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INDUSTRY NEWS 8 airportbusiness June/July 2015 METROPOLITAN AIRPORTS COMMISSION … Approves raising airport wages to at least $10 an hour. OCALA CITY COUNCIL … Hires Sheltair Aviation to run Ocala International Airport, tripling the city's lease income and ben- efiting from millions of dollars' worth of upgrades. The council agreed to a 30-year lease with Fort Lauderdale-based Sheltair Aviation, O'HARE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT … Boosts its on-time arrival and departure rates for two consecutive months. PHILADELPHIA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT … And the airlines will pay workers $12 per hour as part of a new lease agreement. PORT COLUMBUS INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT … Installs FuelRod kiosks to provide these grab- and-go portable chargers for its travelers. PORTLAND INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT … Adds eight BorderXpress Automated Passport Control kiosks to reduce waiting times at its International Arrivals Hall. RICKENBACKER INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT … Begins work to construct a new state-of-the-art air traffic control tower to replace the 1950s-era tower currently in operation. SACRAMENTO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT … Launches a $5 million-plus "extreme makeover" of the food service and passenger waiting areas on the upper level of Terminal A. SOUTHWEST AIRLINES ... Flew one of its passengers home to Denver, Colo., for free after she learned during a recent trip that her son was in a coma. SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS AIRPORT … Celebrates 50 years with Phillips 66 Aviation and renews its fuel contract. TSA … Reassigns acting administrator, Melvin Carraway, to a different job in the Department of Homeland Security and appoints Acting Deputy Director Mark Hatfield as interim administrator. UNITED AIRLINES … Broke ground on its new Terminal C North concourse at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston. US AIRWAYS … Leaves Piedmont Triad International Airport after decades of service. DFW Airport Completes Advanced New Parking Facility for Terminal A Customers Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) Airport has completed the new Terminal A parking structure, giving airport customers more than 7,500 parking spaces and a host of new conveniences wrapped inside a significantly upgraded parking experience. Highlighting the garage features is DFW's Parking Guidance System, which uses overhead lights and electronic signs to guide motorists to open spaces on each level of the five-story structure. The Parking Guidance System features advanced wayfinding signage and over- head lights over each parking space that glow green when available, blue for spaces for the disabled, white for valet spaces and red over spaces that are filled. The Terminal A parking structure also added covered walkways to the ter- minal, brighter lighting, eleva- tors and newly designed roads into and out of the terminal complex that reduce congestion. The new structure now holds 7,576 parking spaces, giving Terminal A parking more capacity than the three parking garages it replaced and bringing the total number of on-airport spaces to 42,000. The official DFW airport mobile app, along with DFW airport's web site and mobile site all include information and up-to-the-minute space availability reports about the new Terminal A parking structure. The 2.9 million-square-foot Terminal A parking structure is part of DFW's Terminal Renewal and Improvement Program (TRIP), the seven-year $2.7 billion program that is renewing DFW's four orig- inal terminals. Renovation work on Terminal A should be complete later this year, while work on Terminals B and E should conclude in 2016. The new Terminal A parking facility is the largest new structure built at DFW since Terminal D and Skylink opened in 2005, and is one of the largest parking facilities in Texas. Terminal A parking facility amenities include: • 7,576 parking spaces on five levels covering over 3 million square feet • Enhanced terminal entries including covered walkways • DFW's Parking Guidance System to help customers easily find an open space using overhead lights and electronic wayfinding signs • A more brightly lit parking environment • Higher clearances to accommodate ADA accessible vehicles • Vertical accessibility and ADA compliance via new passenger elevators • Innovative new roadway design which reduces the need for lane changes and separates arrivals traffic from departures traffic • Spiraled helix roads for easy access to all five parking levels