Flight Radar 24 Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport

AZA / KIWA   

Phoenix Mesa Gateway Airport

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KIWA 210147Z 23006KT 45SM BKN150 BKN250 43/05 A2977

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 Phoenix–Mesa Gateway Airport

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"AZA" redirects here. For other uses, see AZA (disambiguation).

Phoenix–Mesa Gateway Airport (IATA: AZA, ICAO: KIWA, FAA LID: IWA), formerly Williams Gateway Airport (1994–2008) and Williams Air Force Base (1941–1993), is in the southeastern area of Mesa, Arizona, and 20 miles (32 km) southeast of Phoenix, in Maricopa County, Arizona.^[1] The airport is owned and operated by the Phoenix–Mesa Gateway Airport Authority, and is a reliever airport for Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. It is a focus city for Allegiant Air. The airport authority is governed by a six-member board: the mayors and tribal governor of the town of Gilbert, city of Mesa, town of Queen Creek, Gila River Indian Community, city of Phoenix, and the city of Apache Junction.^[2]
The FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2007–2011 called Phoenix–Mesa Gateway a reliever airport, which is a general aviation airport used to relieve congestion at a large airline airport.^[3] Allegiant Air began scheduled service from Mesa in October 2007.^[4] Phoenix Mesa Gateway Airport records say the airport had 1,242,237 passenger boardings (or approx. 621,000 enplanements) in calendar year 2014.
Most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, but Phoenix–Mesa Gateway Airport has different codes for each. The aviation community generally uses the FAA code of IWA, while commercial passenger flight organizations use the IATA code of AZA.^[5]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix%E2%80%93Mesa_Gateway_Airport

Top destinations

Busiest domestic routes from AZA (Dec 2014 – Nov 2015)^[11]

Rank	City	Passengers	Carriers
1	Provo, Utah	33,000	Allegiant
2	Sioux Falls, South Dakota	31,000	Allegiant
3	Fargo, North Dakota	29,000	Allegiant
4	Bellingham, Washington	28,000	Allegiant
5	Cedar Rapids, Iowa	26,000	Allegiant
6	Minot, North Dakota	21,000	Allegiant
6	Bismarck, North Dakota	21,000	Allegiant
8	Oakland, California	20,000	Allegiant
8	Las Vegas, Nevada	20,000	Allegiant
8	Rapid City, South Dakota	20,000	Alleging

Future plans
One of the biggest issues at IWA is the increase in passengers since Allegiant Air started operations. IWA did not anticipate this growth within the first year. Due to the increase from 14,588 enplanements in 2007 to 159,481 in 2008, facilities were becoming crowded. To alleviate this problem, extensive renovations and expansions have been completed, adding nearly 70,000 square feet of new space within the terminal. This added eight gates since IWA was established in 1994. The Airport broke ground on a final expansion plan in early 2013, to increase gates to ten. However, IWA is running out of real estate on the west side of the airfield, which will bring a halt to expansions until the east terminal facilities are complete
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Welcoming Weather to Flightradar24

Posted on: 2016-06-20 /

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We’re excited to announce that multiple weather layers are now available in Flightradar24!
We’ve added layers for clouds, precipitation, lightning, volcanic eruptions, Airmets/Sigmets, and high level significant weather forecasts.
The current weather at over 3000 airports remains available as well.
All of the weather layers are now available on the Weather tab in Settings on Flightradar24.com. Weather layers will be coming to our mobile apps in the next major release, which we’re working very hard to finalize soon.
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High level significant weather charts, also available to users with a Business subscription, offer 24 hour forecasts for significant weather phenomena at six-hour intervals for flight levels FL250 to FL630 (25,000-63,000 feet). Especially of interest in these charts is the position and speed of the jet stream, which influences which oceanic tracks are used. High Level Significant Weather charts also include information on thunderstorms and cumulonimbus clouds, moderate or severe turbulence, tropopause heights, and volcanic eruptions.
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NEWS  

June 19th, 2016 | Written by Peter Buxbaum   

Global Growth Forecast Again Revised Lower

World Bank Downgraded Forecast to 2.4 Percent

"The World Bank has downgraded its 2016 global growth forecast to 2.4 percent from the 2.9-percent pace projected in January. The move is due to sluggish growth in advanced economies, stubbornly low commodity prices, weak global trade, and diminishing capital flows.

