Entrepreneurs sought to solve Memphis’ transportation issues
The Ford Urbanite Memphis Challenge welcomes local and national entrepreneurs on any level who can solve Memphis’ transportation challenges.
The Ford Urbanite Memphis Challenge welcomes local and national entrepreneurs on any level who can solve Memphis’ transportation challenges.
Locals on board United Airlines flight 2477 heard a loud crash when a wheel hit the edge of the Houston runway. “It is the only time I’ve ever been in a plane where people were actually screaming.”
FedEx says the request is inappropriate and blames changes in union leadership for hindering progress.
Sunday is expected to be busier than heaviest Christmastime travel day. Memphis International Airport officials warn to plan ahead.
Based in Tacoma, Washington, Stellar Industrial Supply distributes more than 90,000 maintenance, repair and operation products and tools from more than 1,500 brands for metalworking, safety, marine supply and other industries.
The airport will offer comprehensive tours on the last Thursday of the month, March through October.
The project, which will be built at the 3,600-acre Chickasaw Trails Industrial Park on the Mississippi-Tennessee state line, is pending approval by Mississippi officials, sources said.
Airport Authority officials are monitoring the weather and will activate the consolidated deicing facility or deploy snow and ice removal equipment if expected winter precipitation arrives.
The airport’s deicing facility is active, and airlines are performing deicing operations as needed.
The University of Memphis’ Center for Applied Earth Science has hired a professor known for using data to guide long-term planning for infrastructure.
In a leaked recording, a FedEx vice president tells pilots a new contract with the U.S. Postal Service will eliminate daytime flights in 29 cities.
There’s an industry push for planes only requiring one pilot in the cockpit at cruising altitudes, but pilots say doing so creates a safety issue.
Funds will be divided between three local airports, with the lion’s share going to Memphis International Airport’s terminal modernization project.
The service will operate three days a week from March 7 to April 9.
The additional flights, though seasonal, will give Memphis International Airport more connectivity to the western part of the U.S.
“We have a snow operations desk that was open throughout the entire week. It’s an all-hands-on-deck approach,” airport spokesman Glen Thomas said of the airport authority’s roughly 300 total employees. Many slept at the airport during the week.
Jenifer Hollander comes from New York-based Teneo’s Strategy & Communications Advisory.
For two decades, the city’s return on its investment into the overnight river cruise industry has gone up and down — and it looks to be falling again.
The closures are expected to begin at 8 a.m. and last the full day of their respective date.