He unified the transit system ; directed the building of low-cost public housing, public playgrounds, and parks ; constructed airports ; reorganized the police force ; defeated the powerful Tammany Hall political machine ; and reestablished merit employment in place of patronage jobs.

New Zealand supplied food to United States forces in the South Pacific, and constructed airports in Nadi, Fiji.

With its recently built terminal building, constructed in 1981, its facilities are better than many airports in the Caribbean.

Hence, while infrastructure by way of airports, roads, railways, dams, hospitals, fertilizer plants, cement factories, universities, and steel mills were constructed in member countries through Colombo Plan assistance, a large number of people were simultaneously trained to manage such infrastructure and the growing economies.

In 1952, after Owen Roberts convinced the commissioners of the country to construct airports on all three Cayman Islands, a runway, along with a terminal was constructed on Grand Cayman at the cost of £ 100, 000.

Many of which later served as the basis for modern airports constructed from the 1960s onwards.

As multiple nuclei develop, transportation hubs such as airports are constructed which allow industries to be established with reduced transportation costs.

Hotels are also constructed near airports because people who travel tend to want to stay near the source of travel.

Although Nagasaki is superficially similar to Japan's other island airports, Kansai International Airport, Kobe Airport, Kitakyushu Airport, and Chūbu Centrair International Airport, Nagasaki's island existed ( in a radically different shape ) before the airport was constructed.

In 1940, during World War II, the British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill ordered military airports to be constructed in the western islands of Scotland, both to defend against a German assault on the Scottish mainland and also to provide reconnaissance planes a base to fly missions over the Atlantic Ocean.

The airline would eventually replace its aging fleet with Hawker Siddeley HS 748 turboprops ( 1972 ) with a larger capacity and range, that would fly between the newer airports constructed in all nine islands of the archipelago ( between 1981 and 1983 ).

Late in 1941, the Permanent Joint Board on Defense — Canada and the United States — decided in the autumn of 1940 that a string of airports should be constructed at Canadian expense between the city of Edmonton in central Alberta and the Alaska-Yukon border.

The West Side Highway, East River Drive, Brooklyn Battery Tunnel, Triborough Bridge, and two airports ( Floyd Bennett Field, and, later, LaGuardia Airport ) were built during his mayoralty.

While Germany occupied Denmark during World War II, the United States controlled Greenland and built airports there.

Where a customer has provided sufficient identifying information, the loyalty card may also be used to access such information to expedite verification during receipt of cheques or dispensing of medical prescription preparations, or for other membership privileges ( e. g., access to a club lounge in airports, using a frequent flyer card ).

In the early 1980s, the country's civilian airports, with the exception of Khartoum International Airport and the airport at Juba, sometimes closed during rainy periods because of runway conditions.

Special VFR is only intended to enable takeoffs and landings from airports that are near to VMC conditions, and may in some States only be performed during daytime hours if a pilot does not possess an instrument rating.

A side effect is that passengers experience some discomfort as the cabin pressure changes during ascent and descent to the majority of airports, which are at low altitudes.

Although construction materials were limited during World War II, Norfolk received priority as an auxiliary field to several war-related airports, including Sioux City Air Field.

SJC suffered with many mid-tier airports during the 2008 rise in oil prices as airlines reduced marginal services to improve profitability.

These would be deployed to the US's widespread airports during periods of heightened tensions.

To this day, Ellington Field serves as a reliever airport for both Bush Intercontinental and the William P. Hobby Airport, and handles diverted aircraft from those two airports during bad weather events and peak traffic times.

The many private airports may have contributed to use of the town as a shipping point for illegal drugs during the 1980s.

Service was expensive compared to nearby airports, and normally ran during inconvenient times.

It is one of eight Canadian airports with United States border preclearance and is one of the main gateways into Canada with 8, 436, 165 or 61. 7 % of its passengers being on non-domestic flights, the highest proportion amongst Canada's airports during 2011.

In the airports they would “ Temporarily augment the civilian airport security function of the nation ’ s commercial airports with a trained, armed, and highly visible military presence .” For more than seven months, several thousand Guardsmen performed those security duties, with additional Guardsmen called into service during the Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year holiday period.

Following World War II, their use gradually tailed off, partially because of the investments in airports during the war.

Airports Council International reported that during the 2nd Quarter 2010, Mitchell was the third fastest-growing airport in the world, exceeded only by airports in Istanbul, Turkey and Moscow, Russia.

However during times of severe inclement weather the airport can suffer from delays or diversions to airports such as Shannon, Dublin or Kerry.

