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NOVEMBER 2018 NEWS AND VIEWS FOR THE NEW YORK METRO AIRPORT COMMUNITY

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Conversation with

Congressman Meeks

BY JEFF YAPALATERAirport Voice interviewed

Congressman Meeks about the exciting and important things that are happening within the JFK Airport community dur-ing the era of redevelopment.

The Congressman rep-resents New York’s 5th Con-gressional District including JFK Airport and surrounding Queen’s communities and has been involved with JFK Air-port for years. He voted “Aye” on the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018 recently passed by Congress. This is a complex and exhaustive bill contain-ing many different aspects of airports, aviation and gives the FAA five more years of op-erability. However, there are many opportunities within this bill and Congressman Meeks has worked with lo-cal, state and federal agencies, elected officials and the com-munity in seeking to create

Let’s Go Brooklyn-Nets!NY’s JetBlue unveiled its lat-

est special aircraft design (livery) dedicated to the Brooklyn Nets. “BK Blue” will join JetBlue’s le-gion of New York-themed air-craft. JetBlue was named the Offi-cial Domestic Airline of Barclays

Center and the Brooklyn Nets in 2013 and has recently renewed its partnership for another five-year term. Now, JetBlue will take a piece of Brooklyn throughout its network as the new aircraft will travel on flights in the U.S., Latin

America and the Caribbean. This is an addition to a special tribute to Puerto Rico airline unveiled that special livery, dedicated to “La Isla del Encanto,” in San Juan. The A320 aircraft — regis-tration N779JB — is named “Blu-ericua.”, and including “I Love New York”, Red FDNY, Blueman-ity, Vets in Blue, Boston Red Sox, NYPD, ND NY Jets Green

The new reimagined JFK Airport begins $13 billion slated for redevelopment

BY JEFF YAPALATERGovernor Cuomo and the Port Author-

ity of NYNJ (PORT) revealed that two air-port terminal operators submitted and were given the go ahead to inject $10 bil-lion of the $13 billion for the JFK Airport Redevelopment project. After months of waiting for the winning announcements, Port said that the proposals given by Ter-minal One Group (TOGA) and JetBlue Terminal 5 were best suited for this first phase of the huge project which creates two anchor mega-terminals at the South and North ends of the current airport. These plans to redevelop JFK came after the Governor announced a $10 billion Vi-

sion Plan for JFK in January 2017. Since then the progress has been fast and in-tensive with a basic envision of design, specific proposals for the future airport, community meetings and plans in place to begin to put flesh on the bones in the next steps to a reality of the new “reimag-ined JFK”.

Cuomo, at the exclusive breakfast meeting in Manhattan, enthusiastically made public the details and brief time-line of how the process would work. The presentation was attended by several members of the Port Authority who in-cluded the Port Executive Director Rick Cotton, Aviation Director Huntley Law-

rence, and Port project manager, gov-ernment affairs director, minority af-fairs director, KFK terminal operators as well as potential investors from all the terminals interested in the project. Several other Port people who have been making the community meeting forums over the past couple of months were also on hand to demonstrate the Port’s plans to include a commitment to the Gover-nor’s nation-leading goal of 30 percent utilization of MWBEs, which applies to contracts as well as financing interests.

Port Executive Director Rick Cotton congratulated Arthur Molins, who rep-

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Billion dollar ladies. Klaudia Fitzgerald of Terminal 1 and Joanna Geraghty of Jetblue Terminal 5 represent $10 billion in investment in the new JFK Airport. Photo by Jeff Yapalater

Congressman Meeks with his sig-nature great smile. Photos by Jeff Yapalater

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Council for Airport Opportunity has jobsThe Council for Airport Op-

portunity (CAO) in conjunc-tion with the Port Authority and several vendors held a re-tail and food Service job fair at LaGuardia Airport. Situated in the iconic Marine Air Ter-minal with its WPA era fresco adorning the walls, this job fair

targeted those job seekers with customer service, food and re-tail experience asking “ Are you ready for your career to reach new heights?”

Billed as part of Jobtober-fest, applicants met with rep-resentatives from concessions soon to pen at Terminal B at

LaGuardia Airport.CAO partners with other

airport related businesses and holds these type of job fairs regularly.

To keep in touch with when and where and what the next job fair has to offer, goto, www.caonynj.com

Veterans Day Salutes

Many events and discounts are held this month in honor of our Veterans.

Here are some:Noveber 11, Saturday-

Queens Veterans Day Pa-rade,

November 11: NYC Vet-erans Parade

November 4, Saturday: Theater of War at Queens Borough Central Public Li-brary, www.towqueenscen-trallibrary.eventbrite.com

November 6, Thurs-day: The Salute to Veter-ans. Hillcrest Veterans Sq. 162nd St & Jnion Tpke. 6pm.

Assisted by Boy Scouts of Ameica Troop & Pack 351 and NY Military Youth Cadets. Info [email protected]

November 6: Vaughn Veterans group is partner-ing with the NYC Depart-ment of Sanitation to run a community clean-up event by the college,10am-3pm.

November 12, Sunday: A Night of Heroes and Her-itage The Paladin Award Recognition, 5-11 PM. Ma-rina Del Rey Caterers at 1 Marina Drive, Bronx County

A salute to the Veter-an’s of the 65th Infantry Regiment of Puerto Rico, Iraq/Afghanistan Veter-ans, Vietnam Veterans, NYPD,FDNY and Correc-tion Officers.

A portion of the pro-ceeds will be donated to Puerto Rico Hurricane Re-lief. Enjoy a night of Food, Open Bar, DJ, Dancing.

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Retail Benefits:Cradle of Aviation in

Garden City is a Blue Star Museum where all active duty military personnel and their families are ad-mitted free to our museum galleries. JetBlue offers free

Veterans Advantage discounts: www.veter-ansadvantage.com. Veter-ans. Active Duty. Retiree. Family.

Bed Bath & Beyond is offering 25% off an entire in-store purchase made be-tween Nov. 9 and Nov. 12 by military members, mil-itary retirees, veterans, and their immediate family members through Veterans Advantage. Participating stores also include Christ-mas Tree Shops, Buy Buy Baby, Harmon Face Values, Harmon Discount, & Cost Plus World Markets. Sim-ply show your VetRewards Card from Veterans Advan-tage in store at checkout and save 25% on your en-tire cart.

Free IMAX Movie Screening of Dunkirk, 5 PM

AMC Loews 34th Street, IMAX Theater, 312 W. 34th Street

The Sue Baer Runway Run at Newark Airport was held in conjunction with An-gel Flights whose mission is to arrange free air transpor-tation so children and adults may access life-saving medi-cal care.

According to Barbara Sica , Angel Flight NE is a nonprofit organization that coordinates flights through-out the Northeast for chil-dren and adults who need to access life-saving medical care outside of their region.

We provide our services for free and for as long and as of-ten as a patient needs our as-sistance. Since our founding, we have arranged over 74,000 children and adults on more than 65,000 flights and flown over 14 million miles. Nearly 35% of our flights are coor-dinated for patients from the New York/ New Jersey area. We have over 135 pilots for this area as well that do-nate their time, private gen-eral aviation planes, fuel and compassion to assist patients

in need of air transportation. We also have partnerships with commercial airlines such as JetBlue and Cape Air who provide us free seats on their aircraft.

This is the 2nd year that the NIAMCO and the New York/New Jersey Port Au-thority has held this event to benefit Angel Flight NE. Last year alone the funds raise from the Run the Run-way assisted us to coordinate more than 80 flights of heal-ing and hope.”

Verdia Noel and Teri Artis of CAO meeting with prospective job candidates at LaGuardia Jobtoberfest! Photo by Jeff Yapalater

Racers and supporters of the Annual Sue Baer Run (at Newark Airport), Heather DiLuzio and Cheryl Birch, both of Angel Flight NE with Linda Dutko, Zone Control Supervisor for United Airlines. Photo courtesy of AngelFlight

U.S. Marine Veteran and 28 year Port Authority veteran as for-mer Commanding Officer of Port Authority Police at JFK Airport, previous Port AuthorityDeputy Inspector and Acting Director of Public Safety Frank Fox. He served in the Marines from 1956-1958. Photo by Jeff Yapalater

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BY JEFF YAPALATERThe JFK Airport Redevel-

opment Community Advisory Council met for the first time behind closed doors Monday October 16th to hold its first council meeting. Comprised of community leaders and elected leaders who represent Queens,

the promised JFK Rede-velopment Council was cre-ated by the Port Authority to include the community in the redevelopment plan. This community council will act as a conduit of information between the Queens area and Port Authority in planning for the JFK Vision plan proposed by the Governor in 2017. Gov-ernor Cuomo’s support of this construction development will be evident in the Council business as it provides ways and means for interested mi-nority contractors to partici-pate in minimum of 30% set aside for minority participa-tion in the construction of the planned redevelopment.

The council is comprised of 40 or so members who met with top people from Port Au-thority including Executive Director Rick Cotton, Aviation Director Huntley Lawrence, Government and council meeting facilitator Justin Ber-nbach, Congressman Gregory Meeks and others who were on hand to set up guidelines and a working framework for the council. One person at the meeting said “ the whole thing was exciting”, referring to the first steps in outlining the purpose, direction and orga-nizational procedures of the council. Going forward these Council meetings will be open to the public.

According the Port Author-ity there is no specific date now for these upcoming public meetings nor is there an an-nounced physical address for the community center and nor is there another date for the community forums that have been held to receive input from the communities most

affected by the redevelopment plan. The past three commu-nity meetings had the pur-pose of announcing the time line of the redevelopment, gen-eral financing, minority con-tractor participation and the announcement of many jobs. Future Council meetings and planned community forums will drill down more into the specifics as well as strive for a community benefits agree-ment.

The real first step of the re-development started with on-going construction of the TWA Hotel which will be completed by the Spring of 2019. The sec-ond step was the announce-ment by the Port Authority that t1 and T5 are the as initial foundation of redevelopment partners and who will likely be awarded contracts for the airport redevelopment in the coming months.

