location where aircraft take off and land with extended support facilities, mostly for commercial air transport
You may or may not have heard that come Jan. 1 Greensboro’s Piedmont Triad International Airport will become Central North Carolina International Airport: “Changing the name of the airport is…
Got a column out for Carolina Journal on some changes in the airline industry. Here’s it is in it’s entirety: CHARLOTTE — Local business leaders, economic development types, and government…
According to a North Carolina based real-estate company, Movoto, they have compiled a ranking of the top ten places to retire in North Carolina. They only chose cities with a…
Three items of note in the ongoing dispute about airport noise in the June minutes of the Airport Advisory Committee. All three items can expected to generate some media attention…
Via WFAE comes this quite stunning bit of work: the city-owned airport is red-balling a runway repaving job at US Airways’ request, to the tune of $3m. Details here.
Airports run into problems with their neighbors when they try to expand, but those are geographically limited. Rail service has more opportunity to make people angry, because it has a…
Let’s circle back around to the US Airways/Delta proposed slot swap. When we last left things, the U.S Department of Transportation gave a conditional yes, with the condition being that…
That quote illustrates the frustration felt by Orange County resident Cliff Leath, whose White Cross land is in the bulls eye for the proposed new airport that’s being pushed by…
US News recently calculated the “misery index” of airports nationwide and CLT came in near the top. In sum, CLT has a ton of full flights many of which are…
Pretty soon I will try to go out and do my emitting part as I have to drive to the airport. Well, with all due respect, Paul, unless you drove…
Don’t be surprised if US Airways’ woes out at Charlotte-Douglas seep into other carriers flying out of CLT. People are scrambling it get on anything that flies — particularly to…
In Haywood County there is talk about the county building an airport and running it, are counties in North Carolina in the airport business? (Maybe they could use the HOOD…