Airports Council International – North America (ACI-NA) has selected San Francisco International, Portland International and Dane County Regional Airport as winners of its 2007 Environmental Achievement Awards. Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport also won a specialrecognition award. “Airports have many innovative programmes to mitigate environmental impacts of their operations,” said Jessica Steinhilber, ACI-NA’s director of environmental affairs. … [Read more...] about AMERICAN GATEWAYS FOR ASIA~ ACI announces environmental awards

New York should make Stewart International Airport an intermodal hub after the city’s major airport operator takes it over, a state offi cial said. Developing“some type of transit to balanceout roadway access” would position theairport 55 miles north of New York forhealthy growth and long-term sustainability,state Transportation CommissionerAstrid Glynn said. Her department has begun a study into the feasibility of constructing a rail link to Stewart from an existing … [Read more...] about AMERICAN GATEWAYS FOR ASIA~ New York airport eyed as intermodal hub

We received the following contribution from someone, who once told us that Bellyache was the only page he read in Payload Asia. It sort of refl ects the type of story that he hascontributed doesn't it? Anyway, here is The Dying Wish -Italian style: An old Italian Mafi a “Don” is dying and he calls his grandson to his bed.“Lissin-a me. I wanna for you to takamy chrome plated 38 revolver so youalways remember me.” “But grandpa, I really don’t lika … [Read more...] about TIMES UP

We hear that American Airlines, which acquired the assets of Trans World Airlines (TWA) in 2001, is sending recall notices to 460 furloughed former TWA fl ight attendants to address current staffi ng needs. The Dallas-Ft Worth-based carrier, which also has been bringing back pilots for the last 14 months, said that those fl ight attendants who accept the recall and meet all requirements will be eligible to return to service in either November or December 2007. The airline didn’t … [Read more...] about REQUIREMENTS

Still on Heathrow, it probably won’t surprise you that a recent experiment by a leading neuro-psychologist has revealed that passing through Heathrow airport is more stressful thanbeing mugged at knifepoint! The experiment, carried out by Dr David Lewis on behalf of business class airline Silverjet, was conducted to measure the stress levels experienced by passengers travelling through Europe’sbusiest airport. Four passengers had chest monitors fi tted to record increases in … [Read more...] about STRESS