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Coming up in the
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Cover Story: The Airport Business 2022 Projects of the Year
Infrastructure: Pavement Rejuvenation Best Practices
Technology: Baggage System innovations
Product Focus: Digital Signage
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Build Back Better
IT'S CLEAR to me the wind is at our back going into 2022.
The worst of the pandemic appears to be over.
Vaccines are making into arms - albeit slower
than anticipated, but even some of the hesitant
are finally getting it. People are traveling again.
Morgan Stanley recently released its Airline
Corporate Travel Survey results showing a
potential rebound in traffic in 2022. While
corporate travel budgets are expected to be
half of 2019 levels, they will rise 78 percent
compared to 2021.
Private aircraft use is also expected to grow
in 2022, meaning the business aviation boom is
going to keep soaring into the foreseeable future.
Airports are getting $25 billion in new
funding to take care of a massive backlog in
repairs as part of the federal infrastructure bill.
This cash infusion coupled with AIP funding
and PFC revenue is providing airports a oncein-a-lifetime
opportunity to move past the past
and create the facilities of tomorrow.
But funding and vaccines alone won't get us
out of the doldrums. The industry saw its workforce
challenges exacerbated by the pandemic.
One of the most overlooked issues may be
airport badging policies. Security badging is an
extremely important step to keeping the public
safe, but policies can vary widely.
While attending the ACI-NA Annual
Conference in Reno, I learned some airports can
take nearly a month to issue a security badge.
It doesn't matter how many other airports have
already issued an applicant badges, the process
still isn't expedited.
An engineer or an architect waiting weeks for
a badge is inconvenient. But a concessions worker
or someone making $10 an hour can't afford that
decision. An AOA worker or a mechanic can find
plenty of other jobs doing similar work with half
the headaches of airfield maintenance, without
waiting a month.
Building better infrastructure and embracing
technology will go a long way to building the
best air system in the world. But take the
time to consider internal policies to make
sure you're not creating a self-inflicted
challenge to improving operations.
No matter how much concrete, steel
and glass you put into your terminals to
improve them, it doesn't do a lick of good
if there's no one there to make it run. - Joe
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