The Vision plan initially announced in January 2017 has recently gained traction by the Governor’s and Execu-

tive Director Rick Cotton an-nouncement recently which unveiled major airport invest-ments and creation of two ter-minal anchors by JetBlue and Terminal One Group. These two terminals groups have proposed a combined $10 bil-lion investment in the JFK

Airport redevelopment which now stands at a total of $13 bil-lion.

This council is one of the many community outreach ef-forts by the Port to bring the surrounding communities in the development process early and to keep them involved.

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November 11 is Veterans Day. This is a day for all Americans to come together to honor those who have served to protect our Country. Let’s not forget the cur-rent service men and women who are overseas fi ght-ing terrorism and help keep us safe. Thank You for Your service everyone.

For those less fortunate, the The JFK Chamber of Commerce is holding its annual coat drive. Please contact Clorinda Antonucci, the Chamber Executive Director for locations to drop these needed garments.

The JFK Rotary is helping those in need as well

by donating 50 gift cards to the Chapel at JFK for dis-tribution to the needy for Thanksgiving.

The LaGuardia Kiwanis Club is holding a Thanksgiving Turkey Giveway and a Christmas Turkey Giveaway. Both at Episcopal Church of Grace and Resurrection, East Elmhurst, NY

November should be called “Vaughnember”. Vaughn College is fi lling the month with it’s annual Gala, an in-ternship fair for businesses and two open houses for stu-dents to visit the campus and consider enrolling for a fu-ture in the fi elds of aeronautics and technology. Vaughn

College Scholarship Application due (For more info log onto https://www.vaughn.edu/admissions/port/)

The Council for Airport Opportunity has stepped up efforts to assist airport companies in fi nding good employees. Contact, www.caonynj.com

Our SCNG family holds events honoring those men and women who exemplify professionalism, leadership and community service. If you wish to nominate someone for recognition, please email, [email protected].

Happy Thanksgiving All.

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RECOGNITIONSCONGRATULATIONS: PAPD new

positions: Charles O’Connor is In-spector at JFK; Richard Bellucci is Deputy Inspector at JFK; Robert Terrett is Inspector at LaGuardia Airport PAPD.

CONGRATULATIONS: Mark Flug, promoted to Senior Airport Ops Manager Cathay Pacific, JFK

CONGRATULATIONS: Wally Luber joining GINIA Group working with the JFK USPS

CONGRATULATIONS: Joseph D’Ascoli of Global Elite Group. 2018 Airport Business Top 40 under 40.

CONDOLENCES: Passing of Bruce Whitman, Beloved CEO, Flight Safety International.

CONDOLENCES: Friends and fam-ily Patrick Minter, JFK Customs Border Protection

SAVE THE DATESNOVEMBER 1: Thursday. NJ Air

Services Development Office (ASDO)) will host aviation in-dustry buyers and businesses from Newark Liberty Int’l and Teterboro Airports Contact: (973) 961-4278

NOVEMBER 8: Vaughn College Gala Honoring Mary Ellen Jones, Vice President, Americas Sales, Pratt & Whitney.

NOVEMBER 9: Southeast Queens Renaissance Ball at the Golden Terrace.

NOVEMBER 13: Air Cargo Conges-tion forum. Bldg 14, Cafeteria.Register,www.airforwarders.org

NOVEMBER 16: KAAMCO Dinner Dance aboard the Spirit of NY, Chelsea Pier, NYC. Reserve: [email protected]

DECEMBER 4: Tuesday. JFK Ro-tary’s Special Needs Kids’ Christ-mas Party at JetBlue’s Buiding #81

DECEMBER 7:Friday. December 7th, Newark International Airport Managers Council will host the Transportation Person of the Year Black Tie Dinner Dance at The Marriott Newark Airport Hotel. Contact, (973) 961-4278.

NOTE: Building Success with AWCWA Fall 2018 Pre-Appren-ticeship/Construction & Profes-sional Service Training Program Contac:[email protected]

REGULAR MEETINGSTHE JFK CHAMBER OF COM-

MERCE BOARD OF DIREC-TORS: Meets monthly at Bldg. 14, JFK Airport. 9:15 open to public.

KAAMCO-JFK & PORT AUTHORITY:Monthly meetings, 2nd Wednesday of month, 9; 45 Bldg. 14, JFK; Kaamco Cargo

Meeting last Thursday of the month.

CALMM-COUNCIL OF AIRLINE MAINTENANCE MANAGERS 2ND TUESDAY MONTHLY. BLDG 14. 12:30 pm2nd floor.

LAAMCO, LAGUARDIA. MEET-INGS TAKE PLACE ON THE FIRST WEDNESDAY OF EVERY MONTH UNLESS NOTED OTH-ERWISE. LOCATION: United Conference Room 3721 in the CTB. 11am.

JFK ROTARY CLUB: Meets for din-ner the 1st Wednesday of the month and for lunch the third Wednesday of the month at JFK Hilton Garden Inn. Contact www.jfkrunwayrun.org

JFK AIRPORT CUSTOM BROKERS AND FREIGHT FORWARDERS MEETING: Contact Joel (516) 250-0588

LGA KIWANIS: Meets 2nd and 4th Tuesday at noon at the LaGuardia Marriott Hotel.

CIVIL AIR PATROL: MEETINGS 2ND & 4TH MONDAYS, JFK BUILDING 14, 2ND FL.

NOVEMBERNOVEMBER 1: Community Mayors

Special Children Charity Gala, Water Club, NY. [email protected]

NOVEMBER 1: New Jersey ASDO’S 23rd ANNUAL AVIATION NET-WORKING EVENT 9:00 a.m. to 12 Noon (973)961-4278. The Ramada Newark Airport Hotel. Call973-961-4278

NOVEMBER 7: Cradle of Aviation 16th Air & Space Gala. Honoring Walter Cunningham, Apollo Pilot; Tyler Morse TWA Flight Center, Teresa Ferraro, East/West In-dustries.

NOVEMBER 7: LAAMCO Monthly meeting. United Conference Room 3721 in the CTB

NOVEMBER 7:DiwaliNOVEMBER 8: Thursday. Vaughn

College Gala Honoring Mary Ellen Jones, Vice President, Americas Sales, Pratt & Whitney. Contact : Neil Gouveia 718-429-6600 ext 112.

NOVEMBER 8: Borough President Melinda Katz will host her annual BoroVeterans Day Observance Ceremony, Queens Boro Hall at 11:00 AM.

NOVEMBER 8: LIIEA Meeting. Sub-ject: Trade Wars Impact, Cyber Attack threats.

NOVEMBER 9: Southeast Queens Chamber Commerce Renaissance Ball. 7pm-Midnight. Honors Philippa Karteron

NOVEMBER 10: Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology Open House. Interested college candidates have a chance to see the campus, meet with faculty and students.

NOVEMBER 13: Airforwarders present: Air Cargo Congestion: Finding Solutions panel discus-sion. Building 14, cafeteria. 4:30-7:00pm. See website www.airfor-warders.org

NOVEMBER 13: Tuesday. CAO Warehouse and Ramp Agent recruitment event. Newark loca-tion! 9am-2pm. Call 973-622-4537 for details.

NOVEMBER 13: Queens Chamber of Commerce host “Business Card Exchange-Latin Night” at Resorts World Casino, 6pm-8pm Call: 718-898-8500.

NOVEMBER 15: JFK Air Cargo As-sociation and Cargo Sales Man-ager’s Club Annual Thanksgiving Luncheon. 1230L at Bruno’s Res-taurant. Pls donate a food item. www.jfkaircargo.net

NOVEMBER 15: Vaughn College Internship Fair. 10am-1pm. Busi-ness vendors invited to exhibit. Call (718) 429-6600 x 148. NO-VEMBER 15: Thursday. Wings Club Luncheon 11:45am. The Yale Club, Speaker Robin Hayes.

NOVEMBER 16: Friday. KAAMCO Dinner Dance on “The Spirit of NY”.

NOVEMBER 16: Free Health, Well-ness & Safety Fair. Citimed with JFKIAT & Christ for World Cha-pel, T4, 11am-3pm.

NOVEMBER 16: 21st Annual Eve-ning of Angels Gala. Seaport Hotel, Boston. Call (978)794-6868

NOVEMBER 17: Vaughn Fall Open

House. Interested college can-didates have a chance to see the campus, meet with faculty and students.

NOVEMBER 20: Mawlid-al-Nabi-birthday of Mohammad

NOVEMBER 21: JFK Rotary Lun-cheon. Noon-1:30. Hilton Garden Inn.

NOVEMBER 22: ThanksgivingNOVEMBER 28: Queens Boy

Scouts America, 9th Annual Gala, Salute to Women in Leadership Awards.

NOVEMBER 28: SBA Certified Programs (HUBZone, 8A, Vet-erans and Women-owned Small Businesses)6:00 p.m. NACC 26 Court SAt,Bklyn: Register, www.nacc.nyc

DECEMBERDECEMBER 3-10: ChanukahDECEMBER 3: Monday December

3 – United Community Civic As-sociation & the Port Authority of NY & NJ Annual Tree Lighting at McManus Park at 6pm

DECEMBER 4: JFK Rotary’s Special Needs Kids’ Christmas Party at JetBlue’s Building #81

DECEMBER 4: Professional Women in Construction Annual Holiday Party from 5:30pm to 9:30pm. More information to come. http://www.pwcusa.org/event/holiday-party/

DECEMBER 5: Chanukah Celebra-tion at Terminal 4,JFKIAT. Syna-gogue and Chapel area.

DECEMBER 5: Community Mayor’s Operation Santa Claus .JFK Air-port, Hangar 19. By invitation. [email protected]

DECEMBER 5: LAAMCO Monthly meeting. LaGuardia Airport, United Conference Room 3721 in the CTB

DECEMBER 7: KAAMCO Cargo Operations Holiday Party. Honor-ing Richard Burkhardt, AA Cargo. (347-908-7647) Reservations.

