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42 airportbusiness February/March 2016 FINAL ANALYSIS $ 2.065 BILLION Amount Signature Flight Support's parent company BBA Aviation, will pay for Landmark Aviation if the transaction to buy it from the Carlyle Group goes through. 762 The number jets delivered by Boeing in 2015; 39 more aircraft than in 2014. $62 MILLION LAMBERT RENOVATION NABS AWARD The multiyear renovation project at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport has won the Engineering News-Record Midwest Best Project of the Year award for airport/transit. Kwame Building Group provided program management for the $62 million renovation. Kwame over- saw and coordinated five design and 10 construction packages to upgrade the airport's main terminal, concourses and baggage-claim areas. Prime architects/engineers on the project included Exp US Services, Burns & McDonnell, Ross & Baruzzini, Kiku Obata, and Apple Design. Prime contractors included C. Rallo Contracting, Collins and Hermann, Kozeny Wagner, Geograph Industries, K&S; Associates, Sign Productions, and Engraphix. Winners of the ENR Best Project awards are selected by juries of prominent regional industry profession- als who evaluate projects based on challenges and teamwork, safety, innovation, contribution to the industry and community, construction quality and craftsmanship, and design functionality and aesthetics. "Over the past 10 years, 60,000 pilots have left the general aviation industry. Meanwhile, the cost of aircraft has risen dramatically and shipments are near an all-time low. General Aviation is vital to our national economy and the future of rural communities. In order for it to grow and prosper, we must reverse this troubling trend." SEN. MORAN ON THE PASSAGE OF S. 571, THE PILOTS' BILL OF RIGHTS 2 75 The number of years the National Air Transportation Association (NATA) has been the Voice of Aviation Business. ARL ANDO S. TELLER Appointed to Arizona State Transportation Board Teller is Program Manager Navajo Division of Transportation ISMAEL L. BONILL A New Director General Mitchell International Airport 50 PERCENT THE DECREASE IN FATALITIES FROM U.S.-REGISTERED BUSINESS JET ACCIDENTS IN 2015. "Somewhere in the pricing chain the weakest link must give. It's academic that airports should charge leasehold fees, and FBOs should charge parking fees. It would seem logical that end-users — aircraft operators — should expect to pay handling fees, parking fees or both. And yet, that notion is the source of a very real debate. It is no small irony that debate takes place below an FAA defined imaginary surface." — EXCERPT FROM "BEST PRACTICES IN FBO MANAGEMENT" BY DOUGLAS WILSON, FBO PARTNERS LLC