According to the latest update of its Global Economic Prospects report, commodity-exporting emerging market and developing economies have struggled to adapt to lower prices for oil and other key commodities, and this accounts for 40 percent of the downward revision. Growth in these economies is projected to advance at a meager 0.4-percent pace this year, a downward revision of 1.2 percentage points from the January outlook. . .

A significant increase in private sector credit — fueled by an era of low interest rates and, more recently, rising financing needs — raise potential risks for several emerging market and developing economies, the report finds. . . one development that bears caution is the rapid rise of private debt in several emerging and developing economies. In the wake of a borrowing boom, it is not uncommon to find non-performing bank loans, as a share of gross loans, to quadruple. . .
In an environment of anemic growth, the global economy faces pronounced risks, . .




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BEA Advisory: First Quarter State Personal Income Statistics Coming June 22

Media Advisory
June 20, 2016
First Quarter State Personal Income Statistics to be Released June 22
SUITLAND, Md. -- Preliminary statistics on people’s incomes by state in the first quarter of 2016 will be released Wednesday, June 22 by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. These state personal income statistics will provide BEA’s first look at state economies for the January-March quarter of 2016 and serve as a basis for government and business decision making. For example: Federal government agencies use state personal income statistics to allocate funds and determine matching grants to states. The statistics are also used in forecasting models to project energy and water use. State governments use the statistics to project tax revenues and demand for public services. Academic regional economists use the statistics for applied research. Businesses, trade associations, and labor organization use the statistics for market research. The news release, along with hyperlinks to the associated tables in PDF and XLS formats, will be forwarded to you. The statistics, released at 8:30 a.m. eastern time, also will be available on BEA’s website (www.bea.gov).
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Spies In The Skies // No Surprise?

America is being watched from above. Government surveillance planes routinely circle over most major cities — but usually take the weekends off.
posted on Apr. 6, 2016, at 11:46 a.m.              Each weekday, dozens of U.S. government aircraft take to the skies and slowly circle over American cities. Piloted by agents of the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the planes are fitted with high-resolution video cameras, often working with “augmented reality” software that can superimpose onto the video images everything from street and business names to the owners of individual homes.

At least a few planes have carried devices that can track the cell phones of people below. Most of the aircraft are small, flying a mile or so above ground, and many use exhaust mufflers to mute their engines — making them hard to detect by the people they’re spying on.

The government’s airborne surveillance has received little public scrutiny — until now. BuzzFeed News has assembled an unprecedented picture of the operation’s scale and sweep by analyzing aircraft location data collected by the flight-tracking website Flightradar24 from mid-August to the end of December last year, identifying about 200 federal aircraft. Day after day, dozens of these planes circled above cities across the nation.

The FBI and the DHS would not discuss the reasons for individual flights but told BuzzFeed News that their planes are not conducting mass surveillance.

The DHS said that its aircraft were involved with securing the nation’s borders, as well as targeting drug smuggling and human trafficking, and may also be used to support investigations by the FBI and other law enforcement agencies. The FBI said that its planes are only used to target suspects in specific investigations of serious crimes, pointing to a statement issued in June 2015, after reporters and lawmakers started asking questions about FBI surveillance flights.

“It should come as no surprise that the FBI uses planes to follow terrorists, spies, and serious criminals,” said FBI Deputy Director Mark Giuliano, in that statement. “We have an obligation to follow those people who want to hurt our country and its citizens, and we will continue to do so.”
But most of these government planes took the weekends off. The BuzzFeed News analysis found that surveillance flight time dropped more than 70% on Saturdays, Sundays, and federal holidays.
“The fact that they are mostly not flying on weekends suggests these are relatively run-of-the-mill investigations,” Nathan Freed Wessler, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union’s (ACLU) Project on Speech, Privacy, and Technology, told BuzzFeed News.
. . . The government’s aerial surveillance programs deserve scrutiny by the Supreme Court, said Adam Bates, a policy analyst with the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank in Washington, D.C. “It’s very difficult to know, because these are very secretive programs, exactly what information they’re collecting and what they’re doing with it,” Bates told BuzzFeed News.
The BuzzFeed News analysis almost certainly underestimates the scope of surveillance by federal aircraft. Some two dozen planes operated by the FBI and more than 130 registered to the DHS never appeared on Flightradar24, suggesting that some surveillance planes may be hidden from public view on plane-tracking websites. (See here for details on the BuzzFeed News analysis.)