DECEMBER 7: NIAMCO, Newark Airport, Black Tie Dinner Dance, Honoring John Maagnificom GM, Marriott Hotel. Event benefits University Hospital MICU, Helene

Gibbs, 973-961-4278DECEMBER 8: Saturday. Christ for

the World Chapel Annual Christ-mas Concert. T4,arrivals hall. 2-6pm

DECEMBER 8: Buddhist Bodhi DayDECEMBER 11: JFK Chamber of

Commerce special Seminar on “ How the new Sexual Harassment Law Will Impact Your Business”. JFK Hilton Hotel, Contact [email protected]

DECEMBER 12: JFK Chamber of Commerce Directors General Monthly Meeting. JFK Interna-tional Airport, Building 14. De

DECEMBER 12: KAAMCO/PortAu-thority Monthly meeting.JFK Air-port, Building 14.

DECEMBER 12: SBA: Minority Cer-tifications: Doing Business with NYC & NYS 6:00 p.m. NACC 26 Court SAt,Bklyn: Register, www.nacc.nyc

DECEMBER 13: Annual JFK Air Cargo Association Toys for Tots Luncheon. Russo’s On the Bay. Contact Joe Badamo for reser-vations, sponsorships 718-995-5010, Please bring a toy.

DECEMBER 20: Thursday. FBI/USSS Holiday Party.

DECEMBER 25: Merry Christmas

BUSINESS AVIATION

INTERNATIONALNOVEMBER 19: IAWA Women

Aviation Leaders Europe Forum, Aero-Club de France, Paris.

DEC 10-12: MEBAA Show. Contact Keith, Tel: +971 4 6033300

AIRPORT RESOURCESHOUSES OF WORSHIP: Terminal 4,

Upper Level, Chapels area.AIR SERVICES DEVELOPMENT

OFFICE (ASDO): Organization that brings together aviation industry buyers with local busi-nesses. www.asdoonline.com

USO: Jet Blue Terminal 5, lower ar-rivals level.

GLOBAL ENTRY OFFICE: Terminal 4, lower arrivals level.

EMERGENCY AIRPORT DENTIST: Building 14, W. Wing, (718) 656-4747

AMBULANCE: 718-244-4333 ( DO NOT CALL 911) Ambulift from plane Medical Walk-In Building 14, West Wing

PAFCU CREDIT UNION: Building 14, W. Wing (718) 656-1774Fri-day from 8 am – noon and 1 pm – 5 pm

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October was Breast Cancer Awareness Nonth and the air-port community embraced sup-port for this cause. Companies througout the aviation world held special moments to recog-nize the dangers of unchecked health, women in peril and those women who are struggling with this disease.

It is a testament to the social responsibility of so many people and companies at the at the air-ports who give of their time and resources to help make thecase for awareness and prevention.

stands with women fi ghting cancer

Breast Cancer Awareness Month(1) World of Pink Foundation Gala and Fashion Show founder Christine Guarino, (middle rear) with Sisters of Survival raising $30,000 to fi ght cancer. (2) Marine Air Termnal A employees from Alaska Air and Primefl ight stand fi rm on Cancer Awareness Month. (3) Sheltair Aviation employees Brianna Graham and Day-si Azevedo show the fund raising products that they are selling to reaise Breast Cancer Awareness at Sheltair LaGuardia. (4) Air Cargo Association crew of Jim Burnett, John Ryan, Tammy Card, President Joe Badamo, Mike Bednarz, and First Company Pink la-dies Donna Cioffi , Linda Bonanno and Zwanger Radiology Taylor Martello display Got Checked products for sale to fund efforts for early cancer detection. (5) Donna and Janet Sarrica of the New Park Pizza restaurant in Howard Beach support Maimonides Hospital Cancer care wearing their shirts during Breast Cancer Awareness month. Photo by Jeff Yapalater

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Sixty three years ago the Our lady of the Skies Chapel opened at JFK Airport, then called Idelwild. This October the Chapel celebrated the 2018 Annual Luncheon sponsored by the Catholic Guild of JFK Airport. As in recent years, this was an occasion both to recognize men and women who exemplify achievement in our aviation community, as well as to present young people the Yolan DePhillips scholarship co-sponsored by Terminal 4 JFKIAT, for con-tinuing education.

This years recipients of the special recognition were Tyler Morse CEO of the new TWA Hotel, Terminal One Landside Manager Klaudia Fitzgerald and Bishop Chappetto, Vicar General Diocese of Brooklyn.

All honorees shared the same sentiments of personal appreciation from the Chapel, Church, friends and co-work-ers. Fitzgerald thanked her mother for their emigration to the USA when she was young.

She also gave profuse thanks to her co-workers at Terminal One. Morse took the opportu-nity to share interesting his-toric tidbits about JFK Air-port, its iconic TWA terminal and the soon-to-be TWA Hotel.

This gathering is symbolic of the spirit of camaraderie, professional bonding and be-lief in the good that does and can exist in the world as evi-

denced through its generous donation of two $4,000 schol-arship to two deserving young people; Alexis Groark and Genesis Milleni Azor.

Father Chris Piasta of the Chapel said, ” We are grateful for all the support from all our friends at the airport...it is be-cause of your support that we proudly serve JFK and LGA for over six decades”.

The Yolan DePhillips scholarship award of $4,000 goes to deserving win-ner Genesis Milleni Azor, who mother works at JFK Airport, sponsored by Our Lady of the Skies and co-sponsor JFKIAT represented by President Roel Huinink. The second award went to Alexis Groark, daughter of Ca-thay Pacific Regional Director, Jim Groark.

Klaudia Fitzgerald, Lady of the Skies honoree flanked by Terminal One business partners, Korean Air Station Manager Mr. Jong Sim; T1 Operations Director Steve Rowland; T1 Financial Director, Manoj Pate; General Council Lufthansa Arthur Molins; COO Air France JFK, Jacques Malot and JAL JFK Director of Flight Operations Joe Gutierrez.

George Tasigianis of API Hotel and Roula Tziveleki of Terminal One JFK Air[port meet CEO Tyler Morse of MCR and TWA Flight Center at JFK Air-port before the Our Lady of Skies award luncheon.

Father Chris Piasta of Our Lady of the Skies at JFK Airport points to a happy Ed Dough-erty of Unity Electric who won the $5,000 cash raffle.

Literally movers and shakers at JFK Airport are Joe Periera of Swissport, John Mangano of Triangle Services and Francis Otto of GSI, now dnata.

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community members, economic devel-opment groups, transportation advo-cates, unionized labor, civic stakehold-ers, and local business leaders who believe it is essential for New York’s future to have a fast and reliable tran-sit alternative for LaGuardia Airport travelers and workers.

More than a dozen organiza-tions joined together to announce the launch of A Better Way to LGA, a new coalition in support of Governor An-drew Cuomo’s proposed AirTrain to LaGuardia Airport (AirTrain LGA). The coalition is comprised of commu-nity members, economic development groups, transportation advocates, unionized labor, civic stakeholders, and local business leaders, and is co-chaired by the Queens Chamber of Commerce, the Association for a Bet-ter New York, and the New York Build-ing Congress.

A long list of businesses are sup-portive of the new airtrain having seen the success of the JFK Airport train. Being that LaGuardia Airport is currently undergoing an $8-billion renovation during which the airport will be completely rebuilt voices are being heard advancing the cause of one at LaGuardia. “Queens businesses are forced to pay a hidden Grand Cen-tral Parkway tax due to constant traf-fic on the roads around LaGuardia, de-

laying deliveries and hurting workers. And it’s only getting worse each year,” said Tom Grech, President and CEO of the Queens Chamber of Commerce. “The AirTrain will take millions of cars off the road and reduce traffic on our local streets, making it easier for Queens residents to get around, small businesses to make deliveries, and em-ployees and customers to get to work or shop locally. It’s a proven model that has done wonders for JFK, and we sim-ply can’t wait any longer to move for-ward on this project.”

Community Benefits Agreement plan for JFKState Senator Sander’s office has

joined the movement to include Com-munity Bebenifts Agreement pro-gram into the JFK Airport Redevel-opment Plan.

In a press statement he says that elected officials representing South-east Queens from the New York State Senate and New York State Assem-bly formed a coalition of stakehold-ers known as the Queens Connection Team to collectively draft the CBA. The goal was to ensure further de-velopment of local businesses; create job training and placement; increase educational services; meet the 30 per-cent state goal for contracting with Minority and Women-Owned Busi-ness Enterprises; and to enhance the quality of life for the Southeast Queens community.

Sander’s proposal is one of sev-eral that is being proposed that will be discussed, negotiated and finaized by the Community Advisory Coun-cil that was created by the Port to in-clude acommunity leaders involve-ment on a host of matters and issues related to the Reimagined JFK.

Sanders listed a couple of groups in his proposal which included The

Queens Connection Team consists of representatives from Community Board 12, Community Board 14; Sup-thin Boulevard BID; the Association of Minority Enterprises of New York, the Center for Community Advance-ment; Rev. Phil Craig of Greater Springfield Community Church and other stakeholders and

the NYCAR Committee which has also weighed in on ths CBA initiative and has asked others to help them form a coalition as well for the inclu-sion of benefits in any redevelopment as put forward by the Port Authority in ints public forums held recently on the subjects of the JFK Airport growth.

The Port Authority Community Advisory Council had an initial or-ganizational meeting recently and it is expected thatits first publicmeet-ing will be in December.

The Sander’s CBA, which can be found at the link below, is a DRAFT, which is still being finalized.

Hereis a link to the draft proposal out forth by Senator Sanders:

https://www.nysenate.gov/sites/default/files/article/attachment/cba_draft.pdf

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CARGO SHORTSJFK Cargo Forum

The Airforwarders Association will host a panel meeting on Novem-ber 13 in the cafeteria at Building 14, 4:40-7pm. A panel of local thought leaders will discuss, congestion, invest,ents and the future of cargo at JFK.Please make reservations at www.airforwarders.org. Sponsored in part by Mobile Air. This will be a strong interactive program.

WFS goes Italian

American Airlines Cargo, WFS launch operations in MilanNina ChamlouOctober 5, 2018 Carriers, News

American Airlines Cargo is con-tinuing to invest in its European presence with the launch of opera-tions at Worldwide Flight Services’ (WFS) new Milan Malpensa Airport (MXP) cargo terminal, which will handle the airline’s daily flights to New York (JFK) and Miami (MIA).

