National and International within the U.S. Airports are seeking private-sector alternatives for Airport management and development. These demands in-effect have created a compelling industry movement towards enterprise partnerships between public owners of airports and private management firms. The increased benefit to the enterprise model to airport management and operations offers several pay offs to airports:

• Reduced risks to Airport related project developments
• Improved operating efficiencies, increased Airport revenues and improved airport amenities
• Conceivable new revenue streams for local, state and international governments

Air Transportation facilities are pressingly shopping for modernistic and strategic Airport business management models and financial investors. That will immediately enhance their efforts towards Privatization. Initiate strategic alliances with Airlines and assess the impact of government policy, regulation and legislation. Additionally, major investment programs are required to meet the expected growth in air travel demand, while governments are reducing their funding for airport projects.

As a result, air transportation facilities are now looking towards the global trend in privatization of public utilities. With all the other demands on their resources, these air transportation facilities are recognizing that private investment capital and commercialized management can meet airport expansion and service needs for the next century. As a means of promoting local regional and national economic growth, airport privatization offers governments a new and effective commercial business model in comparison to an obsolete nonprofit model.

Airport Innovations (AI)

Airport Innovations is devoted to providing air transportation facilities and commercial airline organizations with enhanced Airport Management strategies and leading industry solution providers. Additionally, Airport Business management will educate and inform the key Airport initiators on how cutting edge global airport management strategies and privatization can be capitalized towards the operational optimization of the commercial Aviation Industry. Some of the topics to be discussed in the February 2007 issue will include:



Recipient Job Titles

C-Level Executive Management
Chief Security Officers, Chief Executive Officers, Chiefs of Airport Staff, Chiefs of Airport Police, Chief Airport Safety Officers, Chief Management Analysts, Chief Administration Officers, Chiefs of Environmental Services, Chiefs of Airport Planning, Chiefs of Public & Government Affairs, Chiefs of Real Estate & Development, Chief Administration Officers, Chief Operating Officers, Chief Information Officers, Chief Engineers, Chief Outsourcing Officers, Chief Human Resource Officers, Chief Marketing Officers, Chief Technology Officers and Chiefs of Strategic Planning.

Managers and Directors
Executive Vice Presidents, Vice President of Business Development, General Managers, Finance Directors, Aviation Directors, Communication Directors, Performance Management Analyst, Planning & Regulatory Affairs Director, IT Managers, Communication Directors, Information Technology Directors, Operations Director, Technical Director, Deputy Director of IT, Vice President of Communications, Vice President of Planning, Vice President of Technical Operations, Directors of Airport Planning and Programming, Directors of Information Systems, Director General of Airport Security, Airport Directors, Federal Security Directors, Directors of Anti-Terrorism, Security Directors, Operations Director & Security, Vice Presidents of Safety and Security and Safety Directors.

John D. Kasarda is Kenan Distinguished Professor of Management and Director of the Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise at the University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Business School. Dr. Kasarda has published more than 80 scholarly articles and nine books on aviation infrastructure, logistics, economic development, competitiveness, and commercial real estate. He is frequently quoted in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Business Week, and international media. Dr. Kasarda has offered numerous executive programs on air logistics, airport cities, firm siting, and global supply-chain management to multinational firms such as FedEx, Lufthansa, DHL, Thai Airways International, Caterpillar Logistics, Prudential Real Estate, Bank of America and Deloitte & Touche and has been an advisor to airports around the globe. Under his leadership, the Kenan Institute was named the world's top air logistics educational institution by The International Air Cargo Association for its work on airports and industrial development.

Dr. Kasarda received his B.S. and M.B.A. (with Distinction) from Cornell University and his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina. He has been the recipient of many grants and awards from such organizations as the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, World Bank, National Science Foundation, National Academy of Sciences, the United Nations Development Program, and the U.S. Agency for International Development. Dr. Kasarda has been elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for his research on airport-driven economic development and a Senior Fellow and Trustee of the Urban Land Institute. He is considered the leading developer of the Aerotropolis concept defining the roles of aviation and airports in shaping 21st century business competitiveness and urban growth.

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George Karamanos obtained his M.Sc. in Transportation Management, specialising on Aviation Management and Strategy from the University of New York. He started his career as a consultant with Speedwing/ORCO in airline strategy and organisation in 1992. He joined Virgin Atlantic in Athens in 1995 as Marketing and Administration Manager and in 1999 he moved to Hong Kong as Virgin's Business Development Manager for Asia. George Karamanos joined Athens International Airport S.A. in 2000 as Marketing Manager in charge of Airline and Passenger Marketing, as well as Market Intelligence in the new Athens International Airport. Since 2002 he is also responsible for the Public Relations activities of the airport. As of July 2005 Mr. George Karamanos is the Director of Communications & Marketing.

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Ms. Paula Hochstetler is President of the Airport Consultants Council (ACC), the international trade association based in the Washington, D.C. area that represents the unique interests of consultant firms and related businesses that provide airport development and operations expertise to airports, airlines and government agencies.

Since joining ACC in 1994, she has attended to the interests of member firms in both the governmental and commercial arenas. Her activities include authoring articles for a variety of publications, presenting testimony before the US Congress, giving presentations at many government and private sector events, and co-chairing technical committees and working groups engaged in the development of technical industry standards.

Prior to joining ACC, Ms. Hochstetler spent 14 years planning airports worldwide. She advised the leadership of major hub as well as general aviation airports on environmental, land use, airfield, terminal, capacity, forecast, and funding issues. In her last major assignment before joining the ACC she spent nine months in Hong Kong finalizing plans for the new Hong Kong International Airport.

Ms. Hochstetler holds both bachelor and masters degrees from Purdue University, and is the incoming President of the Aero Club of Washington.

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James Christiansen, President of NetJets Aviation, first started out as an Army aviator, flying helicopters. After leaving the Army, Jim worked for an air taxi in the New York area as Chief Pilot. In 1974, he joined Executive Air Fleet (EAF) as a helicopter captain assigned to a major insurance company. In 1988, EAF was sold to Jet Aviation, and Jim became president of Jet Aviation Business Jets. In 1990, Jim joined Executive Jet Aviation of Columbus, OH, as president. EJA was the oldest jet charter operator in the world, and its owner, Richard Santulli, had recently introduced the concept of fractional jet ownership with his NetJets program. In late 1992, EJA sold its management and charter operations to K-C Aviation of Dallas, TX. Jim moved to K-C Aviation as part of the acquisition, and served as president of K-C Aviation Transportation Services until late 1994. In 1994, Jim was recruited by the Rockefeller family to be president of its aircraft management company, Wayfarer Ketch, located in White Plains, NY. Wayfarer was sold to TAG Aviation in 1999, and Jim assumed the responsibilities of Chief Operating Officer. In October of 2001, Jim was invited to re-join Executive Jet and undertake the project of bringing the NetJets fractional aircraft ownership product to existing corporate flight departments for supplemental lift.

Jim has been very active in the aviation community, and in March 2002 he finished his tenure as Chairman of the National Air Transportation Association (NATA). Jim was also Chairman of the Fractional Ownership Aviation Rulemaking Committee (FOARC). Jim is also currently Chairman of the Fractional Aviation Business Counsel and the Business Aviation Security Taskforce.