The Wall Street Journal has a fascinating item today (via the WSJ’s great new Middle Seat Terminal blog) on the vigorous competition emerging between Moscow’s two main international airports. I’d long read of the older, state-owned Sheremetyevo Airport as a hellish transportation hub with limited services, long lines for immigration, and oft-solicited bribes. Then, according [...]
Posts Tagged ‘usa’
The private lives of airports
Posted in Evan's Commentary, tagged airports, competition, Deregulation 2.0, europe, usa on December 1, 2008 | 3 Comments »
“Wild times”: Southwest’s Gary Kelly announces service to MSP, discusses challenges in airline industry
Posted in Evan's News and Quick Takes, tagged airports, budget airlines, business, delta, faa, network airlines, northwest, open skies, southwest, travel, usa on October 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
DALLAS — Southwest is well-positioned in tricky times for the airline industry and will launch new service to Minneapolis-St. Paul in March 2009, Southwest Airlines chief Gary Kelly said today. The Twin Cities are the first new Southwest market since 2006, and the first planned service will be nonstop to Chicago’s Midway Airport.
The announcement of [...]
Midway officially sold
Posted in Evan's News and Quick Takes, tagged airports, competition, Deregulation 2.0, faa, usa on October 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
DALLAS — Chicago’s Midway Airport is the first major airport in the United States to be privatized. Yesterday it was announced that it had been sold to “a consortium consisting of Citi Infrastructure Investors, YVR Airport Services (a joint venture between Vancouver airport and Citi Infrastructure Investors) and John Hancock Life Insurance,” according to the [...]
Aviation08: McCain the perimeter-slayer?
Posted in Evan's Commentary, tagged airports, Aviation08, congress, travel, usa on August 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, like LaGuardia in New York, is well-known for its perimeter restrictions. Flights are limited to 1,250 miles from the airport. This restriction, which dates to 1969, is due in part to noise concerns but more to a kind of industrial policy: the desire to drive long-haul traffic from the desirable, [...]
Wide open skies
Posted in Evan's News and Quick Takes, tagged competition, europe, open skies, usa on August 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last week, the Financial Times carried an editorial on expanding “open skies” between the U.S. and Europe. After heralding the decline of flag carriers (even more marked with the proposed merger of BA and Iberia), the editors write: “Governments . . . must deal with the remaining obstacles to effective global airline consolidation.”
The US once [...]
FAA orders peak pricing . . . sort of
Posted in Evan's Commentary, tagged airports, delays, faa, regulation, travel, usa on July 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Over lunch today with Daniel Hall, we talked about the nation’s chronic underinvestment in infrastructure (and infrastructure maintenance). One of the key problems is what to do in the in-between time between our current system and our hypothetical, complete infrastructure Nirvana. The best way of allocating scarce transportation space — from highways to runways — [...]
Kansas City weighs airport light rail
Posted in Evan's News and Quick Takes, tagged airports, transit, travel, usa on July 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
…and finds that it’s not really a local priority. “We have other issues that are far more compelling,” says visitors bureau president Rick Hughes. And little wonder: Kansas City is a low-density, sprawling, suburban city without a solid downtown residential core. Most people would have to drive to rail stations to use the system. Kansas [...]
Aviation emissions and the environment: liveblogging the hearing
Posted in Evan's Commentary, tagged congress, environment, europe, regulation, usa on May 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The House Aviation Subcommittee is holding a hearing today on the environmental impact of aviation, especially emissions. I won’t be able to cover the entire session, but I’ll give you what I can.
Representative Jerry Costello (D-Ill.) offers his opening statement. He emphasizes that the need to reduce emissions is a corollary of the need to [...]
Airline regulation revisionists face the wrath of Kahn
Posted in Evan's Commentary, tagged air traffic control, competition, history, network airlines, regulation, usa on May 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Alfred Kahn, the eminent economist and chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board who oversaw airline deregulation in the 1970s, has published a fascinating new working paper on the AEI Reg-Markets Center site. He addresses the difference between “liberal” and “progressive” views on economic policy and regulation, and he argues that “progressivism” as defined by those [...]
Swine flu: the dark side of international air travel
Posted in Evan's Commentary, tagged asia, australia pacific, health, regulation, usa on April 27, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The outbreak and rapid spread of the H1N1 swine influenza virus in Mexico and now the United States puts policymakers and business leaders in a difficult position vis-a-vis air travel. Pandemics exploit all the virtues of the air travel boom of the past few decades — a system that transports people and goods for travel, [...]
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