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Tag Archives: airlines
Zombifying commercial airports
In 1995, Lansing, Michigan’s Capital Region International Airport (LAN) would proudly boast in local radio advertisements that is was served by eight airlines. In 1997, its passenger activity peaked at 720,365. A mere 20 years later that number has free-fallen … Continue reading
Posted in aerospace, air travel, airport planning, airports, aviation, branding, Bus transportation, cities, civics, commerce, deregulation, economic development, entrepreneurship, geography, government, history, infrastructure, land use, logistics, marketing, planning, spatial design, Statistics, tourism, Trade, transportation, Travel, Uncategorized, urban planning
Tagged airlines, airport planning, airports, aviation, cities, comemerce, infrastructure, land use, marketing, planning
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India’s busiest airports for 2013-14
Busiest airports in India by passenger traffic: April 2013–March 2014 Name City Passengers Indira Gandhi International Airport Delhi 36,990,987 Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport Mumbai 32,221,395 Chennai International Airport Chennai 12,896,055 Kempegowda International Airport Bangalore 12,868,830 Netaji Subhash … Continue reading
Posted in aerospace, air travel, airport planning, airports, Asia, aviation, commerce, economic development, geography, infrastructure, land use, logistics, planning, Statistics, tourism, transportation, Travel
Tagged airlines, airports, Asia, business, cities, geography, India, logistics, planning, tourism, transportation, travel
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Airside Americana – remember these airlines?
In these days of airline mergers, consolidations, and corporate takeovers, it can be hard to remember the days of multitudes of airline serving various parts of the nation. As I was growing up, very few airlines could be correctly deemed … Continue reading
Posted in aerospace, air travel, airport planning, airports, aviation, branding, consumerism, geography, historic preservation, history, logistics, tourism, Trade, transportation, Travel
Tagged aerospace, airlines, airports, aviation, cities, geography, history, tourism, transportation, travel
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When the node breaks…put logic back into logistics
I am writing everyone from a hotel room near the Denver and from my gate Denver International Airport. In case you didn’t see the update to the last post, my dream ride on the California Zephyr ended before it ever … Continue reading
Posted in Active transportation, air travel, airport planning, airports, aviation, Bus transportation, Canada, Cars, cities, commerce, Communications, Economy, environment, geography, history, infrastructure, land use, logistics, Maps, nature, North America, Passenger rail, planning, product design, rail, seasons, spatial design, tourism, transportation, Travel, weather
Tagged air travel, airlines, AMTRAK, auto, buses, cities, freight, geography, hub and spoke, hubs, logistics, maps, nodes, railroads, seasons, tourism, trains, transportation, travel, weather
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Ideas for Stapleton’s iconic control tower
On our way back from Boulder to Denver International Airport on Sunday morning, Brendan and I stopped by the Stapleton development in Denver to see the old Stapleton International Airport control tower. This handsome and historic structure is pretty much … Continue reading
Posted in adaptive reuse, Advocacy, aerospace, air travel, airport planning, airports, architecture, art, aviation, branding, cities, civics, commerce, Communications, culture, economic development, economic gardening, entertainment, entrepreneurship, geography, government, historic preservation, history, infrastructure, new urbanism, pictures, placemaking, planning, revitalization, skylines, spatial design, technology, third places, tourism, transportation, Travel, urban planning
Tagged aerospece, airlines, airports, aviation, Colorado, control towers, Denver, geography, history, land use, museums, planning, Stapleton International Airport, transportation, travel, urban planning
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World’s 25 busiest air travel “markets” in 2011
It is often heard that Atlanta’s Hartsfield International Airport is the busiest airport in the world. On an individual airport basis, that is correct. But when you calculate the total air passengers passing through each market (single airport or multiple-airport), … Continue reading
Posted in air travel, airports, Asia, China, cities, Communications, economic development, Europe, geography, infrastructure, land use, North America, placemaking, planning, South America, spatial design, States, Statistics, technology, tourism, transportation, Travel, UK, urban planning
Tagged air travel, airlines, airports, Amsterdam, Atlanta, Bangkok, Beijing, Chicago, cities, Dallas, Denver, Dubai, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Houston, Jakarta, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Miami, Moscow, New York City, Paris, San Francisco, Sao Paulo, Shanghai, Singapore, statistics, Tokyo, tourism, transportation, Washington
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Satellite airport “success” stories related to sprawl
In the past three-four decades urban sprawl has led to the rapid expansion of low density development across once pastoral landscapes, vastly increasing the area now occupied by the built environment. While, as urban planners, we are almost universally opposed to … Continue reading
Posted in advertising, air travel, airports, cities, climate change, Communications, consumerism, density, deregulation, economic development, economics, energy, entrepreneurship, geography, globalization, government, history, infrastructure, land use, placemaking, planning, politics, spatial design, sprawl, States, Statistics, technology, tourism, transportation, Travel, U.K., urban planning
Tagged air travel, airlines, airports, cities, development, economics, geography, land use, land use planning, spatial design, sprawl, transportation, urban planning
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Last flights out
Quite a hectic travel day yesterday (Sunday) as I attempted to return to Michigan early from visiting my son and daughter in law in Boston. Originally scheduled to fly home today (Monday), my airline, AirTran contacted me Saturday and suggested … Continue reading
Posted in air travel, airports, Cities, climate change, Communications, environment, geography, infrastructure, nature, North America, seasons, tourism, transportation, Travel
Tagged air travel, airlines, AitTran, Baltimore, Boston, Hurricane Sandy
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