Still, with the airport's new $200 million terminal scheduled to open this spring, Bradley is still discussing with Transportation Security Administration officials whether it will have to build a separate building to screen baggage, which could delay the opening and increase the cost.
Planners say the terminal, scheduled for completion in 2015, will serve 45 million passengers a year, eliminate 8,000 automobile trips daily, and offer a mass-transit link between San Francisco to Silicon Valley, the other economic engine in the Bay Area.
The new terminal, scheduled to be built over five years, would serve as the anchor of a dense, dynamic neighborhood that would be filled with a mix of housing and skyscrapers.
This new program is on top of an already planned $128 million upgrading of Changi's first and second terminals and the ongoing $833 million construction of a third terminal, scheduled for completion in 2006 all told, new funding will top $1 billion for the next few years.
The plane pushed back from the terminal on schedule at 8 30 a.m., but was in line behind 11 others.
In the mid 80's, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority introduced performance standards for its agencies, and one of the key measures was on-time performance, including leaving the terminal on schedule.
Though there are concerns about reports of some glitches that may not yet be worked out in the new high-technology baggage-handling system, Northwest is opening the terminal on schedule and banking its image on it.
BA223, it transpired, departed after only a relatively short delay, but it left what seemed like most of its passengers behind: by the time they were admitted to the terminal the schedule and crews' rosters obliged it to take-off.
Work on Atlantic Terminal is scheduled to begin next month, with completion scheduled for March 2004.
Because of the complexity of container terminal operations, scheduling problems in a particular area are investigated to simplify the scheduling of the overall terminal (Geerlings et al. 2018).
