Name: RDU CEO: Wear a mask so people feel safe to fly again
Uploaded: 2020-10-01T20:27:00-0400
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Description: Michael Landguth, president and chief executive of Raleigh-Durham International Airport, said leisure travel is starting to rebound amid the coronavirus pandemic, but the airport is still waiting for business travelers to return.

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<p>ON RECESS TOMORROW. THROUGH NOVEMBER. BACK TO YOU. &gt;&gt; A LOT TO WATCH, PINK SLIPS RIPPLING THROUGH THE AIRLINES WILL IMPACT HUNDREDS OF EMPLOYEES BASED IN THE TRIANGLE. &gt;&gt;&gt; AFTER PEAKING AT A 97% LOSS IN THE YEAR-TO-YEAR TRAFFIC IN APRIL, A SLIGHT REBOUND AS MORE PEOPLE TRAVEL BUT IT COULD TAKE YEARS TO GET BACK TO NORMAL. THE PRESIDENT AND CEO JOINS US NOW LIVE TO TALK ABOUT THE IMPACT AND THE CHALLENGES AHEAD, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING US. &gt;&gt; THANK YOU FOR JOINING ME. &gt;&gt; HUNDREDS OF AMERICAN AIRLINE LAYOFFS IMPACTED EMPLOYEES BASED HERE. WE KNOW THESE ARE NOT EMPLOYEES ON THE RDU PAYROLL. TO HAVE AN EXACT NEVER FROM THE AIRLINES OF THE IMPACT HERE? BUT NO, THEY HAVE NOT PROVIDED US THE EXACT NUMBERS. WHAT WE HAVE SEEN GLOBALLY IS THAT THIS COULD BE UPWARDS OF 100,000 EMPLOYEES NATIONWIDE FURLOUGHED AS A RESULT OF NOT GETTING ADDITIONAL RELIEF FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. &gt;&gt; WOW. THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT THAT RIGHT NOW AS MARK WAS JUST SAYING. HOW ABOUT THE AIRPORT AUTHORITY ITSELF? HOW MANY ARE ON THE PAYROLL? HAVE ANY OF THOSE EMPLOYEES BEEN AFFECTED? &gt;&gt; RIGHT NOW, WE HAVE ABOUT 340 FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES ON THE PAYROLL. WE HAVE NOT LAID OFF ANY OF OUR EMPLOYEES AND THE GOAL IS TO CONTINUE TO KEEP THEM EMPLOYED. WE HAVE BEEN VERY LUCKY TO GET ASSISTANCE FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IN THE FORM OF WHAT THEY CALL THE CARES ACT, OVER $49 MILLION WHICH HAS ALLOWED US TO PAY EMPLOYEES AND KEEP THE LIGHTS ON. IT IS TRULY A SURVIVAL BUDGET AT THIS POINT IN TIME. THE REVENUE WE COLLECT FOR THE UPCOMING YEAR, WHAT WE PROJECT WILL BARELY PAY OPERATING EXPENSES AND WILL NOT EVEN COVER DEBT SERVICE. THERE IS SIGNIFICANT CHALLENGES IN THIS INDUSTRY, WHETHER IT'S THE AIRLINE INDUSTRY LOSING ALIENS OF DOLLARS EACH QUARTER OR THE AIRPORTS LOSING MILLIONS OF DOLLARS AS THEY MOVE FORWARD. IT'S A VERY CHALLENGING TIME. I DO NOT THINK ANYBODY PROJECTED HOW DEEP AND LONG THIS HAS GONE ON FOR THIS PARTICULAR INDUSTRY. &gt;&gt; YOU ARE EXPECTING FEDERAL MONEY IT SOUNDS