The Pulse Report 
Informing Airport Finance Professionals
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| FEBRUARY 2009 |
Dear ,
Welcome to the February 2009 edition of the PASSUR® Pulse™ Airport Finance eNewsletter created exclusively for the PASSUR Pulse community.  We hope you're considering joining us in Dallas on March 23 for the annual PASSUR Landing Fee Management Users' Conference. See below for just a few of the agenda highlights and to find out if you qualify to attend. In this month's newsletter, you'll also find direct comments from air carriers on why they support the new approach to landing fees. And, thanks to your feedback, we have a product enhancement to announce as well. If you have any ideas or questions, please send them to me, Ron Dunsky at rondunsky@passur.com. |
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Airlines Speak About Why They Support Collaborative Landing Fee Management
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Last month we talked about why airlines have been supportive of the new approach to landing fees. Now listen to how the carriers themselves describe it:
"It has made the landing fee process a lot easier and more accurate," says Sue McFeeley of British Airways. "It takes me a quarter of the time it used to, to manage this program. The biggest thing is the capture of the tail number per flight, which gives us the confidence in the accuracy and detail of the report, and requires minimal checking."
According to John Palomaro of JetBlue Airways: "Before this program it was almost a three- to four-day process to look at everything, with the 60 plus flights a day we have. Now it's about a two-hour process. All I'm looking for are anomalies."
Linda Chamberlain of Delta Air Lines adds: "The monthly reports we log on to get actually give us more overall performance statistics than we were getting before on our own, and with much less effort from our staff. We trust the data and the process."
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NEW! Easier Invoicing for Non-Scheduled and General Aviation Operations
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You've been asking for it, so we're pleased to announce that you can now download an invoice in  the PASSUR Proactive Billing suite directly from the "Edit Invoice" to MS Excel. Previously, you had to switch back to the "View Invoice" menu, and we know that wasn't ideal.
This is particularly helpful in allowing users to download and sort through the new catch-all invoice, labeled "123" in the "Edit Invoice" drop-down menu. This invoice captures all flights not already allocated to another carrier or operator, such as diversions from non-tenant carriers and General Aviation. As a reminder, any flights listed in the "123" invoice can be transferred to any other carrier/operator invoices for billing. Each airport has an empty invoice labeled "ZZZ" for which you can transfer flights into for billing and uploading to your accounting software.
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Highlights From the Preliminary Agenda for the 2009 Annual PASSUR Pulse Landing Fee Management Users' Conference, March 23 in Dallas
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The PASSUR Landing Fee Management Users' Conference is right around the corner, so we thought we'd give you a preview of what we have in store for you when you arrive. Here are some highlights from the preliminary agenda:
Roundtable Discussion: Best Practices for Managing Landing Fees in the Current
Challenging Economic Environment
Speaker: Deadra Hodges, Denver International Airport
Moderator: Lenonna Nichols, DFW Airport
Panel Discussion: Exploring New Revenue Streams for Airports
Panelists:
Max Underwood, VP Finance, DFW Airport
Steve Gordon, Airport Business Manager, Oakland Int'l Airport
Raul Fernandez, CEO, D.R. Fernandez & Associates LLC, Management Consultants
Mark O'Connor, Information Management and Technology Group, Office of
ITS Enterprise Architecture, Los Angeles World Airports (Invited)
Roundtable Discussion: Alternate Uses of Data
Speaker: Catherine Robinton, Massport/Boston Logan International Airport
Moderator: Dina Reed, Detroit/Wayne County Airport Authority (Invited)
For more information on the 2009 user conference, and to find out if you qualify to attend, please email Evan Danto at evan.j.danto@passur.com.
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