WingTips April 2015 E-mail not displaying correctly? View in Browser Join our mailing list April 2015 Volume 7, Issue 4 In This Issue Air Service News Hotel & Transit Center Utah Parks Frontier Airlines Announces New Denver to Raleigh- Durham Route Earth Day at DIA BA Has New Plane Starting June 11, Frontier Airlines will begin nonstop service between Denver and Electric Vehicles 747 In Museum Raleigh-Durham International Airport (RDU) in North Carolina. Famous Aviators The Kindest Flight Southwest Increasing Denver Flights in June Southwest is increasing its service from Denver, beginning June 7, 2015. The new flights will be between Denver and Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Columbus, Houston (Hobby), Minneapolis-St. Paul, Orlando, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Portland, Raleigh-Durham, and Seattle. Southwest Airlines' added nonstop flights bring the airline's current Denver market volume of 174 daily flights up to 185. Completion of the Westin Denver International Airport Hotel and Conference Center is moving quickly and will be completed in November 2015. With many of the rooms Southwest's Weekly Flight to Albany Begins June 7 carpeted, wallpapered, and illuminated, the hotel is a sight to see! The new hotel and Once a week on Saturdays, conference center will provide many amenities to the metro Denver area and will be effective June 7, 2015, home to several new public art pieces that will be installed this spring. nonstop service between Albany, N.Y. (ALB), and Construction Update: Denver begins on Southwest Airlines. Paver installation is underway on the plaza, just outside Terminal Level 5 Carpet has been laid in both hotel ballrooms United Adds Twice-Weekly Exterior doors to both west and east restaurants have been installed on the Flights Between Denver and plaza level North Bend, Ore. http://business.flydenver.com/info/news/publications/wingtips/2015AprLarge.html[4/27/2015 3:56:54 PM] WingTips April 2015 The tiling for the swimming pool and hot tub is now complete on the 11th floor On Sundays and Wednesdays The commuter rail power lines are now live from July 1 to October 18, The first rail cars arrived at the platform for static testing United Airlines will conduct A two-car train made its first trip under its own power from Union Station to new nonstop flights between DIA on April 17 Denver International Airport and Southwest Oregon Regional Airport (OTH), in North Bend, Ore. United will use CRJ-700 jet aircraft, providing a full-service cabin and seating for up to 70 passengers, including six first- class cabin seats. The town of North Bend is on Coos Bay and north of the town of Coos Bay. The bay is located on Oregon's southern coast (or "Oregon's Adventure Coast"). The Pacific Coast Highway (U.S. Highway 101) goes through North Bend, which is near six state parks, wildlife refuges, beaches, and lighthouses. A FasTracks commuter train—part of the East Rail Line—is parked at its station at Denver Southwest Applies for DEN- International Airport for static testing. The station is located on the first level of the hotel and Puerto Vallarta transit center complex being built just south of Jeppesen Terminal. The East Rail Line connects the airport with Denver Union Station and is scheduled to start service in spring 2016. Southwest Airlines filed an application with the U.S. Follow this link to see the train pull into the DIA station for the first time under its Department of Transportation own power. to provide daily, nonstop service between Denver and East Rail Line Train Puerto Vallarta's (PVR) Lic. Gustavo Diaz Ordaz Earth Day – Celebrating 20 Years of Investing in International Airport in Mexico, beginning in November 2015. Sustainability "Our new daily flight from the 1995 – DIA opens as one of the most environmentally conscious airports in the world. Rockies to the Mexican Pacific Jeppesen Terminal's translucent roof allows daylight into the structure, reducing coastline will give our Colorado lighting needs; specially built deicing pads collect most deicing fluid runoff, which is customers as well as recycled at an on-site plant instead of discharged as wastewater connecting passengers quick access to another international 2001 – The Clean Cities National Partner Award is presented to DIA for its use of destination," said Steven alternative fuel vehicles Swan, Southwest Airlines director of international 2004 – DIA extends its spent deicing fluid collection infrastructure to taxiway and planning. "We expect strong runway areas (DIA has an industry-leading deicing fluid collection rate of 75 percent demand from both leisure and [2013-14], with 74 percent of collected fluid recycled) business customers for this route to the growing region 2004 – DIA becomes the first commercial-air-service airport in North America to have that straddles both Jalisco and an internationally certified Environmental Management System covering all operations Nayarit." 