There are 13 article(s) tagged Terry Blue:

• October 2024

  • Aviation intel: Memphis airport tour takes you behind scenes, across fields

    The airport is building a better understanding, one person at a time, on what it takes to expand and add cities. 

    By Jane Roberts October 26, 2024

• September 2024

  • KQ Communications lands airport marketing contract

    The airport also plans to bid out work that would mark every open parking space with a green light. 

    By Jane Roberts September 19, 2024

• August 2024

  • Filling a hole: Airport’s never-used tram tunnel to be sealed

    The airport is about to start on the largest modernization project in its history. But first, it needs to fill a little-known tunnel, 25 feet wide, 12 feet high and 1,500 feet long, under baggage claim. 

    By Jane Roberts August 27, 2024

• June 2024

  • Airport honors ‘Cuz Craig,’ the officer with a heart

    A parent who dropped a son off last week for a flight to boot camp was grateful for officer Craig Elliott’s pep talk, and typed it all out in an email to airport authorities. 

    By Jane Roberts June 21, 2024

• May 2024

  • Memphis International raising airline rents and landing fees by almost half

    Expiring COVID-19 pandemic grants and inflation force higher costs on airlines, but ticket prices aren’t expected to rise.

    By Jane Roberts May 16, 2024

• March 2024

  • Airport in for a whole lotta shaking in $665 million terminal upgrade

    Passenger counts were up 19.2% in 2023, a record year at Memphis International Airport, and there’s talk of possible new flights (think Raleigh-Durham, perhaps San Francisco).

    By Jane Roberts March 28, 2024

  • Parking hike at airport funding high-tech upgrades like smart signs

    Worried about finding a space? You may soon be able to see it and pay in advance. 

    By Jane Roberts March 22, 2024

• February 2024

  • January winter weather cost airport $3.4 million in snow removal, de-icing

    “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. 

    By Jane Roberts February 16, 2024

• December 2023

  • Miami firm gets airport design job that will grow to at least $15M

    No local architects or engineers bid, and Memphis-Shelby County Airport Authority commissioners are asking why.

    By Jane Roberts December 21, 2023

• September 2023

  • Airport Authority approves CEO contract, increased parking rates

    The board approved increasing parking lot rates to fund the parking enhancement program, estimated to cost $8 to $10 million.

    By Sophia Surrett September 21, 2023

• July 2023

  • Airport Authority approves nearly $50M for new development projects

    The bulk of that went to approve a proposal of more than $44 million for the reconstruction of the west half of the Taxiway Alpha at Memphis International Airport.

    By Rob Moore July 20, 2023

• April 2023

  • Airport taps new CEO

    The Memphis-Shelby County Airport Authority has selected an in-house candidate to become its new president and CEO after Scott Brockman retires. 

    By The Daily Memphian Staff April 27, 2023

• December 2020

  • Memphis airport rolls out COVID-19 testing program

    Memphis International Airport employees are being tested for COVID-19 each day they work at the airport, as part of an assurance testing program that the airport hopes to expand.

    By Wayne Risher December 17, 2020