More specifically, it addresses: (i) how the economic literature deals with potential competition among different airports, and how this competition was dealt with in the concession programs of Australia, Mexico and the United Kingdom; and (ii) Brazil's recent experience with airport concessions, where international benchmarking led to cross-ownership restrictions.
The terminal, which is operated by Air France, Japan Airlines, Korean Air and Lufthansa, also received an award for best redeveloped concessions program, given for its "nice mix of stores" and good layout.
The 27 aviation experts who served as judges for the annual contest gave Terminal 1 of Kennedy Airport the top prize for best concessions program design for a small airport (since the terminal has less than four million departing passengers annually, it officially qualifies as "small"), noting its "excellent architecture" and "great public spaces".
HARTFORD — Moving from Gorilla A to Gorilla B, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy on Wednesday signed into law a $40.1 billion budget that includes the largest tax increase in Connecticut history, then headed toward a Friday target for extracting $1 billion in annual wage and benefit concessions and program cuts from more than 45,000 state employees.
His footnotes were sharp-elbowed, too, noting sarcastically that the government's concession that the program is only "sometimes" useful was "candor as refreshing as it is rare".
The project is funded through a combination of National Park Service appropriations and the park Concession Franchise Fee program.
It is difficult to read the politics in Tehran, but we are certain that hard-liners will try to sabotage any opening that would require making concessions on either program.
But Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, said he would prefer not to make such concessions in a program that provides health insurance to virtually all the elderly, regardless of income.
Every spring, Rivera adheres to his own program, a concession to his age (41) and the 1,2892/3 innings logged by his right arm over 16 seasons, including playoffs.
Savings from health and retirement programs, a concession from Democrats necessary to sell tax hikes to GOP lawmakers.