The northern Italian hub man-ages 54 percent of Italy’s air cargo traffic and hosts 115 all-cargo flights per week, MXP said. Last month, WFS opened the 53,000-square-foot

MXP cargo terminal, with con-tracts from China Cargo Airlines and American Airlines Cargo al-ready under its belt. The facility has the capacity to accommodate a diverse portfolio of goods, includ-ing auto parts, fashion and phar-maceuticals. WFS also renewed its contract with Thai Airlines across France extending a decades old re-latiobnship.

Kenya AirWorldwide Flight Services is han-

dling the new Kenya Ailines which began last in October. An arrival cel-ebration was held in JFKIAT to wel-come Kenya to JFK Airport and a good load of cargo was loaded for the return trip to Kenya according to a fround handler.

The Lufthansa Group reported revenues from its Logistics busi-ness segment up 11% y-o-y in 3Q18, Higher revenues were a response to a more favorable pricing en-vironment, which boosted cargo yields, and were the result of an in-crease in marketable cargo capac-ity across the Lufthansa Cargo net-

work. Air cargo capacity, measured in available cargo-tonne-kilometers (AFTKs) rose 5% year-over-year in the first nine months of 2018, in part. In May 2018, Lufthansa Cargo and United Airlines also launched their long-awaited joint venture, which has boosted trans-Atlantic traffic.

Qatar e-cmailQatar is using a fully auto-

mated mail management system across its global network in more than 4 fzen stations. Qatar Air-ways chief officer cargo Guil-laume Halleux said, “This is certainly a game-changer in the industry as we move forward with our automation and digitalisation initiatives that not only enhance the customer experience, but also demonstrate our contribution to the environment by implement-ing 100% paperless operations.” Vice president of network inte-gration strategy at Descartes, Jos Nuijten, added: “As international e-commerce growth continues to increase demand for air mail

transportation, our technology improves operational productiv-ity and provides greater visibility essential to transforming the cus-tomer experience.”

Iceland AirIceloandAir has reduced its cargo

presence at JFK due to coast cutting at the airline. Their freighter service is no longer active and most of the employees at Building 78 are leaving their service to a GSA company.

SwissportChina’s HNA’s Swissport contini-

ues to be the subject of industry talk that it may be up for purchase as had been the thought for several months evenas it picks upnew business and shares good financil results. Word has it that investment firms such as Cerberus and Singapore state invest-ment firm Temasek, Brookfield As-set Management are considering the acquisition for the ground handler. Cerberus recently purchased WFS so another large acquistion would increase Cerberus’s footprint across the world.

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Rehab of JFK Runway DiscussedThree community hear-

ings were held for public comment on environmental impact from the proposed con-struction on runway 13L-31R at JFK airport as part of the approval process for the run-way rehab project,

In accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969, a Draft Environmental Assess-ment (EA) has been prepared for the proposed Reconstruc-tion of Runway 13L-31R and Associated Taxiways project at John F. Kennedy Interna-tional Airport (JFK). The Proposed Project includes the reconstruction of Run-way 13L-31R in concrete, the construction of a new high speed taxiway, and the re-alignment of Taxiways U and V. The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey (Port) in-vited the public to submit, in writing, comments on the Draft EA prepared for the Reconstruction of Runway 13L-31R and Associated Taxi-ways project.

There are two areas of con-cerns each by a different com-munity of the airport; one is the public which feels the im-

pact from noise pollution and environmental damage while the other is the the airline community which sees the im-pediment and other issues re-lated to aircraft operations at the airport,

Port had three consecu-tive evening meetings for public comment on the pro-posed rehabiitation of run-way 13L-31R and the envi-ronmentalimpact the new concrete paving would have. At one of the meetings two environmental engineer-ing companies displayed in-foamtion about the work to be done and the impact stud-ies that were made. The larg-est objection from a couple of people familiar with the air-port was the change of the flight path due to the use of different runways. One com-pany representative pointed out the slight changes of flight patterns but insisted that the noise levels would not increase due to the con-struction. Another objection over the repaving was de-bated. It was the contention of the engineeers that the new pavement is more stable, not intrusive and since it is

meant to last for forty years that this was a benefit with-out environmental impact.

The airlines have their own point of view. 13L-31R is a major runway at JFK and there has been a lot of con-cern over the impact that the closure of this runway would have on the aircraft move-ments along with flight sched-uling. Unlike the public dis-cussion, there is no discussion as to the project going forward since it is in the best interests

of aviation safety that this re-pavement be done.

At a recent KAAMCO meeting, there was concern with the months construction frame with over the possibi-ity of delays, diversion of air-craft, and lack of availabiiity of gates when bad weather hits the area. But according to the FAA Air Traffic Control comments, they are working closely with the terminal op-erators, airlines and Port Au-thority to mitigate any disrup-

tive construction actions. In a recent meeting with the Port and the airport community a lot was discussed about the interruption of regular opera-tions, and ways in which the Port has improved many con-ditions that could negatively affect the airport. Based on recommendations from the LaHood and IATA report amd cpmments, Port has intensi-fied its focus on improving all aspects of airport operations which could help during the runway closure.

The Draft Environmental Assessment document for the upcoming JFK Runway 13L-31R rehabilitation project is available for public review and comment on the Port Au-thority of New York and New Jersey website via the follow-ing link: https://www.panynj.gov/about/studies-reports.html.

Note the public comment period officially closed on Monday, October 29, 2018.

For more information re-garding the runway proj-ect please use the following link: https://www.panynj.gov/press-room/press-item.cfm?headLine_id=2998

JFKIAT announced a partner-ship with CrowdVision, an indus-try-leading passenger measurement and analytics solution, to optimize operations, layouts, and processes throughout the terminal.

The technology, set to be largely deployed by the end of 2018, will con-tinue to improve the passenger expe-rience for the more than 21 million passengers who pass through Termi-nal 4 each year. It will be installed at three different locations throughout Terminal 4: curbside, so that action can be taken to manage passenger and vehicles arrival congestion; in the Departures Area, to ensure the check-in desks of airlines and other partners are staffed to provide service to pas-sengers; and at security checkpoints, to measure and expedite wait times in the general and TSA Pre-check lines and during the ticket checking and se-curity screening processes.

Said Roel Huinink, President and

CEO of JFKIAT, the company which operates Terminal 4. “With passenger counts continuing to soar, the capa-bilities provided by the CrowdVision solution will allow us to accommodate the rising volume in the most efficient and proactive way possible.”

The system is a combination of the CrowdVision measurement solution and Copenhagen Optimization’s Bet-ter Airport modeling product, which work in tandem to provide live data, operational insights and forecasting, and planning tools which allow de-cision-makers to optimize, analyze, and improve operations for supe-rior passenger management. Using artificial intelligence-enabled com-puter vision technology to measure real-time passenger activity, Crowd-Vision collects and provides data to Better Airport, which is then used to produce the most accurate forecasts and plans for allocating resources and optimizing operations.

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Chris Segueira of ESA Associatesengineering points our the projected change in flights over nearby JFK Airport during Runway 13L 32R reha-bilitation. Photo by Jeff Yapalater

The T4 community, has been working to raise funds for the American Cancer Society’s Making Strides campaign for several years. This year the T4 team is expected to raise approximately $20,000 for the cause. Photo courtesy of JFKIAT

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FOCUS ON THE PEOPLE THAT MAKE OUR AIRPORTS FLY

Airport Faces

(01) Celso Alvarez, Associate Vice President of Enroll-ment at Vaughn College, is happy for the new students at Vaughn.

(02) Pamela Nucifore is the LGA Chief Pilot and first female Chief Pilot at Endeavor Air, who interacted with children at Kids Day at LaGuardia Airport.

(03) Judah Price is one of the young girls who is a member of the Black Pilots Association on Long Island.

(04) Genci Malo, Duty Manager Terminal One Group, JFK Airport.

(05) Shelley LaRose Arken, Commissioner, Long Island MacArthur Airport. Serving mid-island.

(06) Raymond Mayo, Board Member LaGuardia Kiwanis and CEO MPSI Security. You will always find Ray working diligently on behalf of the LGA Kiwanis.

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(07) Laurelli Faustin is a Cus-toms and Border Protection Officer at the Port of JFK.

(08) Lucio Stanzione, long time Swissport customer ser-vice representative at Alitalia JFK.

(09) Verika Thompson, Al-lied Universal security guard at Terminal 1 is a friendly face for arriving international travelers.

(10) CBP TTRT team member, Ashley Perez.

(11) Swissport baggage han-dler Richard Black who is also a member of the Black Pilots Association on Long Island.

(12) Welcome to Tracy Kass as General Manager Hilton Garden Inn, JFK Airport

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Carlyle acquires Apollo Aviation Group

The Carlyle Group is an investment partner in Termi-nal One Group for the JFK redevelopment plans announced recently by the Port Authority.

Now Carlyle is expandng and has agreed to acquire 100% of Apollo Aviation Group (AAG), which has grown to become a leading multi-strategy institutional investment manager currently investing SASOF IV, our fourth insti-tutional real assets fund, which focuses on mid-life, in-pro-duction commercial aircraft.

Apollo Aviation Group had assets under management of approximately $5.1 billion as of March 31, 2018, includ-ing 243 aircraft owned, managed or in its future fleet. AAG will become a new business line, operating as Carlyle Avia-tion Partners Ltd., within Carlyle’s Global Credit Segment. Closing for the acquisition is expected no later than Janu-ary 31, 2019.

Established in 2002, AAG raises closed-end funds from limited partners to provide financing solutions to the com-mercial aviation sector. This acquisition will allow Car-lyle’s Global Credit platform to offer long-duration expo-sure to commercial aviation markets through a variety of credit, equity and structured finance instruments.

Carlyle Co-CEO Kewsong Lee said, “This corporate ac-quisition expands Carlyle’s Global Credit capabilities, par-ticularly in the growing asset-based credit market. AAG is a scalable platform with strong growth prospects given its 16-year history and track record of performance.”