George P. Burdell is often paged by first year marching band students during football games and also at airports, bars, and hotels.

He promoted growth in the nation's air travel sector, however, having 10 new regional airports built during his brief presidency, and further encouraged growth in the auto industry by paving 10, 000 km ( 6, 300 mi ) of intercity roadways.

The base was considered one of the world's busiest airports during the war, reaching an average of 2, 595 air traffic operations daily, more than any airport in the world at that time.

Diversion airports are suitable airports capable of handling a particular ETOPS rated aircraft during an emergency landing and whose flying distance at the point of emergency shall not exceed the ETOPS diversion period of that particular aircraft.

The anti-French sentiment, peaking in early 2003, spilled over onto airports when 1, 500 French nationals were trapped in Abidjan's airport by an anti-French mob.

Only Khartoum International Airport was equipped with modern operational facilities, but by the early 1990s, Khartoum and seven other airports had paved runways.

Sleep can be affected if the airports operate night and early morning flights.

In the early 1980s San Jose International Airport was one of the first U. S airports to participate in the noise regulation program enacted by the U. S. Congress for delineation of airport noise contours and developing a pilot study of residential sound insulation.

The airport opened for business in early 2001, replacing the older Gimpo International Airport, which now serves mostly domestic destinations plus shuttle flights to alternate airports in China, Japan, and Taiwan.

While airport models have been around, in a way, since air fields were open to the public, early model airports were basically restricted to public showcases about the airport and its surroundings to the public ; these were usually located inside the airport themselves.

The FAA designated LIMA an Official Metro Airport in early 2011, meaning it is now grouped with LaGuardia, JFK and Newark in travel and informational searches for New York airports, providing better exposure to the traveling public.

During the 1980s and early 1990s, Nagoya Airport was a busy international airport because of overflow from Japan's other international airports, New Tokyo International Airport ( now Narita International Airport ) near Tokyo and Osaka International Airport ( Itami Airport ) near Osaka.

United first began serving Huntsville in the early 1960's when this air carrier acquired Capital Airlines which had been operating four engine Vickers Viscount turboprop airliners nonstop to Memphis, Knoxville and Washington, D. C. with direct, no change of plane service to New York ( via both LaGuardia and Newark airports ) and Philadelphia.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, there was discussion of building a common Rochester-Buffalo airport in southeastern Niagara County, which would have taken over passenger traffic from Rochester-Monroe County and Greater Buffalo International airports.

In the early days of aviation, when there were no paved runways and all landing fields were grass, a typical airfield might permit take offs and landings in only a couple directions, much like today's airports, whereas an aerodrome was distinguished, by virtue of its much greater size, by its ability to handle landings and take offs in any direction.

Under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Aeronautics Branch cooperated with public works agencies on projects that represented an early form of federal aid to airports.

In early 2009, all Easy Pay customers automatically became SunPass Plus customers and have the privilege of using their transponders to pay for airport parking at Tampa, Orlando, Palm Beach, Fort Lauderdale and Miami airports.

By the early 1930s, commercial airlines and airports began to be developed in the United States as a result of the Federal government's use of private contractors for postal transport, inspired by Charles Lindbergh's famous transatlantic flight in 1927.

Disney also operated approximately 15 smaller-scale locations in airports throughout the United States, which were all shuttered in the early 2001s.

Adjacent to the attraction's lobby is an Art Deco themed restaurant called " The Compass Rose Diner " which features the characteristics of diners associated with airports during the 1930's and early 1940's.

He has managed projects to improve airports, was an early supporter of the Alaska Aerospace Development Corporation ’ s launch facilities on Kodiak, served on the Board of Directors of the Challenger Learning Center in Kenai and as the national chairman of the Aerospace States Association, an organization of Lieutenant Governors and Governor-appointed delegates from space ports and academia who advise Congress on aviation and space issues.

On schedules set by the customers, cargo is received in the early morning from large jet freighters at hub airports and distributed by Ameriflight airplanes to smaller communities whose traffic ( or airports ) would not support the big airplanes.

In the early 1960s, the Federal Aviation Administration ( FAA ) determined that Love Field in Dallas and Greater Southwest International Airport in Fort Worth, Texas were unsuitable for expected future air traffic demands, and the FAA refused to provide continued federal funding for the municipal airports.

INSPASS, or INS Passenger Accelerated Service System, was a program of the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service ( INS ) during the 1990s and early 2000s the purpose of which was to facilitate the entry of pre-screened low-risk travellers through immigration and customs at certain airports.