• Robert Gluck has been appointed airport manager at LA/Palmdale Regional Airport, where he will manage day-to-day operation of the facility and oversee its growth and development. The announcement came shortly after scheduled air service at the airport was heralded with the first-ever landing of a commercial jet airliner there, a Bombardier CRJ200 carrying a ceremonial delegation of local politicians and airport authority representatives.

• Earlier this month the British embassy in Hanoi presented the Viet Nam Immigration Department with 40 modern passenger screening devices for the nation’s airports.

• SITA is working with the Airports Authority of India to deploy an additional 17 VHF ground stations at the nation’s airports.

• Air Canada has deployed ARINC iMuse Express portable Internet check-in at its seasonal and Terminal 3 locations at Toronto’s Pearson International.

• Finnair’s January-March 2007 results were more than €10 million US$13.5 million) better than for the same period last year, resulting in a profit of almost €6 million (US$8.1 million).

• SITA and Servisair have formed a partnership to provide airport ground services in Europe and North America for 20 million passengers a year.

• Redevelopment work has begun on Singapore’s Seletar Airport, which is to be transformed into a business aviation and maintenance hub.

• Thirteen U.S. aviation associations have urged the U.S. federal government to implement an increased Passenger Facility Charge to fund airport improvement projects, with a view to reducing passenger delays.

• Fraport AG executive board chairman Dr. Wilhelm Bender has declared that the airport management company’s objective for the coming year is major investment in real estate, to prepare for the development of the Frankfurt Airport City.