AAG has ties with Irelandia through leasing aircraft to VivaAerobus which began its US entry into the U.S. in Oc-tober at Terminal One, JFK Airport.

Irelandia Aviation is the world’s premier low cost car-rier (LCC) developer with Declan Ryan having been in-volved with establishing or managing six low-cost carriers over the past 30 years, including Ryanair, VivaAerobus, Ti-ger Airways of Singapore, and Allegiant Air in the US.

According to anIrelandia statement they shape the LCC opportunity, invest behind it and work intensively with management, partners and investors to make it a success. Through the Ryan family, they pioneered the LCC model in Europe and are now replicating that model around the world. with VivaAerobus in Mexico and VivaColombia in Colombia. Grupo IAMSA has acquired the total of Ire-landia Aviation’s stake in Grupo Viva Aerobus, and wholly owns VivaAerobus.

NEW DISRUPTOR FOR AIR CARGO

BY JEFF YAPALATERWFS founder Olivier Bijaoui and Consoli-

dated Aviation Services (CAS) founder Simon Caviezel are set to disrupt the ground han-dling market with their new company, Trans-border Aviation Holdings (TAH). Bijaoui said at TIACA’s Air Cargo Forum in Toronto, “The big new challenge for air cargo is e-commerce. It will revolutionize the cargo environment and we will need to be able to cope with those changes; we are going to have to be creative and start a new style of handling” which will incorporate e-commerce.

Bijaoui recently bought a stake in Paris CDG-based France Cargo Holdings, which has 12 domestic locations, as well as Belgium Air-port Services in Liege, both of which will form part of the network and are part of their whole strategy of acquisitions and forming alliances.

Bijaoui commented that “People always try to be smart in creating complex answers to sim-ple questions, but it’s not complex. The most se-rious challenge will be how to organise it – and how to price e-commerce handling. The price will also be a real challenge. You can’t just get 8 cents a kg for this, it doesn’t work. Before, life was simple: general and express. Now, for the same money as general cargo you have to make it fast too.”

Pricing is indeed an issue especially here in NY and specifically at JFK Airport. Recent minimum wage increases, shortage of work-ers, port fees, real estate and compliance costs add to the operational overhead and already have ground handlers here concerned about profitability.

However as with any start-up, there is a re-liance on financial partners institutions and personal investment as well as excitement with new ventures that starting this venture may be easier but may not be a long term suc-cess. Couple that with the investment by the Cerberus Group with deep pockets in purchas-ing WFS, one of the partners old companies

and you have a big competitor to contend with.

Despite that, Bijaoui said “The opportuni-

ties are there. We know enough people to do cargo handling, and people will join us and that

by the end of 2019, we will have a respect-able network,” said Bijaoui.

“We want to cover the major gateways – but if you look at what’s happening in Europe, freighters are moving away from the big hubs over things like congestion.

Does this mean his network will focus on secondary cities ripe for freighter growth?

When asked about his old company WFS he said, “a bit funny to go head to head with WFS, but it’s part of life”.

“You can’t reinvent the wheel,” said Bijaoui. “But you have to be good at what you do.”

The ground handling world looks forward to the next generation of ground handling by two veteran industry leaders.

NY City to Boston in 36 minutes? How is this possible?AIRPORT VOICE

Well, Transcend Air wants to get business travellers di-rectly to and from major cit-ies with a new flying taxi service. The Boston-based aviation company has fifteen prototypes for a six-seater aircraft that will get commut-ers from New York to Boston (US$280) one-way in 36 min-utes using its Vertical Take Off and Landing (VTOL) air-craft. The company boasts on its website “Vertical Take Off and Landing. Stroll to your flight from your office.”, how-ever this leaves a lot of ques-tions as to where one’s office

actually is. How many build-ings in Manhattan have a suitable pad on their rooftop or near by midtown. Notwith-standing, the company is al-ready taking reservations on its website for the future ser-vice.

The company states sus-tainability, meeting expand-ing travel demands without building airports, enhanced Safety. each aircraft with its own whole-aircraft parachute and aircraft will be FAA-cer-tified.

Their six-seater vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft flies like a jet but

takes off and lands like a he-licopter, meaning it can de-part from almost anywhere. The aircraft features a tilt-wing, fly-by-wire design sim-ilar to the CL-84, created by Canadair in the 1960s. Seats will be comparable in size to most commercial airlines but there’ll be no restrooms to save on space. They’ll have a range of 450 miles, with speeds up to 405 miles per hour – three times faster than a helicopter.

Service is anticipated to begin 2024. Transcend is sell-ing these aircraft to endusers as well.

Olivier Bijaoui embarks in creating a new ground han-dling company.


JetBlue celebrated it’s 10th annual Swing for Good Golf Classic tournament. Many of the top executives of JetBlue, Robin Hayes, Jo-anna Geraghty and Steve Priest were swinging for good with hundreds of oth-ers to help the airline raise money for its foundation as it has done for a decade. Said Robin Hayes, “ Youth, edu-cation and community are core pillars of our corporate responsibility platform. Our dedication to the communi-ties we serve goes beyond one day on the golf course. The funds raised will encourage service as well as STEM and aviation education for years to come.”

The event brought to-gether JetBlue crew mem-

bers and approximately 200 business partners totalling over 450 participants, pro-viding a great mix of fun, camaraderie and competi-tion at one of the country’s most renowned golf venues at Bethpage Sate Park, even the off limits Black course was opened for some golfing which was a treat for many players while raising funds for outstanding charities.

Since its inception in 2008, JetBlue’s Swing for Good ini-tiative has raised more than $6.1 million for a variety of youth and education focused charitable organizations. “At JetBlue, we believe inspiring the future generation of avia-tors starts with us. The funds provided to the JetBlue Foun-dation will truly be the dif-

ference in the lives of young men and women who want to make an impact on our in-dustry.” commented Joanna Geraghty, President JetBlue.

JETBLUE SWINGS FOR GOOD, AGAIN!

The JetBlue crew works the snack table at the JetBlue Swing for Good Golf event. Photos by Jeff Yapalater

The combined skill of Brock Solutions and crew from JetBlue make an excellent bucket shot for a chance to win 10,000 JetBlue points at Swing for Good Golf event.

JetBlue’s CEO Robin Hayes, President; COO Joanna Geraghty; EVP, CFO Steve Priest are in top form at their 10th annual JetBlue Swing for Good Golf Classic.

Summit Security Kaitlin Burden tries on for size the JetBlue spon-sored Viasat surfboard when in fact she was Golfing at the 10th Jet-blue Swing for Good Golf event.

The JetBlue working the logistics for the 10th Swing for Good Golf event include, Nick Meluso, Nicoletta Bumbac, Irma Arizmendi, Icema Gibbs, Kayla Carpenter, Tina Klaric.


resents the Terminal One Group (TOGA) at JFK Airport, for the se-lection of TOGA and its investors for the redevelopment of Terminals 1, 2 and part of 3. This approval for TOGA, which is comprised of air-lines Lufthansa, JAL, Korean Air and Air France, is a $7 billion dollar investment by the TOGA group and a consortium of investors in the ter-minal rebuild. Also selected for the south end terminal develoment was JetBlue, represented by CEO Robin Hayes and CFO Steve Priest, for a $3 billion terminal rebuild and ex-pansion investment. “Excitement” was the word used by both terminal executives after the announcement by Cotton and Governor Cuomo. According to one executive, this is a major step in the Governor’s Vi-sion Plan for the future of JFK. Ac-cording to Port, more is to come. An additional $3 billion will come from private investors and the Port all currently totaling $13 billion for the JFK transformation.

Community responseAirline executives and commu-

nity leaders lauded the announce-ment. Arthur Molins, Managing Director of TOGA, said, “We are ex-tremely grateful for the support of the Governor and Port Authority as we partner with them to return JFK Airport to world-class status. We look forward to bringing this vi-sion to reality.”

Robin Hayes, JetBlue Chief Ex-ecutive Officer said, “As New York’s Hometown Airline (TM), JetBlue has been doing its part to trans-form JFK Airport since our first flight 18 years ago. Building on the success of JetBlue’s award-winning JFK Terminal 5, we look forward to creating a more unified world-class airport experience across Termi-nals 5, 6 and 7 and achieving Gov-ernor Cuomo’s vision for a trans-formed experience at JFK.”

Congressman Gregory W. Meeks said, “Today’s announce-ment by Governor Cuomo is a wel-come development that speaks to his administration’s leadership. The transformation of JFK into a state-of-the-art international air-port for the 21st century is closer than we can imagine, and will be inclusive in ways that are crucial to the success of the project and the advancement of the community. This massive project will create regional job growth, especially in Southeast Queens and surround-ing communities, as well as new business ventures for qualified MWBEs.”

Queens Borough President Me-linda Katz said, “The $13 billion overhaul of John F. Kennedy will be instrumental in assuring con-tinued economic growth and devel-opment across Queens. A project of this magnitude will bring many opportunities to the community of Southeast Queens, as well as en-couraging additional investment from the state.”

These committed investments advance the Governor’s vision for a unified and interconnected airport system with best-in-class passen-ger amenities, centralized ground transportation options and vastly improved roadways that collec-tively will increase the airport’s capacity by at least 15 million pas-sengers a year. The overall plan in-cludes a central terminal for JFK with an RFI to go out asking for pro-posals on design and developments costs.

However, this is an initial an-nouncement of intention. Pub-lic details are scant as to the ex-act proposals and why the other contenders,from JFKIAT and Delta, were not considered as part of the scope of the proposal pack-age. According to Roel Huinink, JFKIAT’s chief executive, “the company looks forward to a contin-ued partnership” with the Port Au-thority.

However the loss of this business must be a difficult but hopefully the notification that a new centralized terminal that was unveiled at the announcement would be another opportunity for the JFKIAT, a Schi-pol company, and Delta to become more involved with the overall JFK redevelopment.

