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FINALANALYSIS "If you think aviation changed during the last halfcentury, just sit back and wait. I really believe the next 50 years will change more than the last 50 years as the world grows smaller and the possibilities grow larger." ▲ RALPH HOOD, CERTIFIED SPEAKING PROFESSIONAL; MEMBER OF ALABAMA AVIATION HALL OF FAME A BREATH OF FRESH AIR New Associate Publisher, Aircraft Maintenance Technology and Airport Business magazines, Cygnus Business Media ▲ For most of the jet age, passenger cabins have been cooled by a plane's auxiliary-power engine, which burns jet fuel while the plane is serviced at the gate, or by a portable generator wheeled alongside. Either way exhaust hovered on the tarmac. But folks traveling through Seattle-Tacoma International Airport can now breathe easier, with cleaner, greener air inside. The airport recently launched a new "preconditioned air" network that cools (or heats) at a central plant then pumps treated air through hoses directly into the plane. The system, used at 29 gates currently with all 73 gates being supplied by year's end, not only improves the air passengers are breathing in but reduces fuel consumption 40 to 100 gallons at each layover because planes don't supply their own energy. KAREN BERG ABE WEBER New director, Outagamie County Regional Airport in Appleton, Wis. 21,000 THE FAA GRANT BESTOWED UPON SPOKANE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT FOR A NEW AIRCRAFT RESCUE AND FIREFIGHTING FACILITY. $7 MILLION The number of travelers the TSA estimates will send in their information to participate in the Department of Homeland Security Traveler Redress Inquiry Program (TRIP). 26% The gap between Alaska Air Group, the most fuel efficient airline, and Allegiant Travel, the least fuel efficient airline, according to a study by the International Council on Clean Transportation. NOVEMBER 25 Date U.S. District Court Judge has set for the trial over the proposed U.S. Airways-American Airlines merger 38 airportbusiness October 2013