April '10 was second best April on record
(Moline/Quad Cities) - It was announced today at the Metropolitan Airport Authority monthly board meeting that April, 2010, was the second best April in history. 37,735 passengers were enplaned, 377 passengers shy of the record held by April '08. Total passengers for the year are up 6% over 2009.
"Whenever we have flights added back into the daily schedule, we see an increase in passenger traffic," Bruce Carter, Director of Aviation said. "Two flights were added by Delta on April 6th to Minneapolis-St. Paul and Detroit, and another daily flight will be added to Memphis in early June. With the addition of these flights, there are more than 200 daily seats available to our passengers."
In other news, a historical photo display has been unveiled at the Art@ the Airport gallery located across from the restaurant. The gallery features a series of enlarged photos from the early years of Moline aviation including special flight landings, a series of the interior of the 1954 terminal, a display of hanging model airplanes, and much more. An "Aviation Adventure" contest is being held in conjunction with other area agencies including the Putnam/Imax, Quad City Air show, Quad City Arts, and the Quad Cities Convention & Visitors Bureau. More information about the Aviation Adventure, including details about the grand prize being offered, can be found by clicking on the aviation adventure link at qcairport.com, under the contests & specials button.
The eighth "Honor Flight of the Quad Cities" is scheduled to depart Wednesday morning May 26th at 7:00 a.m. and return at approximately 10:30 p.m. The public is welcome to greet the veterans upon their return, after they have spent the day visiting the WWII memorial, and other historic memorials and monuments.
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Rick
Lodmell is both prepared and lucky.
The
Figge Art Museum's Contemporary
Glass Invitational feels
dangerous. The glass process itself carries the physical peril of
fire and molten liquid. The artistic effects are also unsettling,
combining soothing beauty with surprise. These glass sculptures glow
with intense and subtle visual pleasures, but they also create
anxiety through their tensions and contradictions.
A
huge foam cornucopia, curling in a massive yellowish shape, fills up
the entire front window of the Leger Gallery in its current exhibit.
Instead of the smooth perfect curve of a mathematical spiral, we have
an unevenly textured solidified liquid used in a completely new way
to describe the flow of thought and time and nature. With an
industrial material normally used to insulate houses, Terry Rathje
has created a buoyant example of the lively and inventive
presentation inside.
Iowa
Pastimes, Thomas C.
Jackson's current exhibit of paintings at the Figge Art Museum, is
filled with vivid observations of two American institutions filtered
through the single eye of the artist's camera. Both worlds -
political conventions and the Iowa State Fair - are spectaculars
with bright lights, designed to generate excitement and movement, and
they make their appeals to the great cross section of America.
In
the new exhibit at Quad City Arts, the concept of the private journey
is illustrated by two artists. But by showing only the means
of literal transportation - vessels and roads - the artists
create something universal to help us consider our own spiritual
travels.
Artists
Ralph Iaccarino and Silvia Engel are wonderfully matched in an
attractive show at the MidCoast Fine Arts Gallery at the Mississippi
Valley Welcome Center in LeClaire. Iaccarino paints light and musical
colors in a flat space, while Engel works in a shallow space with
luminescent three-dimensional colors.
