From last month

August 2016 revenue totaled $455,984 … $42,670 ahead of budget projections for the month. That result brings the fiscal year-to-date revenue total to $4,924,303 … $152,230 ahead of budget projections. The airport should exceed $5.3 Million in total revenue for FY16 (at the end of September), which would be its best (revenue) year ever.

August 2016 operations totaled 8,838 with 2,855 IFR itinerant operations. FY16 year-to-date total operations stand at 91,776 … on pace to reach 100,000 annual operations for the first time since FY09. (In the six-year period of FY10-FY15, total operations have been very stable around 95,000 per year. In the pre-recession years of FY04-FY07, the airport averaged over 133,000 annual operations.) August continued the typical summer pattern of a fall-off in international operations, with only 19 international arrivals and 8 departures recorded. We expect both IFR and international traffic to pick up in September, following the typical seasonal pattern.

August fuel flowage totaled a disappointing 450,193 gallons … nearly 11% below projections for the month and 10% lower than last August. Year-to-date fuel flowage volume stands at 5,731,048 gallons. This total is in line with FY13 figures and about 8% below FY15 year-to-date; this pattern of weaker-than-expected fuel flowage has now extended to six months.

The AAAE General Aviation Issues & Security Conference was held in Denver this year, August 21-23; Airport Director Joel Jenkinson, Real Estate Manager Bill Dyer, and Airport Operations Manager Joe McAnally all attended representing Addison. Joel Jenkinson served on the conference planning committee, participated as a presenter in a session on sustainability, and moderated a session on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). The conference also featured sessions on the state of the general aviation industry, security issues, FAA’s Metroplex airspace changes, land use issues near airports, and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) User Fee Airport programs. With the added opportunities for networking with FAA and other airport representatives, it was a very valuable conference for our team.

Joe McAnally stayed an extra day to attend an Airport Minimum Standards and Leasing Guidelines workshop that was presented by Airport Management Consulting Group (AMCG) … very timely, since we will soon start work on updating our own Minimum Standards.

RUNWAY SAFETY INITIATIVES

The airport hosted a Runway Safety Action Team (RSAT) meeting on August 16. This is an annual meeting held jointly with the FAA (primarily involving the local air traffic controllers, but with participation from Flight Standards personnel as well) with the aim of improving operational safety. As the invitation stated, “the purpose of this RSAT meeting is to unite those individuals and organizations that are actively involved in airside operations and movement of aircraft, vehicles and equipment on the Airport Operations Area (AOA). We look for participation from all airport interests.”