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2025-10-07 20:52Des Moines City Council proposes airport legislative agenda
Modest progress with one glitch The last meeting of the Des Moines City Council introduced a first draft of their state airport legislative agenda. There were important positive steps, marred only by one glitch. The presentation slides reflected last year’s agenda, which still mentioned funding for a fixed-site Air Quality Monitor as a goal. That -
The PFC Explainer
Every time you fly out of Sea-Tac, $4.50 of your ticket price goes directly to the airport. That charge, called a Passenger Facility Charge (PFC), is a multi-billion dollar fund, and one of the biggest single revenue sources for airport expansion. In the past it was used for noise-mitigation programs. Today? Not so much. -
2025-09-29 14:31Why Is Your Flight Always Delayed? Blame Government Shutdowns.
By Binyamin Appelbaum Opinion Writer Sept. 29, 2025 The Federal Aviation Administration doesn’t have enough air traffic controllers to control the nation’s air traffic. It’s a big problem. Airlines have been forced to delay, reschedule or cancel thousands of flights, especially at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey. If you’ve flown recently, perhaps you’ve -
Part 150 for Dummies
Read this, including the recent update, and then attend the upcoming Port of Seattle Part 150 workshops. -
FAA PFC Approved Locations – Washington State (August 2025)
FAA Passenger Facility Charge approved locations as of August 31, 2025; SEA shows $3.84 billion in total approved charges. -
2025-08-08 23:42
Stone LLP | Complete List of FAA Grant Assurances
Complete List Of FAA Grant Assurances Complied by the Airport & Aviation Attorneys at STONE LLP Grant Assurances Applicable To Airports and Airport Sponsors As of the writing of this webpage, the FAA mandates a total of 39 grant assurances and these apply to each airport’s performance of its grant agreement with the federal government -
2025-08-07 21:15More than 1,000 United Airlines flights delayed in the US due to technology problem
By JACK BROOK and LISA BAUMANN A technology issue prompted United Airlines to ground planes at major U.S. airports Wednesday and more than 1,000 flights were delayed. The impacted system, called Unimatic, houses flight information that is fed to other systems including those that calculate weight and balance and track flight times, according to United. It’s not clear -
2025-07-07 19:22Significant Changes to the National Environmental Policy Act Affecting Airport Projects
The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) has seen seismic changes in the past several months. On June 30, 2025, FAA rescinded its previous NEPA procedures and issued new Order 1050.1G, Environmental Impacts: Policies and Procedures, to address the recent rescission of the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) NEPA regulations, recent Executive Orders, and a recent -
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