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2024-04-01
DEFENDERS OF HIGHLINE FOREST April 2024 Newsletter
DEFENDERS OF HIGHLINE FOREST Standing up for North SeaTac Park & all health-protecting forest within ten miles of SeaTac Airport April 2024 View this email in your browser Write us at info@defendersofhighlineforest.org Defenders’ concerns about Port’s LSP are being heard! This map displays areas around SeaTac Airport where the Port is providing or considering environmental stewardship. (Note -
Port of Tacoma approves funding to advance new headquarters project
By Shawna De La Rosa – Reporter, Puget Sound Business Journal Apr 1, 2024 Port of Tacoma commissioners recently approved a motion to authorize $7 million to advance its planned Port Maritime Center project. The approval means construction could start in 2025 and could be complete as early as mid-2026, Kristin Ang, port commission president, and Eric Johnson, executive -
Upgrade SEA — The Next Era of Capital Projects Takes Flight
By Aly Lande, Capital Project Marketing Specialist Picture an airport journey without long lines and overflowing crowds. You follow a predictable and easy path from curb to gate with the space, services, and amenities that make your trip just right. There is more of what you know and love about Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA), plus more -
2024-03-28
Will Your Points and Miles Be Impacted by the Credit Card Legal Settlement?
Scott Laird | March 28, 2024 In the U.S. credit cards are big business for airlines. Visa and Mastercard have settled litigation with U.S. merchants, ending a long-standing legal case over the swipe fees the credit card processors collect every time a customer uses them to make a purchase. The settlement will lower the swipe -
Why Boeing is such a shitty company (continued)
Friends, On Friday, machinists at Rogue Valley International Airport in Medford, Oregon, discovered that a United Airlines plane that had landed from San Francisco was missing an external panel (see photo, above). The plane was manufactured by Boeing. It was carrying 139 passengers and 6 crew. No one was injured, thank heavens. The missing panel -
2024-03-22
Dutch airline KLM misled customers with vague green claims, court rules
Operator also found by Amsterdam court to have painted ‘overly rosy picture’ of sustainable aviation fuel Ajit Niranjan Wed 20 Mar 2024 10.34 EDT First published on Wed 20 Mar 2024 10.08 EDT The Dutch airline KLM has misled customers with vague environmental claims and painted “an overly rosy picture” of its sustainable aviation fuel, -
Two court victories on Schiphol airport and KLM airlines!
Press Release on March 20th 2024 – Today, a historic verdict ruled that Schiphol Amsterdam airport has to reduce its flights to a maximum of 400,000 a year. Yesterday, another court ruled that the Dutch airline KLM has misled customers with its green claims. These victories against corporate polluters are a result of growing citizen’s -
2024-03-20
District Court of The Hague Case number: C-09-632625-HA ZA 22-610 Foundation For The Right To Protection Against Aircraft Noise (RBV) vs. The State of Netherlands
ECLI:NL:RBDHA:2024:3734 Authority District Court of The Hague Date of judgment 20-03-2024 Date of publication 20-03-2024 Case number C-09-632625-HA ZA 22-610 Jurisdictions Civil law FeaturesSubstantive action, First instance – multiple Content indication Government liability; 8 ECHR; Aviation Act 1.1. In these proceedings, RBV claims that the District Court should rule that the State has acted unlawfully -
Schiphol capped to 400,000 flights without establishing balanced approach
This is a machine translation from Dutch. Today the judge in The Hague served a historic verdict. The government has squandered the interests of local residents of Schiphol for decades and must now comply with the law. That means an end to anticipatory That means an end to anticipatory maintenance and up to 400,000 flights. -
Alaska Airlines CEO sees ‘business travel finally starting to come back’
By Mark Calvey – Senior Reporter, San Francisco Business Times Alaska Airlines CEO Ben Minicucci said Tuesday that business travel is coming back, including in Seattle. “We’re seeing more business traffic come back,” Minicucci told those attending the J.P. Morgan Industrials Conference Tuesday. “What’s really been helpful is the return of business and corporate traffic for us