As to the big drop-off in flights on the weekends, . . . the weekend dip reflects the controversial practice of using undercover agents and informants to entice suspects into joining fake terrorist plots devised by the FBI. . .
In June of last year, the Associated Press reported that it had linked more than 50 planes, mostly small Cessna Skylane 182 aircraft, to 13 fake companies created as fronts for the FBI. Also using Flightradar24, AP reporters tracked more than 100 flights in 11 states over the course of a month.BuzzFeed News extended the list of FBI front companies, drawing from other sources that have investigated the agency’s airborne operations. We then looked for planes registered to these front companies in data provided by Flightradar24. (Its data comes from radio signals broadcast by transponders that reveal planes’ locations and identifying information, picked up by receivers on the ground that are hosted by volunteers across the country.)

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"Who needs a machine gun?" asks Jonathan Pie

Published on Jun 17, 2016

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In his latest episode, Jonathan Pie focuses on the Orlando shootings, asking why it should be public interest to know every detail, "May as well send us a press release and send us the bullets."

U.S. International Transactions: First Quarter 2016 and Annual Revisions

EMBARGOED UNTIL RELEASE AT 8:30 A.M. EDT, Thursday, June 16, 2016

News Release: U.S. International Transactions

The U.S. current-account deficit—a net measure of transactions between the United States and
the rest of the world in goods, services, primary income, and secondary income—increased to
$124.7 billion (preliminary) in the first quarter of 2016 from $113.4 billion (revised) in the fourth quarter of 2015, according to statistics released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA).
The deficit increased to 2.7 percent of current-dollar gross domestic product (GDP) from 2.5
percent in the fourth quarter.
The $11.3 billion increase reflected a $9.6 billion decrease in the surplus on primary income
to $37.5 billion and a $4.0 billion increase in the deficit on secondary income to $40.3 billion.
These changes were partly offset by a $2.0 billion decrease in the deficit on goods to $186.4
billion and a $0.4 billion increase in the surplus on services to $64.6 billion.

Notice About Tables Included in the News Release of the International Transactions Accounts
BEA is increasing the number of tables published in the news release of the International
Transactions Accounts. This news release includes tables with additional details for the current account and financial account:

Table 1. U.S. International Transactions                                      page  8
Table 2. U.S. International Trade in Goods                                         10
Table 3. U.S. International Trade in Services                                      14
Table 4. U.S. International Transactions in Primary Income                         16
Table 5. U.S. International Transactions in Secondary Income                       17
Table 6. U.S. International Financial Transactions for Direct Investment           18
Table 7. U.S. International Financial Transactions for Portfolio Investment        20
Table 8. U.S. International Financial Transactions for Other Investment            22
Table 9. Revisions to U.S. International Transactions                              24

The statistics in tables 1-8 are available in BEA's Interactive Web Application.

Current Account Transactions (tables 1-5)
Financial Account (tables 1, 6, 7, and 8)
Statistical Discrepancy (table 1)
Revisions
The statistics of the U.S. international transactions accounts released today have been revised
for the first quarter of 2012 to the fourth quarter of 2015 to incorporate newly available and
revised source data, improved estimation methodologies, and updated seasonal adjustments. Key
changes introduced in this annual revision are summarized below and in table A.

 

 

Revisions to fourth quarter 2015

     Revisions to Fourth-Quarter 2015 International Transactions Accounts Aggregates
                         [Billions of dollars, seasonally adjusted]

                                                                       Estimate
                                                        Preliminary                Revised
    Current-account balance                                  -125.3                 -113.4
       Goods balance                                         -187.3                 -188.4
       Services balance                                        53.5                   64.2
       Primary-income balance                                  42.8                   47.1
       Secondary-income balance                               -34.3                  -36.3
    Net lending from financial-account transactions           -29.4                  -21.8
    Statistical discrepancy                                    95.9                   91.6

The first-quarter statistics in this release are preliminary and will be revised on September 15, 2016.

 

Source: http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/international/transactions/2016/trans116.htm?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=News+Releases
NOTE: See the navigation bar at the right side of the news release text for links to data tables, contact personnel and their telephone numbers, and supplementary materials.