By Liying Gu During today’s Finance Committee meeting, Ira Smelkinson of Morgan Stanley and Jason Simmons of Piper Jaffray provided an overview of the financial, municipal bond and airport bond markets. According to Smelkinson, equity market continues to exhibit high volatility and U.S. Treasury continues to be safe heaven not withstanding ratings downgrade of U.S. [...]
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Double Dip or Soft Landing
Posted by Tom Smith on October 17, 2011
http://www.aci-na.org/blog/2011/10/17/double-dip-or-soft-landing/
Breaking Down Airport Silos
By Katherine Preston “Expand your horizons” “A meeting of the minds” “You learn something new every day” “Change is good” “Many hands make light work” … I could go on but I think you get the point. These familiar idioms are just some that come to mind when describing the joint sessions of the Operations [...]
Posted by Tom Smith on October 17, 2011
http://www.aci-na.org/blog/2011/10/17/breaking-down-airport-silos/
Commissioners Gather in the Golden State
By Paul Eubanks Airport Board Members and Commissioners are thrilled to be in southern California for the 20th ACI-NA Annual Conference and Exhibition. To kick the weekend off nearly 170 Commissioners and ACI-NA Board Members gathered yesterday evening, at the University Club in downtown San Diego, for the annual Board and Commissioners Diner. A big [...]
Posted by Tom Smith on October 16, 2011
http://www.aci-na.org/blog/2011/10/16/commissioners-gather-in-the-golden-state/
ACRP Updates Its On-Going Research Efforts to Ops/Tech
By Chris Oswald Sunday’s Ops/Tech Pre-Conference Seminar got rolling with updates regarding the Airport Cooperative Research Program. ACRP staffer Marci Greenberger provided an overview of ongoing, recently completed, and new ACRP projects, highlighting the heavy emphasis of the 2012 program on airport operations and maintenance topics, many of which are of particular interest to the [...]
Posted by Tom Smith on October 16, 2011
http://www.aci-na.org/blog/2011/10/16/acrp-updates-its-on-going-research-efforts-to-opstech/
Ops/Tech Afternoon Sessions Focus On Information Sharing, Working Group Activities
By Chris Oswald Saturday afternoon’s ACI-NA’s Ops/Tech Committee sessions focused the recent and planned activities of the Committee’s Working Groups, as well as discussions of our Committee member’s recent project experiences and challenges. ACI-NA’s Chris Oswald and Channon Hanna provided updated the committee on ACI-NA recent staff activities including the extensive comments ACI-NA filed regarding [...]
Posted by Tom Smith on October 15, 2011
http://www.aci-na.org/blog/2011/10/15/opstech-afternoon-sessions-focus-on-information-sharing-working-group-activities/