2004 – Colorado's Environmental Leadership Program recognizes DIA as a Gold Level This will be Southwest's third member (which has continued for 10 years) Mexico destination from DEN. The carrier also flies to San 2007 – The airport's recycling program, which was begun at Stapleton moves to single- José del Cabo and Cancún. stream recycling (currently recycling 2,000 tons of plastic, wood, cardboard and aluminum annually) http://business.flydenver.com/info/news/publications/wingtips/2015AprLarge.html[4/27/2015 3:56:54 PM] WingTips April 2015 2008 – The first of four on-airport solar arrays is commissioned by DIA 2010 – A composting program begins at DIA (100 tons of organic waste composted Contributors annually) Laura Coale – Writer 2013 – DIA becomes the first commercial airport to design a comprehensive plan of Wes Friednash – Writer Area Navigation (RNAV). The FAA estimates that the new RNAV procedures for arriving Steve Klodt – Chief Editor aircraft into Denver will save each flight 14 to 21 gallons of fuel Heath Montgomery – Writer 2014 – A savings of $327,000 in electricity costs per year is achieved when DIA replaces Ken Mostek - Photographer 5,400 parking garage lights with energy-efficient LED fixtures Denver International Airport's Environmental Services staff celebrated Earth Day on April 22 (the day's 45th anniversary) with displays that highlighted the airport's sustainability initiatives over the last 20 years and with some earth-friendly handouts. DIA to Double Number of Its Electric Vehicle Charging Stations Ten new electric vehicle charging stations will be installed this fall in the west parking garage, doubling the number of DIA's charging stations, which are free to customers who pay to park in a garage. The new stations will have the airport's first AC Level 2 chargers and are compatible with most electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles. The project will bring DIA's number of publicly available vehicle charging stations to 20. AC Level 2 charges use 240-volt infrastructure and provide up to 20 miles of range per hour of charge time, according to U.S. Department of Energy estimates. The project is partially funded using a grant awarded to DIA from the Charge Ahead Colorado Electric Vehicle and Charging Station grant fund, a program of the Regional Air Quality Council and the Colorado Energy Office. The grant will pay for $32,600 of the estimated $85,000 project. DIA installed five electric vehicle charging stations in both the east and west parking garages in late 2013. Those 10 AC Level 1 stations use 120-volt infrastructure that provides up to five miles of range per hour of charging time. http://business.flydenver.com/info/news/publications/wingtips/2015AprLarge.html[4/27/2015 3:56:54 PM] WingTips April 2015 Great Men and Women of Aviation Bessie Coleman Bessie Coleman, was the first African American woman, and most likely the first black woman in the world, to earn a pilot's license. National Air and Space Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution. SI 88-7993. As a manicurist at White Sox Barber Shop in Chicago, Bessie Coleman was fascinated when people told her stories about pilots' experiences flying during World War I, and she soon wanted to fly herself. Realizing that she had no chance to get into any American flight schools because of her race, she moved to France, where she could enroll in a flight school. By 1921, Coleman was learning to fly a Nieuport Type 82 biplane. Just six months after she started training, Coleman received an international aviation license from the Fédération Aéronatique Internationale, becoming the first African American woman (and probably the first black woman in the world) to receive a pilot's license. http://business.flydenver.com/info/news/publications/wingtips/2015AprLarge.html[4/27/2015 3:56:54 PM] WingTips April 2015 Upon Coleman's return to the United States in 1922, The New York Times covered her arrival, reporting: "Termed by leading French and Dutch aviators one of the best flyers they had seen, Miss Bessie Coleman, said to be the only negro aviatrix in the world, returned from Europe yesterday to give a series of exhibitions in this country. ." Coleman toured the country, flying in airshows and earning money to buy her own planes. She refused to perform unless the audiences were desegregated and everyone attending used the same entrance gates. Unfortunately, Coleman was never able to accomplish her dream of launching a flight school for black students. In Jacksonville, Fla., on the evening of April 30, 1926, Coleman and her mechanic took her newly purchased Curtiss "Jenny" airplane for a test flight ahead of an exhibition scheduled for the next day. The aircraft malfunctioned, and the mechanic, who was piloting the plane, lost control. The aircraft rolled and Coleman fell out of an open cockpit and was killed after falling several hundred feet.