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Title: Supporting Your Airport


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Supporting Your Airport
  • An NBAA Airports Handbook Presentation

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Airports Are Essential
  • Did You Know?
  • Only 550 U.S. airports are served by airlines,
    and this total is shrinking
  • General aviation provides rapid, on-demand
    transportation by
  • Utilizing a network of more than 5,000 smaller,
    public-use U.S. general aviation airports
  • Bringing travelers closer to their destination
    than large hub airports used by the big airlines

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Airports Are Valuable to Everyone
  • Your airport is also a significant economic
    engine, creating jobs and additional tax revenue
  • GA airports also serve as bases for
  • Emergency medical services
  • Agricultural operations, such as crop dusting
  • Federal, state and local law enforcement
  • Colleges and universities, such as Ohio State
    University and the University of North Carolina

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Every Airport Is Part of a Larger Network
  • Did You Know?
  • Most of the nations public-use airports have
    shorter runways and smaller facilities designed
    for GA aircraft operations, than commercial
    service airports do
  • In some rural areas of the U.S., GA airports are
    the only air transportation link to the rest of
    the country
  • In major metropolitan areas, some GA airports are
    designated as being reliever airports because
    they offer GA operators an alternative to
    operating at the congested hub airports
  • Closing a public-use GA airport weakens the
    entire national network of airports

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Economic Impact
  • Airports Are Economic Engines
  • An airports financial value includes, but is not
    limited to, the economic activity that occurs
    because of the airfield
  • The number of jobs attributed to the airport is
    greater than simply those positions based on the
    airport, and includes
  • Area hotels, restaurants and catering companies
  • Rental car companies, gas stations and parking
    facilities

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Economic Impact
  • Airports Are Economic Engines
  • Business travel has the greatest impact on the
    local economy
  • Thousands of business aircraft travelers arriving
    at GA airports daily spend money and conduct
    business in communities near the airport
  • Companies locate business aviation facilities
    near GA airports for rapid access to customers
    and markets, generating jobs and tax revenue for
    local communities
  • Business aviation often delivers point-to-point
    service where no airline service exists

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Economic Impact
  • Calculating the Value of Your Airport
  • Why do an economic impact study for your airport?
  • Airports are often threatened by local politics
  • Study results can help confirm that your GA
    airport is a valuable community asset
  • Having an economic study done ahead of time
    allows you to react quickly when your airport is
    questioned
  • Understanding an airports economic impact allows
    supporters to make a strong case in support of
    their airport, showing
  • The airport attracts outside dollars
  • The airport contributes economic benefits such as
    jobs, services and tax revenues

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Economic Impact
  • Case Study Teterboro, NJ
  • Northern New Jersey reliever airport across the
    river from New York City with over 200,000
    takeoffs and landings annually
  • 1,700 on-airport jobs and 15,000 more in the
    neighborhood
  • 1.8 billion in annual regional sales due to the
    airport
  • One third of the 400,000 local hotel rooms are
    sold to airport visitors

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Airport Access
  • Did You Know?
  • GA airports provide access, enabling business
    aviation operators to fly anywhere, anytime,
    saving companies time and money
  • Airport constraints (both existing and proposed)
    are a significant concern for operators in
    locations like Santa Monica, Van Nuys and
    Burbank, CA they include
  • Night curfews limits on total operations
    banning aircraft by size noise generation
    limits local construction of buildings and
    towers

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Airport Access
  • Useful Statistics
  • The top three U.S. airports ranked by air carrier
    operations are Atlanta Hartsfield International,
    Chicago OHare International and Dallas-Fort
    Worth International
  • The top three U.S. airports ranked by itinerant
    GA operations are Van Nuys, CA, Daytona Beach
    International, FL, and Kendall-Tamiami Executive,
    FL
  • Imagine if all this GA traffic suddenly began
    landing at the overburdened hubs, like Los
    Angeles International or Miami International?
  • Source FAA Air Traffic Activity Data System

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Airport Access
  • Noise Perception Is Everything
  • While subjective, human perception about aircraft
    noise has a powerful effect on how people
    perceive their local airport
  • Many anti-airport groups begin with a specific
    focus on noise