Congressman Meeks said, “This massive project will create regional job growth, especially in Southeast

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The Columbia Associa-tion of U.S. Customs & Af-filiated Federal Agencies celebrated its 22nd Annual Italian Heritage Day Lun-cheon Celebration honor-ing Patrick Orender, Assis-tant Port Director, Tactical Trade, Dulles International Airport. CBP; Debbie Carri-ero, Branch Chief, Office of Trade, CBP; and Joe Clabby, President JFK Chamber of Commerce.

The guests were honored for their contributions to their organizations. Oh hand were parents and brother of Patrick Orender, and Kim Clabby, Joe’s daughter.

Friends and business as-sociates to lend to the atmo-sphere of camaraderie.

And of course, adding to the celebration was great Italian food, traditional Ital-ian party music, dancing and gelato at Russos on the Bay.

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Photos by Jeff Yapalater

Columbia Association members enjoy the luncheon, top l/r Marie & Joe Federico, Margie Gallo, Phil Mad-dalena & Lou Carducci, bottom l/r Sam Amer, Colleen Piccone, Pete Quaglia, Frank Russo.

Honoree Deborah Corriero, (second from right) having some fun at the Columbia Association of U.S. Customs honoring her for the many years at the CBP agency.


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Delta goes AirbusDelta revealed it latest

aircraft. It chose the Airbus A220-100, originally branded as the “Bombardier C Se-ries”, the smallest jetliner in Airbus’ in-production prod-uct line to begin flights from LaGuardia inthenear future. The A220-100 was built from the ground up to serve the 100-135 seat market with un-beatable efficiency and com-fort. With broad seats, plenty of overhead storage space and large windows, it’s a single-aisle aircraft that feels like a widebody jet. It is set to fly the aircraft on its route between New York LaGuardia and Boston, January 2019. Delta will become the first U.S. car-rier to operate the A220.

Norwegian tops BANorwegian became the

largest non-US based airline operating trans Atlantic ser-vices to the New York area, based on passenger numbers and beating out British Air-ways. The airline handled 1,670,000 international pas-sengers to/from three of New York region airports, accord-ing to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s most recent traffic report. The next largest carrier, British Airways, handled 1,630,000 passengers.

At the same time Norwe-gian announced the intention of cutting service to Belfast in face of increased taxes to NY. According to one spokesper-son, the additional tax would have made the flight too ex-pensive compared to the low cost now. But on a similar tax note, Norway’s government plans to increase the tax on flights to destinations out-side Europe and cut them for

flights within the region as part of broader plans to use taxation to combat climate change. This all seems quite vexing.

Lion AirlinesThe search for the fuse-

lage and recovery of bod-ies from the Lion Air crash in the ocean has caused grief and inquiry into what went wrong. The aircraft, the brand new, advanced 737Max , unexpectedly went off course after just thirteen minutes after take-off appar-ently having some erratic be-havior before crashing. Lion air spent 22 billion on a very age 737 order from Boeing in 2011, and this mishap follows an earlier recall. Concerns about an engine manufac-turing issue last year tempo-rarily grounded the 737Max fleet. But Boeing resolved the issue. Now Boeing is provid-ing assistance with authori-ties in determining the cause of the crash.

Viva Mexico CityVivaAerobus began ser-

vice from Mexico City to JFK Airport, Terminal One. This low cost airline expands to JFK from currently serving Newark.

The brightly colored air-craft company was origi-nally founded ]by Irelandia which is a low cost LLC orig-inator. But was sold off to a Mexican transportation company recently.

WOW done T1Confusing. Recent an-

nouncement that WOW will drop JFK for flights to Rekivik after Oct. So the new service announced to TelAviv from JFK seems

at odds with the airlines changes at JFK. WOW says service to Tel Aviv’s Ben Gu-rion Airport will start June 10, 2019 and be offered four times each week from New York, Boston, Washington D.C., Baltimore, Detroit, Chi-cago, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

As always with the air-line’s promotions, a return flight must be booked to re-ceive the $199 one-way flight price.

“WOW air is excited to bring back its seasonal ser-vice to the beautiful city of Tel Aviv,” Skuli Mogensen, CEO and Founder of WOW air, said in a news release.

Kenya Airlines(KQ) to America

KQ began service to Ter-minal 4, JFKIAT JFK Air-port on October 29th.

The company said a brand-new Airbus A350-900 PAL’s historic flight when it departs as PR126 from Manila’s Ninoy Aquino International Airport for a 16-hour non-stop jour-ney across the North Polar regions, to land at New York’s John F. Kennedy Interna-tional Airport. Kenya has also contracted with the FAA will which will teach Flight Safety Inspector courses at the East African School of Aviation (EASA) in Nairobi

First to Fly A350sBoth Qatar and Philippines

Airlines are vying for the dis-tinction to fly the first Airbus A350 into JFK Airport.

Qatar arrived at JFK showing off its new Air-bus A350-1000, the first of its kind operating in the United States. This plane has the lowest twin-engine

noise level of any aircraft, advanced air conditioning technology and full LED mood lighting.

The A350-1000 also fea-tures the airline’s ‘Qsuite’ business class seat, which of-fers the industry’s first-ever double bed in Business Class, as well as privacy panels that stow away, allowing passen-gers in adjoining seats to cre-ate their own private space, offering an unmatched, cus-tomized experience.

PAL, Philippine Airlines began non-stop service from Manila to Terminal One, JFK as the Longest non-stop in flight to the US on the new A350-900 aircraft. PAL Presi-dent and COO Jaime J. Bau-tista said: “We look forward with eager anticipation, as we prepare to fly almost halfway around the world on the lon-gest route ever to be served by

a Philippine carrier. What’s in store for travelers is a jour-ney unparalleled – an ultra-comfortable flight on one of the world’s most advanced commercial airplanes.” Starting December 6, PAL will start serving the MNL-NYC route five times weekly. Departure from New York re-mains at 1:45 a.m.

Nigeria Air grounded

The previously an-nounced service from Lagos, Nigeria to the USA has been suspended.

The new airline and ser-vice was announced at Farn-sworkth Show In July, but later the Nigerian Federal Government announced sus-pension of the planned na-tional carrier. The Minister of State for Aviation, Hadi Siriki, stated that the suspen-sion was a tough decision.

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Delta goes AirbusDelta revealed it latest

aircraft. It chose the Airbus A220-100, originally branded as the “Bombardier C Se-ries”, the smallest jetliner in Airbus’ in-production prod-uct line to begin flights from LaGuardia inthenear future. The A220-100 was built from the ground up to serve the 100-135 seat market with un-beatable efficiency and com-fort. With broad seats, plenty of overhead storage space and large windows, it’s a single-aisle aircraft that feels like a widebody jet. It is set to fly the aircraft on its route between New York LaGuardia and Boston, January 2019. Delta will become the first U.S. car-rier to operate the A220.

Norwegian tops BANorwegian became the

largest non-US based airline operating trans Atlantic ser-vices to the New York area, based on passenger numbers and beating out British Air-ways. The airline handled 1,670,000 international pas-sengers to/from three of New York region airports, accord-ing to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s most recent traffic report. The next largest carrier, British Airways, handled 1,630,000 passengers.

At the same time Norwe-gian announced the intention of cutting service to Belfast in face of increased taxes to NY. According to one spokesper-son, the additional tax would have made the flight too ex-pensive compared to the low cost now. But on a similar tax note, Norway’s government plans to increase the tax on flights to destinations out-side Europe and cut them for

flights within the region as part of broader plans to use taxation to combat climate change. This all seems quite vexing.

Lion AirlinesThe search for the fuse-

lage and recovery of bod-ies from the Lion Air crash in the ocean has caused grief and inquiry into what went wrong. The aircraft, the brand new, advanced 737Max , unexpectedly went off course after just thirteen minutes after take-off appar-ently having some erratic be-havior before crashing. Lion air spent 22 billion on a very age 737 order from Boeing in 2011, and this mishap follows an earlier recall. Concerns about an engine manufac-turing issue last year tempo-rarily grounded the 737Max fleet. But Boeing resolved the issue. Now Boeing is provid-ing assistance with authori-ties in determining the cause of the crash.

Viva Mexico CityVivaAerobus began ser-

vice from Mexico City to JFK Airport, Terminal One. This low cost airline expands to JFK from currently serving Newark.

The brightly colored air-craft company was origi-nally founded ]by Irelandia which is a low cost LLC orig-inator. But was sold off to a Mexican transportation company recently.

WOW done T1Confusing. Recent an-

nouncement that WOW will drop JFK for flights to Rekivik after Oct. So the new service announced to TelAviv from JFK seems

at odds with the airlines changes at JFK. WOW says service to Tel Aviv’s Ben Gu-rion Airport will start June 10, 2019 and be offered four times each week from New York, Boston, Washington D.C., Baltimore, Detroit, Chi-cago, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

As always with the air-line’s promotions, a return flight must be booked to re-ceive the $199 one-way flight price.

“WOW air is excited to bring back its seasonal ser-vice to the beautiful city of Tel Aviv,” Skuli Mogensen, CEO and Founder of WOW air, said in a news release.

Kenya Airlines(KQ) to America

KQ began service to Ter-minal 4, JFKIAT JFK Air-port on October 29th.

The company said a brand-new Airbus A350-900 PAL’s historic flight when it departs as PR126 from Manila’s Ninoy Aquino International Airport for a 16-hour non-stop jour-ney across the North Polar regions, to land at New York’s John F. Kennedy Interna-tional Airport. Kenya has also contracted with the FAA will which will teach Flight Safety Inspector courses at the East African School of Aviation (EASA) in Nairobi

First to Fly A350sBoth Qatar and Philippines

Airlines are vying for the dis-tinction to fly the first Airbus A350 into JFK Airport.

Qatar arrived at JFK showing off its new Air-bus A350-1000, the first of its kind operating in the United States. This plane has the lowest twin-engine

noise level of any aircraft, advanced air conditioning technology and full LED mood lighting.

The A350-1000 also fea-tures the airline’s ‘Qsuite’ business class seat, which of-fers the industry’s first-ever double bed in Business Class, as well as privacy panels that stow away, allowing passen-gers in adjoining seats to cre-ate their own private space, offering an unmatched, cus-tomized experience.

