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What makes an airport 'important'?

Posted on May 25, 2007 by David Megginson

If you were building a mapping application that could show only (say) 20 airports on the screen at once at any given zoom level, how would you decide which airports are most important, using only publicly-available data sets? Here are … Continue reading →

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Canadian Airport Data in a Spreadsheet

Posted on June 23, 2005 by David Megginson

As I’ve mentioned before, I’m often frustrated at the lack of freely-available data for Canadian airports and airspace (and stung by the irony that most of what is available comes from the U.S.). Over the past couple of years, I’ve … Continue reading →

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NATCA vs. Nav Canada

Posted on April 25, 2005 by David Megginson

[Updating: on guessing — see below] The National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA) — the non-union union representing U.S. air traffic controllers — attacked plans to privatize the U.S. air traffic control system with the following statement: Cleveland controllers alone … Continue reading →

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