Corporate Chicago-Romeoville (KLOT) Expands Hangar To Meet Demands For Chicagoland Airspace Relief

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Growing demand for convenient alternatives to Chicagoland’s O’Hare and Midway airports has turned Chicago-Romeoville (KLOT) into a bona fide airspace reliever, as the fixed base operator readies to double the size of its corporate aircraft storage and maintenance facility this May.
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NBAA Welcomes FAA Delay For ATC Tower Closures

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National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) President and CEO Ed Bolen today issued the following statement regarding an announcement from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) that the agency would delay the closure of 149 contract air traffic control towers until June 15, in order to provide time to further examine considerations related to the closures.
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New Series: FBO Survival - Survival Tip #1: Keep Your Customers Close...and Your Margins Closer

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By Ron Jackson and John Enticknap, Aviation Business Strategies Group

Welcome to the first installment of our new AC-U-KWIK FBO Connection Series: FBO Survival. This series will focus on the various strategies and tactics needed to survive the daily rigors of running a successful FBO operation.

Our first survivor tip, ‘Keep Your Customers Close … and Your Margins Closer’, is inspired by dialogue in the film, The Godfather: Part II. It means, in order to survive today’s economic FBO climate, you need to focus on your two most important revenue generators: your valued customers and your fuel margins.

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