PAL, Philippine Airlines began non-stop service from Manila to Terminal One, JFK as the Longest non-stop in flight to the US on the new A350-900 aircraft. PAL Presi-dent and COO Jaime J. Bau-tista said: “We look forward with eager anticipation, as we prepare to fly almost halfway around the world on the lon-gest route ever to be served by

a Philippine carrier. What’s in store for travelers is a jour-ney unparalleled – an ultra-comfortable flight on one of the world’s most advanced commercial airplanes.” Starting December 6, PAL will start serving the MNL-NYC route five times weekly. Departure from New York re-mains at 1:45 a.m.

Nigeria Air grounded

The previously an-nounced service from Lagos, Nigeria to the USA has been suspended.

The new airline and ser-vice was announced at Farn-sworkth Show In July, but later the Nigerian Federal Government announced sus-pension of the planned na-tional carrier. The Minister of State for Aviation, Hadi Siriki, stated that the suspen-sion was a tough decision.

Welcome to JFK Airport Qatar A350-1000. Newest Airbus aircraft with scheduled daily service to Doha. Qatar is the world’s first operator to use this aircraft and JFK passengers will benefit from this technologically advanced and comfortable plane. Photos by Jeff Yapalater

One of the artistic tail designs on Norwegian jet at JFK Airport.

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Hooray, Port airports have WIFI AIRPORT VOICE

In a major improvement from past practice, Port Authority air-ports will now provide passengers with free, unlimited access to high-speed Wi-Fi. The airports newly providing access to free high speed Wi-Fi are John F. Kennedy Interna-tional (JFK), Newark Liberty Inter-national (EWR), LaGuardia (LGA) and New York Stewart International (SWF) airports. “The Port Authority has a goal to develop world-class air-ports and operate them at the high-est level of service and quality,” said Port Authority Chairman Kevin O’Toole. “With trending passenger growth across our airports, connect-ing to a free Wi-Fi network is not just an enhancement in customer ser-vice, but also an improvement in ef-ficiency for our business and leisure travelers.”

”Whether you’re looking to stream Netflix, conduct an impor-tant video conference call, or sim-ply download a large file before you board your flight, our testing consis-tently showed speeds that will com-fortably allow for that,” said Robert Galvin, the Port Authority’s Chief Technology Officer.

“As we enter the peak holiday travel season, in which we antici-pate 7.5 million passengers to pass

through our airports, it’s imperative that they have easy access to fast, high-speed Wi-Fi that will elevate their airport experience,” said Port Authority Aviation Director Huntley Lawrence.

Passengers will see signage at the airports, throughout the terminals and in the parking garages, describ-ing an easy two-step process to access the airport’s Wi-Fi quickly and seam-lessly. Customers select the wireless network at their respective airport, such as “_Free LGA Wi-Fi,” and then hit “Select Free Unlimited Wi-Fi.” A short ad may play before the four-hour browsing session begins.

Port Authority customer surveys have continually put free high-speed Wi-Fi high on the lists of what pas-sengers seek in terms of improved airport amenities, and it comes at a time of record-setting passenger numbers. In the first six months of 2018, more than 66.5 million flyers passed through Port Authority air-ports, the highest six-month period on record and a 4.3 percent increase over the same period in 2017

Customer support is available for the Wi-Fi access 24/7 at 1-800-880-4117 or online by visiting FreeLGAwifi.com, FreeJFKwifi.com, FreeEWRwifi.com or FreeSWFwifi.com.

JFKIAT welcomed the inaugural flight of Kenya Airways from Nairobi to New York City, making it the first airline in East Africa to offer a non-stop direct flight from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Kenya to John F. Kennedy International Airport.

“We are excited to welcome Kenya Airways – one of the leading African car-riers - to Terminal 4,” said Roel Huinink, President and CEO of JFKIAT. “As New York City’s premiere gateway, this new flight route will provide passengers with a fast connection between New York to East Africa, while stimulating eco-nomic growth and tourism in both countries.”

Captain Irene Koki Mutungi, the first African female pilot certified as a Cap-tain of a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, was the lead pilot on this flight.

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The CIO Bulletin, a pre-mier news resource for infor-mation serving the business and technology industries, has recognized Global Elite Group as one of their Top Ten Best Security Compa-nies for 2018. The criteria for the award included areview of Global Elite’s innovative and forward-thinking ap-proach by its security execu-tives and field staff that have resulted in creating leading edge technology used in first response settings and for tracking security threats im-pacting clients. An internal review panel at CIO Bulletin-performed the due diligence. The criteria for the award included the merits of the ex-ecutivesand their team, prod-ucts and services offered in the marketplace, company size and industries served.

“On behalf of our com-pany, I am honored to accept this award alongside the pro-fessionals who work tire-lessly every day to provide exceptional service. This is a wonderful way to recog-nize all those who have made

their careers here at Global Elite Group impacting the industry with their vision of keeping all those in aviation safe and secure,” comments William McGuire, President and CEO, Global Elite Group, Garden City, New York.

In addition to the aviation security services Global Elite Group provides, the company was acknowledged for the development of its advanced technology used in the avia-tion security setting. Secur-Swipe and G-Box-CPM Unit are unique to the airline se-curity market. SecurSwipe is a proprietary and sophis-ticated real-time tracking system that records access to facilities and aircraft that do not have fixed access control systems. G-Box-CPM Unit was developed to support the airlines with advanced tech-nology solutions that cap-tures and forwards informa-tion such as individuals on the no-fly list, alert and pre-vent departure issues, fraud-ulent activities and any other type of information to re-strict access to individuals. These real solutions are be-ing used at airports as a part of an overall comprehensive security solution.

JFK Chamber of Com-merce honored Joanna Ger-aghty, President and COO Jet-Blue at the October luncheon. Members of the airport and business community listened to a question and answer pe-riod hosted by Jim Groark of Cathay Pacific and Board member of the Chamber. Ger-aghty was straightforward with answers on JetBlue fiscal health, competition, social re-sponsibility and future plans for the airline. She said that

she welcomed competition and “disruption” within the indus-try because it keeps everyone being competitive. One person asked about JetBlue begin-ning TransAtlantic service. Geraghty was not able to state definitively this would hap-pen and again referred to good “disruption”. Geraghty spoke at this luncheon just days be-fore The Port Authority an-nounced its acceptance of in-vestment by JetBlue as part of a major redevelopment at JFK

Airport. now in it’s infant stages of planning. JetBlue will develop the Southern end of the airport encompassing terminals areas, 5, 6 & 7, while Terminal One Group will de-velop Terminals 1,2 and 3.

The JFK Airport Chamber of Commerce holds quarterly luncjeons and a variety of so-cial andnewtworking events to keep the business commu-nity interacting for the over-all good of airport business growth.

Top leaders from JFK Airport, Phil Jensen, Worldwide Flight Services, Ajay Dhawan, Station Manager KLM, and Jim Groark, Regional Manager for Cathay Pacific met with honoree Joanna Geraghty at the JFK Chamber of Commerce Luncheon. Photo by Jeff Yapalater

JFK Chamber lunches with JetBlue



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The TWA Hotel that is being built at JFK Airport finally received the large fuselage, the final branding components, completing the vintage Lockheed Constellation, nick-named “Connie” whose tail section had ar-rived 8 days earlier. The two large pieces had been trucked from Maine and crowds along the way waved and cheered as the vintage pieces rolled by enroute to JFK Airport.

The “Connie” was in two major sections, the fuselage and tail assem-bly. They were both getting closer to their final destination at JFK Air-port but not without a little drama first. The two “wide load” flatbed trucks carrying the two large pieces of fuselage and tail wing section made an unscheduled stop twice; once by a flat tire and another by the Throggs Neck Bridge where they re-mained for days until the tail assem-

bly was moved to JFK Airport while the fuselage remained in the Bronx until complicated transportation ap-provals had been issued. Now the two large pieces of the restored plane are enjoying the view of the Jamaica Bay as the TWA Hotel continues to-wards completion.

The TWA Hotel is using this res-toration of an actual Constellation, serial number N8083H, as the cen-terpiece of the new TWA Hotel cur-rently under construction at JFK Airport next to the JetBlue terminal. The transported aircraft parts will be reassembled on site at the TWA Hotel as a vintage, unique lounge for the TWA Hotel. Forecasted to be open during the second quarter of 2019, the hotel will bring back the look and feel of the early glory days of flying at JFK. 500 rooms will be opened with easy access to all termi-nals on the JFK Airtrain.

‘Connie” home at JFK with view of Jamaica Bay

TSA talks to Kaamco CargoBY JEFF YAPALATER

The October Kaamco Cargo Com-mittee meeting was lead by Chairman Brian Cooley who wel-comed the TSA to the group for an unclassi-fied report. Topics of the meeting included reports from JFK Se-curity, status of the USPS for holiday mail, new guard post pro-cedures, upcoming cargo forum, discus-sion on new fees for security companies, PAPD update and general announcements.

TSAThe TSA presentation focused on

the insider threats to the airport with unclassified material at this meeting. According to Jim Fitzgerald, compli-ance for TSA, this presentation was an example of working more closely with the airlines. Fitzgerald said as part of an enforcement policy TSA “wants a buy-in from airlines to go out with us to see how we test and what we do. It goes a long way, “ he said. There was conversation about TSA looking more closely at mail. The newly passed FAA Reauthorization bill has a provision for third party canine companies. Ac-cording to TSA, they will regulate but other companies will do the actual certifying of canine companies that will be allowed to sell their services to airport companies such as inspecting cargo.

Holiday mailIt was reported that the United

States postal service is ready for the holiday mail rush and that Building 197 of 20,000sf of operating space will be open as of November 1 to handle the overflows which is expected to triple normal loads. Wally Luber said there will be an additional 150-175 work-ers to support the holiday influx of all types of mail.

JFK securityJFK Security informed the com-

mittee that the new “ Info Cop” sys-tem would begin deployment at guard posts throughout JFK Airport. Used in Newark and LaGuardia, this sys-tem is a simple way to identify persons entering the guard posts that may have a warrant outstanding or on a se-curity risk list. Persons under escort will need to scan their drivers license and within seconds will either see a green or red light displayed. If red, do not pass go; The PAPD will be called for a secondary vetting.

