Airports

It is always refreshing to see new airport infrastructure open, especially when it is a completely new facility like the sparkling Williston Basin International Airport (XWA) in North Dakota, which opens October 9. The $273 million airport will provide needed capacity for business and commercial aviation now, with room for future expansion. The new airport […]

It’s a Tuesday morning in February, and I’m headed to work. Don’t cry too hard for me, dear reader; work in this case involves a round trip to Rio de Janiero and back in the 767. Today’s commute to my base airport is a rare two-legger, and on the first leg I’m traveling on an […]

Right in time for the busy summer flying season, after several months of work on the surface of Runway 04-22 at Catalina Island’s Airport in the Sky (KAVX), also called ACE Clearwater Airfield, pilots can finally pop over for the immensely popular Buffalo burgers at the mountaintop airport’s restaurant – the DC-3 Gifts & Grill […]

SocialFlight has added a new feature called Burger Flight, which makes finding a terrific airport restaurant as easy as tapping on a screen. Burger Flight is included in SocialFlight’s free app, and it shows airport restaurants as burger symbols on the map. Thousands of airport restaurants are featured on the moving map. In addition to […]

Undecided pilots who are eligible to vote in the Chicago area might want to take a close look at Willie Wilson, who has vowed to reopen Meigs Field, should he be elected. Wilson estimates that the airport, which was located on a 120-acre man-made peninsula adjacent to downtown that is now Northerly Island Park, will […]

Work to restore the well-worn runway at Catalina Airport (KAVX), located on the island outside the Los Angeles metropolitan area, is well underway. More than 100 U.S. Marines and Navy sailors, who are working with the Catalina Island Conservancy as part of a partnership with the Department of Defense, arrived in January to begin work […]

General Aviation pilots in Erie, Pennsylvania, are up in arms after they say the airport is treating them unfairly in an effort to push away general aviation traffic from the Erie International Airport (KERI). The Erie Regional Airport Authority recently implemented a $2,000 annual licensing fee as well as insurance requirements of $1 million for […]

Here we go again. All flights were grounded at London Heathrow Airport on Tuesday night after a drone was sighted in the vicinity. It was an eerily similar repeat of an incident three weeks ago at nearby Gatwick Airport. The departures runway at Heathrow was closed and police helicopters were deployed after numerous sightings were […]

The extensive network of airports around the country is deteriorating rapidly as developers find great value in these sizable properties that are often located in desirable areas. The Marlboro Airport (9B1), a rural airport that has been in operation for nearly 100 years in Marlboro, Massachusetts just west of the Boston metropolitan area, will be […]

The Part 13 complaint the AOPA filed yesterday with the FAA on behalf of its membership focused on egregious FBO pricing at three primarily GA airports: Chicago’s Waukegan (UGN), Asheville NC (AVL) and Florida’s Key West International (EYW). The Part 13 complaint process is an informal method for impacted parties to ask the FAA to […]