LIKE IF YOU DO NOT RECEIVE IT, DO YOU EXPECT TO HAVE LAYOFFS OR FURLOUGHS IN YOUR FUTURE WITH THE AIRPORT AUTHORITY? &gt;&gt; I THINK IT'S PREMATURE FOR US TO TALK ABOUT WHAT WILL HAPPEN IN YEAR ONE OR TWO OR THREE. THE NEXT 12 MONTHS I THINK WE HAVE DONE A VERY GOOD JOB OF KEEPING EXPENSES AND CONTROL AND WE HAVE GOOD RESERVES. BUT IT IS NOT SUSTAINABLE FOR THE LONG-TERM. THAT IS WHY WE KEEP ECHOING TO CONGRESS TO COME TOGETHER WITH A SOLUTION. TO TRY TO PROTECT JOBS. TRY TO PROTECT AIRLINE JOBS. ALL OF THE PEOPLE IN THE INDUSTRY, THEY ARE VALUABLE AND THEY CREATE A HUGE ECONOMIC ENGINE FOR THE REGION AND THE COUNTRY. I AM JUST TRYING TO ASK ELECTED OFFICIALS TO CONTINUE TO WORK TOWARDS A SOLUTION TO TRY TO HELP PROTECT THE INDUSTRY. &gt;&gt; YOU CONDUCTED A SURVEY RECENTLY OF CUSTOMERS THAT CAME FOR THE AIRPORTS DURING THE PANDEMIC. WHAT DID YOU LEARN? &gt;&gt; CUSTOMERS STARTED TO UNDERSTAND THE THINGS WE PUT IN PLACE. SO, SIGNAGE ABOUT SOCIAL DISTANCING AND WEARING A MASK, HAND SANITIZER, ALL OF THE THINGS WE ARE DOING TO CLEAN THE FACILITY ITSELF. PEOPLE UNDERSTOOD THAT AND ARE EDUCATED AND GOT TO SEE IT AND WERE 83% WERE COMFORTABLE FLYING THROUGH THE FACILITY. THE OTHER THING WE LEARNED IN THE SURVEY IS CUSTOMERS TOLD US THE THING WE CAN DO, TO HELP TO COME IS TO ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO WEAR A MASK WHEN THEY MOVE THROUGH THE FACILITY, THAT IS THE NUMBER ONE THING ALL OF THE CUSTOMERS CAME BACK AND SAID, WEAR A MASK IN THE AIRPORTS. THEY WOULD FEEL CONFIDENCE TO FLY. WE ENCOURAGE CUSTOMERS, PLEASE, WHEN YOU COME INTO THE AIRPORTS, WEAR A FACEMASK WHEN YOU FLY. &gt;&gt; QUICKLY, OBVIOUSLY, WE ARE HEADING INTO THE HOLIDAY SEASON. HOW ARE YOU LOOKING AT THE FOURTH QUARTER? WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST CONCERN AS WE GO TOWARDS THE HOLIDAYS? &gt;&gt; THE BIGGEST CONCERN IS OF COURSE AMERICAN AIRLINES ANNOUNCED THE RETURN OF SERVICE IN OCTOBER THIS YEAR. BECAUSE OF THE POOR BOOKINGS, THEY HAVE DECIDED TO PUSH THAT OUT INTO THE MARCH TIMEFRAME. THE BIGGEST CONCERN IS THE RETURN OF THE BUSINESS TRAVELER. WE ARE NOT SEEING THE BUSINESS TRAVELER. THE GLIMMER OF HOPE WE ARE SEEING IS WE ARE SEEING THE LEISURE MARKET STARTING TO COME BACK. WE HAD A REALLY NICE ANNOUNCEMENT BY JETBLUE WITH FIVE NEW NONSTOP CITIES. FORTUNE REALLY DOMINATED BY LEISURE, PROVIDING GREAT OPPORTUNITIES DURING THE HOLIDAYS. THINK ACTUALLY TRAVEL TO THESE DESTINATIONS AND HOPEFULLY GET A LITTLE REST AND RELAXATION AS WELL AS FIGHT THE PANDEMIC. &gt;&gt; THAT SOUNDS WONDERFUL. THE PRESIDENT AND CEO OF RDU. GOOD LUCK AND WE WISH YOU WELL</p>