Cargo Congestion ForumPeter Debenigno of Mobile Air men-

tioned that the Air Forwarders Asso-ciation is sponsoring a town hall meet-ing with a panel on Nov. 13, 7:30pm in Building 14, in the cafeteria. Topics will include congestion and a building

site proposal. He said it will be an informal meeting about dealing with congestion in the cargo areas and hoped for workable solutions after the forum.

Rising airport fees

The topic of rising fees and taxes on se-curity companies was discussed. It was felt that the 5% fee to the Port Authority, the ad-ditional sales tax, the

looming minimum hourly salary in-creases, costs associated with the sex-ual harassment law going into effect in December along with an advance security payment to be placed in a holding account was deemed exces-sive by security companies at the air-port. According to one security execu-tive these additional fees are going to make it make it very difficult to pass along to the companies seeking secu-rity. He said that the airlines would face similar pressures and possibly re-duce the number of security staffing and thereby reducing the safety at the airport. It was said that the Port Au-thority has not listened to the needs and concerns of the security supply companies which is having a negative impact on the ability to do business at the airport.

Police UpdatesThe PAPD representative reported

that the upcoming holiday season is vulnerable to a higher level of thefts during the Thanksgiving and Christ-mas holiday weeks. Traditionally a higher theft of high end merchandise, weapons detection and other insider irregularities occur during these two weeks. He said that a higher number than normal of employees working at the airport take off these days and thieves wait for this time to strike.

more on cargo. There was also men-tion of possible irregularities with surrounding check cashing locations with suspected fraud in this area. It was suggested to inform employees of this situation.

Rescue dogsThe Ark animal center reported

that there is still a high incidence of service dog “nannies” with rescue dogs coming into JFK without proper papers of ownership and compliance. Many are not actual owners of these dogs resulting in immediate return-ing of these animals to their country of origin. Chamber of Commerce

Joe Clabby of the Chamber of Com-merce said that there will be a security outreach program for security compa-nies sometime in December. He also mentioned that the Chamber of Com-merce will have a lawyer familiar with the next sexual harassment laws that will speak at an upcoming Cham-ber seminar..

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jobs, empower minorities and get a better deal for Queen’s residents as a result.

Most recently he has been involved with the JFK Airport Redevelopment since the Gov-ernor introduced this Vision plan in 2017.

Over the past couple of months the process of rede-velopment has moved forward with the Port Authority (Port) holding three community fo-rums sharing their overall plans concerning the infra-structure and construction to come. Port made it very clear that whatever construction takes place that there will be a significant increase in minor-ity women and minority busi-ness participation to the tune of 30% of the awarded monies.

As part of the roll-out of the plan, Port established the Com-munity Advisory (Council) as well as a community center where representatives of the governor’s plan can meet with members of the community for the exchange of ideas and con-siderations of which a commu-nity benefit agreement is part.

Congressman Meeks and Borough President Melinda Katz are co-chairs of this Coun-cil which is made up of 44 mem-bers representing a large num-ber of constituents, community leaders and elected officials.

Here are responses from the Congressman on the JFK Air-port redevelopment, the Coun-cil, Community Benefit Agree-ment, rising operating costs and community involvement.

Q-What is your thought on the JFK Redevelopment plan?

A-I think it is important for the state, city and Queens to have an airport that can com-pete with the other airports in the world. It can benefit the community with opportunities. This is great for infrastructure, road improvement employment opportunity and careers.

Q- What is your position of the Governor’s mandate for a 30% set-aside in minority

A- It is a 30% goal for minor-ity. That’s the floor. There may be a need for individual busi-nesses that are deserving of more and this should not be a ceiling. It is good to go beyond that for minority women and local owned businesses.

Q- Why was the first Com-munity Advisory Council meet-ing closed to the public?

A-It was an organizational meeting. The only reason it was not open to the public and media is that we were meeting to set ground rule since it was the first time everyone ( all 44 members) were meeting collec-tively. Every subsequent meet-ing will be public open to the press. Want to make sure The Community Advisory Coun-cil meetings will be open and transparent to the public and both are invited to attend and participate.

Q-When is the first public meeting scheduled?

A-There is no exact date but somewhere in the month of De-cember.

Q-What specific discussions were held during the meeting?

A-Queens Borough Presi-dent Melinda Katz and myself are co-chairs of the Council. We had discussions with folks to see what the expectations of the committee are and make sure they understood what the project is because some were not at the Governor’s an-nouncement. Everyone needed to get a grasp of what was in the announcement that the Governor made, what propos-als the Governor included so that everyone was on the same page with the information.

The fact was that there was ample opportunity to ask questions of Port, investors and other community leaders. There were no issues except how to organize ourselves, the opportunity to set up commit-tees and subcommittees and to get the work done.

Q-How will future meetings be conducted?

A-All 44 members are wel-come to attend but within the 44 ,the main group, there are subcommittees and I am sure some individuals have an in-terest in one subcommittee

more than another. We expect robust participation and atten-dance because all are very in-terested what is taking place at JFK Airport.

Q- Will you attend all the meetngs?

A-I’ll be at as many as I pos-sible can but my congressional calendar may sometimes get in the way.

Q-Yes, we need you in Wash-ington to protect our interests.

A-A good hearted laugh.Q-State Senator Sanders put

out Community Benefit Agree-ment (CBA) proposal. How does this impact the Council?

A-What’s going to take place is that various groups on the council have proposals and they all want to present. We will have an exchange of proposals from everyone, and topics for discussion. We will see what we can come up with that is agreeable by the com-munity and Port Authrority and work together. The idea is to put in writing and discuss with the committee and see if we can come up with a consen-sus. But what I want to do is not follow anything set in the past. I want to set a high stan-dard, after looking at a number of other CBA’s that looked good on paper but outcome was not as good as it should have been.

I think by having the kind of participation we are having with the Port, the two devel-opers and the community we can set a standard that can’t be matched by others. We are bringing in a professional fa-cilitator to run the meetings

and to make sure the meetings flow smoothly.

Q- Do you have a wish list for a CBA?

A-I don’t want to get into my wish list. Our goal is to bring everyone together and make sure we have that power of con-versation.

I am excited by the founda-tion that has been laid.

Q- Have there been any con-versations that you are of about adding a new runway to JFK?

A-No. There have not been conversations about new run-ways at JFK. The Port plans in-crease passengers capacity by adding gates and the airlines have bigger planes to increase flow without more runways. We will do repairs to accommodate newer planes and add safety.

Q-There are rising costs to doing business at JFK. What is your take on this?

A-That’s why we have the JFK Chamber of Commerce on the Council. I am sure these is-sues at the airport will be dis-cussed at the meetings.

Q-Are you familiar with KAAMCO at JFK airport.

A- No I am not. What is it.Q-It is the JFK airport air-

line managers association that holds monthly meetings with the airlines, Port Authority, airport agencies and business partners.

A- This is very interesting. Please send me the informa-tion. Please let us know of the next one.

Q-Thank you for your time Congressman

A-You are very welcome.

Congressman Meeks making a strong statement at a recent event.

Conversation with Congressman MeeksContinued from page 1

The Port Authority sub-mitted a series of analyses to the FAA, which will oversee the AirTrain’s environmen-tal review. A Better Way to LGA believes that AirTrain LGA is a critical compo-nent of the overall redevel-opment efforts taking place at LaGuardia. The next step is an Environmental Im-pact Statement (EIS) on the AirTrain. A Better Way to LGA calls on the EIS pro-cess to be completed by Q4 of 2019.

LaGuardia is the only ma-jor East Coast airport without a direct rail connection, and this has negative repercus-sions for surrounding neigh-borhoods and the City writ large. Traffic from the Grand Central Parkway and adja-

cent roads has inundated the entire community and crip-pled its ability to get around.

AirTrain LGA will con-nect with public transporta-tion at Willets Point, reliev-ing congestion at LaGuardia. Willets Point Station will be modernized, made ac-cessible to people with dis-abilities, and designed for travelers with luggage, pro-viding a seamless transition to AirTrain LGA Passengers traveling from Manhattan would reach Willets Point in 16 minutes on the Long Is-land Railroad, with direct, non-stop service from Penn Station (as well as Grand Central Station pending the completion of the East Side Access project). From Willets Point, it’s just six minutes to the airport. Alternatively,

passengers can take the 7 Line Subway and transfer at Willets Point.

“The proposed AirTrain LGA would make the dream of a 30-minute ride from Mid-town Manhattan to LaGuar-dia a reality,” said Angela Pinsky, Executive Director of the Association for a Bet-ter New York.

Now that legislation has passed by the New York State Legislature and been signed into law by Governor Cuomo,

Specifically, A Better Way to LGA calls on the EIS, in addition to evaluating im-pacts like noise and traffic mitigation, to include robust engagement with relevant community stakeholders, and evaluate the following areas:

LGA Community backs new AirtrainContinued from page 11

Queens and surrounding communities, as well as new business ventures for quali-fied MWBEs.”

Next stepsThe Next steps include

preliminary environmental studies, subcontractor selec-tions, MWBE initiatives, and architectural designs need to be reviewed, and signed off by the Port Authority.

Actual work is expected to begin sometime in 2021 and the work at LaGuardia reaches its completion if all goes according to schedule.

This announcement came just days after the Port Authority approved a mini-mum wage increase for all airport workers. So, the tim-ing to raise wages and the

announcement of the proj-ect selection work together to bring a sense of pur-pose and initiative for both worker and investor as the beginning of development can been seen in the coming months.

Included in the Port pub-lic part of the JFK redevel-opment includes the repair and expansion of the Van Wyck Expressway from Main Street to the Airport, making infrastructure a big part of the growth. Prog-ress with the NYC DOT is al-ready in the works.

With 66 million passen-gers passing through JFK International Airport in 2018, the improvements at one of the world’s greatest airports will be welcomed by many.

New Reimagined JFK AirportContinued from page 18


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