Puerto Rico airport officials look to Delta’s new JFK terminal for ideas
May 27, 2013
New York — Puerto Rico’s top airport official was on hand for last Friday’s widely attended inauguration of Delta Air Lines’ new terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport, looking for ideas to improve San Juan’s Luis Muñoz Marín hub.
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Delta gearing up to open new $1.2B JFK terminal
May 20, 2013
Delta Airlines is about to make a big landing in New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport this week when it will officially inaugurate its new state-of-the-art facility at Terminal 4, which it has been expanding an upgrading since November 2010 through a $1.2 billion investment.
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Mexican low-cost carrier Interjet ‘warming up’ SJU route
May 15, 2013
Mexico’s second largest air carrier, Interjet, made its debut in the Puerto Rico last night, with the arrival of its first chartered flight from Mexico City, carrying 150 passengers.
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St. Maarten closes $132M bond issue for int’l airport upgrades
May 14, 2013
The St. Maarten Tourism Bureau says arrivals to the Dutch-speaking destination jumped by 17 percent in 2012 compared to the year before — aided by JetBlue’s new direct service from Puerto Rico and weekly Delta flights from New York to St. Maarten.
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St. Vincent to get 1st int’l airport in ’14
May 6, 2013
The 32-island nation of St. Vincent & the Grenadines will mark a milestone early next year, when Argyle International Airport opens for business.
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Major changes already underway at LMM airport
April 26, 2013
Despite not having yet completed the transition through which it will officially take over control of the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in Carolina, Aerostar Holdings is already planning major changes for services available to passengers, mostly related to concessions and transportation.
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AGP: Southwest to pump $200M into Puerto Rico economy
April 15, 2013
Puerto Rico’s economy stands to make $200 million a year through the arrival of Southwest Airlines, which landed on the island for the first time Sunday morning, carrying more than 170 passengers from Orlando.
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China bankrolls $150M Guyana international airport upgrade
April 15, 2013
Cheddi Jagan International Airport is about to undergo a dramatic transformation that will enable Guyana’s only air link to the outside world to receive larger, heavier aircraft — boosting direct passenger traffic to and from Europe and North America.
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New Bahamas airport raises financial issues
April 2, 2013
One of the Caribbean’s top tourism destinations, the Bahamas, now has a world-class international airport to boast about. Yet who will foot the bill for this strikingly modern, $409.5 million expansion project remains a matter of controversy.
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Aerostar lands operating certificate for San Juan airport
February 27, 2013
Grupo Aeroportuario del Sureste (ASUR), one half of the Aerostar Airport Holdings, LLC consortium that won the bid to take over the management and operation of the Luis Muñoz Marín Airport in Puerto Rico, said Wednesday it has obtained the necessary 139 certificate from the Federal Aviation Administration, and is ready to start modernizing the airport.
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AGP ‘keeps word’ on Puerto Rico airport privatization deal
February 27, 2013
Saying his administration “will always keep its word and honor its legal responsibilities,” Puerto Rico Gov. Alejandro García-Padilla gave the final go-ahead to the public private partnership through which the government will pass the responsibility of operating and managing the Luis Muñoz Marín airport to a private consortium.
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FAA clears Aerostar to assume control of San Juan airport
February 26, 2013
Saying the Puerto Rico Ports Authority has the authority to lease the Luis Muñoz Marín Airport in San Juan to Aerostar Airport Holdings, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration confirmed its approval of the public-private partnership that will officially transfer control of the facility to the consortium.
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House rejects LMM P3 in scathing report as FAA ruling looms
February 26, 2013
The Puerto Rico House of Representatives wrapped up nearly a month of probing the terms of the public-private partnership agreement proposed for the Luis Muñoz Marín Airport Monday with a scathing report that shoots down any benefit to the deal through which the government would turn over the management of the facility to a private operator.
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FAA mulls nixing overnight flights at LMM
February 22, 2013
The Federal Aviation Administration announced Friday it is considering eliminating the overnight shift of air traffic control tower operators at Luis Muñoz Marín Airport in early April as part of a plan to reduce its expenditures by approximately $600 million for the remainder of Fiscal Year 2013.
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Ports Authority chief says FAA ‘rigorously evaluating’ airport deal
February 20, 2013
Puerto Rico Ports Authority Executive Director Víctor Suárez said Tuesday the Federal Aviation Administration has been “rigorously evaluating” the proposed public-private partnership deal for the Luis Muñoz Marín International airport because “everything they express will become precedent.”
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