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Brian Shrader flies over the site of a plane crash at Raleigh-Durham International Airport approximately three hours after the accident.

Seen some activity just in the past 10 minutes or so. I want to take you outside Sky five right now for a live look at the scene. We saw a van being escorted to the runway there and someone got out and now there appears to be a really careful inspection of the debris going on. So we're working to confirm if that may be the NTSB investigation team arriving at the scene. Let's zoom out and give you some about where this is. There are two main runways at RDU International and this is in the grassy field next to the runway that mostly serves terminal one on the east side of the airport, that runway remains closed while this investigation continues at the top of your screen. That is the other main runway that serves terminal two, mostly that runway is open. So we have two things going on here that could affect your flights for the rest of the day and maybe even into tomorrow, the airport takeoff and landing capacity is roughly reduced by half because they are only working with one runway. And if you have a flight coming out of terminal one, maybe Southwest, you're going to have to take that crossover all the way out to that other runway. It's going to add a lot of extra time.

Sky 5 flies over RDU plane crash 3 hours later 

A UNC Health physician and pilot were taken to the hospital Wednesday after a small plane crashed at Raleigh-Durham International Airport (RDU).


Sky 5 flies over plane crash at RDU

RDU Airport Authority gives an update on a plane crash that sent a physician and pilot to the hospital. The crash occurred Wednesday morning on a flight that took off from Wilmington.

<p>Landguth first, I want to extend my thoughts to those affected by this morning's aircraft accident and thank our first responders for their quick action to respond. The airport authority and its mutual aid partners responded to an aircraft accident at RDU involving a general aviation aircraft. The accident occurred at approximately 10:10 a.m. in the grass next to runway five, right 23 left. The flight was arriving from Wilmington, North Carolina. The A the aircraft is owned by medical Air Inc and operated by UN C air operations. The aircraft had two people on board, one pilot and one passenger. Both were transported to area hospitals. The federal A Bush administration issued a ground stop that was lifted at approximately 1130 this morning. The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board have both been notified. The National Transportation Safety Board is en route and expected to arrive within the next hour at which time we will conduct an accident investigation. Rdu's runway five left 23 right reopened to departing and arriving aircraft around 11:30 a.m. this morning. Are you experiencing approximately 70 delays and several arriving flights were diverted to other airports? Until ground stock was lifted, travelers should contact their airline for the latest updates regarding the flight status. And of course questions about the identity and condition of the pilot and passenger should be directed to UN C health. And at this time I'll try to answer any questions. You may have, uh, the one, any other accidents in, in the past. I'm not familiar with any other accidents have occurred with that operation. I don't know, uh, that's the role of the National Transportation Safety Board. They'll actually come in and do the investigation. Uh, and at some point in the future, they write up a report and determine what the cause of the accident was. You know, that there was no notification to the airport authority or to the FAA uh about any type of emergency on board. Do we have a guy? We don't, all we know that we've got them out of the airplane and we've got them transported to local hospitals. We know situations like this and delays have a ripple effect on, you know, flights. Do you have any idea what type of impact we'll see here in our view and for not sure, but what we're going to encourage everybody to do is reach out to your airlines. We'll be able to give you real time information about the impact of your particular flight. Ok. I believe some of them went to Greensboro and I think a couple went to Charlotte as well. What, what to be impacted due to the NTSD. Say that one more time at this point in time, what we call the west side of our airport is now open the investigation they'll conduct will all be on the east side. So at this point, we are anticipating normal operations returning to normal operations from this point forward. I don't think that anything that they're doing regarding the investigation or where they would have to investigate would have any impact to the west side of the airport. No, the aircraft is still on the airfield itself. It's on the east side of the field. So terminal one that runways the east side of the field, that's where the debris field actually sits, the west side of the field is open and operational and safe to operate. Not that I'm aware of in operations for you throughout this event today. What was your main concern concerning the passengers that were in the internals? Right. I think our primary focus when, when that accident occurred were the two people sitting in that aircraft? Our primary mission is to make sure we can get to them and try to rescue them and try to make sure that we can get them in a safe condition as fast as we possibly can. Uh secondarily is trying to figure out then how we recover and get our operations back up and running. Mhm. How does that affect? What goes on term? Yeah, so great. Question. So the team has figured out a way to get all the aircraft they're gonna operate at terminal one. Your Southwest develops. Uh We've got a crossover taxi way that we can actually get them through our general aviation aircraft. We've got a crossover taxiway, we can get them to. But the rest of the uh accident scene is actually kind of isolated and closed and locked off. Yeah, you're terminal one at this point in time. Once they can get back on their schedule, it's going to be a normal operations. All right. Thank you guys. All right. Thank you. Grab your phone, right.</p>

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