRAM

Genar J. Pena

Houston Airport System

ACI-NA Cmmitt Cair

James Facee

PresidentandCEO

Fre Jnes

VicePresident,Operations

& Legal Aairs

daniel-Rber Gch

Director o Communications

Melanie Levac

Director, Small Airports

CANAdIAN AIRPoRTs CoUNCIl (CAC)

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EXECUTIvE LEAdERSHIP

Gregry Principa, PresidentandCEO

Paricia Hahn,GeneralCounselandExecutive

Director, ACI-NA Legal Center

Bre McAlliser,SeniorVicePresident,

Operations/Chie Financial Ocer

Arlene Mcderm, ExecutiveAssistanttothe

President and Liaison to the Board

gOvERNMENT AffAIRS

debrah McElry,SeniorVicePresident,

Government Aairs

Sc Weaver, Senior Director, Government Aairs

Pal Ebanks, Manager, Government Aairs

LEgAL AffAIRS

Paricia Hahn,GeneralCounselandExecutive

Director, ACI-NA Legal Center

James Briggs, Jr., Assistant General Counsel

CENTER fOR POLICy ANd REgULATORy AffAIRSRichar Marchi, Senior Advisor

Liying G,Director,EconomicAffairs

and Research

Jessica Seinhilber,Director,

EnvironmentalAffairs

A.J. Mln, Manager, Policy Analyst

Mirana Hran, Research Analyst

Sam McCrimmn, Intern Technical Aairs

SECURITy ANd ECONOMIC AffAIRSCharles Chambers, Jr.,SeniorVicePresident,

SecurityandEconomicAffairs

Lyia Kellgg, Senior Manager, Public Saety

and Security

Mary Lincer, Administrative Assistant, Security

andEconomicAffairs

INTERNATIONAL AffAIRS

diane Peersn, SeniorVicePresident,International Aairs

MEETINgS ANd MEMbER SERvICES

Amy Peers, VicePresident,Conference

Development and Member Services

Chrispher Rchee, Director, Conerences

Jeffrey Becker, Manager, Conerences

COMMUNICATIONS ANd MARKETINgEileen denne, SeniorVicePresident,

Communications and Marketing

thmas J. Smih, Director, Communications

Will Hhnance, Senior Manager,

Web Development

Megan Miller, Manager, Communications

AdMINISTRATION ANd HUMAN RESOURCES

Nancy Zimini, VicePresident,Administration

and Human Resources

Michelle Leslie, Senior Manager, Membership

Operations

Jseph Weilich, Database Administrator

and Chie Historian

Shawn Brisce, Manager,

Accounts and Registration

tijana Newman, Manager, Oce Services

Frank Ebanks, Oce Services Specialist

Michelle Anrian, Receptionist

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