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RUNWAY 13L REHAB
It's a GO! Collaboration success
BY JEFF YAPALATER
Runway 13l 31R construction begins
April 1st.The Port Authority and
KAAMCO reached a collaborative understanding
in which the Port can meet its
April 1st construction start on runway 13l
31R while making changes to mitigate possible
delays to the satisfaction of the majority
of JFK stakeholders. It was a great
sigh of relief as collaborative Dialogue
Meetings were held and modification to
the planned construction were agreed to
reducing the impact on the airlines without
sacrificing this necessary repair and
not delaying the overall JFK redevelopment
which is planned to follow on the
heels of this project.
As in previously meetings many airlines
had concerns about the potential
negative impact on their operations in
times of bad weather and the lack of adequate
taxiway access.
WOMEN PIONEERS
“FIRSTS” IN AVIATION
These are among the women
aviation pioneers of “ Firsts” in the
aviation industry.
We have to mention local
Firsts:Port Authority with two
women holding the top management
positions at LaGuardia Airport;
General Manager Lysa Scully
and Deputy General Manager
Christina Callahan. Dr. Sharon
DeVivo first woman President of
Vaughn College.
NYC Emergency Management
Offers JFK disaster support
BY JEFF YAPALATER
The NYC OEM has a main missionwhose
mission is to provide assistance to
the public in the event of a disaster.
Jay Brandt spoke at the JFK Kaamco
meeting and explained how the NYC
OEM wants to work with the airlines to
set up logistics to deal with disastrous
airline accidents.
The Human Services department of
the NYC OEM is missioned to be a part of
logistics in a supportive role. This agency
has a large scope of responsibility for
working with all entities involved in any
accident and particularly that in which
lives are lost
Brandt explained that the overall service
to the people affected by a disaster
is the Family Assistance Center. This
is a brick and mortar building situated
in and near an airport in case of a serious
accident. The is facility would offer
separate areas for the victims of the accident
and an area for family and friends.
Brandt said, “ This is what we do and it
is our job. We have good contacts with all
agencies to connect with them all. There
are so many layers of government that
the OEM can help a problem that needs to
be solved. We are the same service in FAC
as NTSB but specific to the NYC.”
This Family Assistance Center would
offer a wide range of services in one location
which would include: a medical
examiner service, the Mayor’s office,
missing persons assist, connection with
emergency manage teams. NTSB, air
carrier response teams, 311, Brandt encouraged
the airlines to work with the
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Jay Brandt shares information with KAAMCO Photo by Jeff Yapalater Continued on page 28
Jetweels ...................................4
Calendar of Events............. 6
Chamber Luncheon ...........8
Cargo EXPO ..................... 10-22
Cargo Roundtable...............12
Cargo Shorts ......................... 17
Customs STOP ACT .............. 21
Black History ........................23
Chamber Card Exchange ..25
British Air 100th ..................29
Aerodrome ............................. 31
HOW TO REACH US
SOCIAL MEDIA
2 AIRPORT VOICE, MARCH 2019
DAILY’S GRIND BY PAUL LEHNER
Port announces outreach
The Port Authority today
announced the opening of
community outreach offi ces to
support all of its ongoing and
future major redevelopment
projects at Newark Liberty
International, John F.
Kennedy International
and LaGuardia airports to
provide regular engagement
with and information to
customers, residents and
other stakeholders. Updated
information will be found
on www.anewjfk.com.
Addi t iona l informat ion
can also be fopind at www/
jfkairport.com.
“We are taking an
unprecedented step to actively
engage with those who live or
work in the neighborhoods
adjacent to our legacy
facilities that are being or
will be rebuilt,” said Port
Authority Executive Director
Rick Cotton. “We recognize
these major construction
projects impact the local
communities that surround
these facilities and we want
economic activities from our
projects to yield benefi ts to
local communities. These
centers also will help facilitate
an agency priority to enhance
diversity and inclusion
initiatives by helping to
link MWBE contractors to
available construction work
on all of the projects.”
Airport redevelopment
outreach offi ces are open
for EWR Terminal One
Redevelopment in Newark,
NJ, and another for JFK’s
redevelopment in Jamaica,
Queens will open in March.
A mobile outreach effort has
been in place at LaGuardia
during the past two years
of redevelopment, and a
permanent facility will be
opened in close proximity to
the airport later this year.
The permanent LaGuardia
redevelopment community
offi ce in East Elmhurst will
look to build on initiatives
that to date have resulted
in the issuance of nearly
850 contracts as part of the
redevelopment valued at more
than $1.14 billion to certifi ed
minority- and women-owned
businesses. It also will build
This is a snapshot of the www.jfl airport.com website. It has excellent Real
Time information on many travel possible bottlenecks.
on the nearly 400 new hires
for jobs at the airport’s new
Terminal B concourse, which
opened in December, with
55 percent of those hires
being Queens residents.
This new community offi ce
will be in addition to a new
offi ce for the Council for
Airport Opportunity (CAO),
which will be based in the
current facility of Elmcor, a
social service agency based
in Corona. Neighborhood
Housing Services of Queens
is also a partner in this offi ce.
The FAA has issued a new
rule prohibiting the transport
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