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Airport Access
  • Noise Perception Is Everything
  • The aviation community has responded to noise
    concerns with
  • New, quieter aircraft engines
  • Flight procedures/airspace changes that steer
    aircraft away from homes
  • Local government zoning of adjacent land can also
    change airport noise perceptions for the better

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Airport Access
How to Make Your Airport a Quieter Place
  • Work with airport and ATC officials to support
  • Encouraging pilots to use NBAA Noise Abatement
    Procedures, published online at
    www.nbaa.org/quietflying
  • Improving runway approach aids
  • Developing engine run-up areas for performing
    engine maintenance, and encouraging their use at
    times other than night/weekend hours
  • Installing noise-reducing blast fences
  • Remember, most people near an airport appreciate
    an airport operator who tries to help them solve
    a noise problem
  • See additional tips in the NBAA Airports Handbook

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Safety and Security
  • Did You Know?
  • Airport safety is very important to the community
  • Airport neighbors want to be sure the airport is
    doing everything possible to run a safe operation
    on the ground and in the air
  • The business aircraft safety record is equal to
    that of the commercial airlines

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Safety and Security
  • Avoid Runway Incursions
  • A collision potential exists any time an aircraft
    is moving
  • Runway incursions increase the potential for
    collisions between aircraft on the ground
  • Aircraft operators can minimize the chances of
    being involved in a runway incursion by
  • Having pilots fully prepare for departures
    (maximize pilot situational awareness)
  • Having flightcrews use standard operating
    procedures and standard communications
    phraseology during surface operations
  • Using sterile cockpit procedures to the maximum
    extent possible while taxiing
  • See additional tips in the NBAA Airports Handbook

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Safety and Security
  • Avoid Ground Damage
  • FBOs and airport tenants together can mitigate
    the potential for a ground damage accident by
  • Using two wing walkers
  • Using adequate lighting at night on ramp areas
    and on aircraft and vehicles themselves
  • Towing aircraft at safe speeds
  • Chocking aircraft during repairs and fueling
  • See additional tips in the NBAA Airports Handbook

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Safety and Security
  • Operators Role in Airport Security
  • Require positive access for all gates and doors
  • Check aircraft interiors for unauthorized
    personnel prior to departure
  • Positively identify all luggage before loading
    aboard an aircraft
  • Require accurate passenger manifests

See also NBAA Security Best Practices at
www.nbaa.org/security
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Advocacy
  • Spread the Good News
  • Business aviation is a good story
  • Proactive and on-going airport support is
    important
  • If your airport doesnt already have a support
    group, why not start one?
  • Last-minute stands on issues are traditionally
    ineffective

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Advocacy
  • Support Group Organizing Tips
  • Identify the issues that can rally the group
  • Test those ideas with airport users
  • Invite all airport users to participate
  • Create an agenda and meet on the airport
  • Identify everyones motivation for attending
  • Record minutes and set the next meeting date

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Advocacy
  • Working With the Media
  • Media involvement has both up and down sides
  • News to you may not be news to a reporter
  • Invite reporters on an airport tour
  • Its okay to say I dont know, but make every
    effort to follow up with an answer later
  • There is no such thing as off the record
  • Ask NBAA for help

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Advocacy
  • Young People Are the Industrys Future
  • Plan aviation career days
  • Offer student scholarships
  • Offer flight department and FBO internships

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Your GA Airport A Quick Review
  • GA airports
  • Facilitate national and international business
    travel
  • Provide a much larger travel network than the
    airlines
  • Deliver significant economic impact through jobs
    and tax revenues
  • Need support from community members like you in
    order to truly thrive
  • Airport user groups can make significant inroads
    to protecting your airport

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A Few Questions for You
  • What surprised you most about what youve heard
    today?
  • Would you be inclined to join an airport user
    group?
  • What do you think is the biggest challenge faced
    by your local airport?

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For More Information
  • Refer to the NBAA Airports Handbook for further
    reading
  • Contact the NBAA regional representative assigned
    to the area that includes your airport

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About NBAA
  • Founded in 1947 and based in Washington, DC, the
    National Business Aviation Association, Inc.
    (NBAA) is the leading organization for companies
    that rely on general aviation aircraft to help
    make their businesses more efficient, productive
    and successful. Contact NBAA at (800) FYI-NBAA or
    info_at_nbaa.org.
  • Not an NBAA Member? Join today by visiting
  • www.nbaa.org/join/ah

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