GatewayJFK Begins Limited
Snow Removal Service
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This February, GatewayJFK
began providing a limited
snow removal service to
help businesses and
residents dig out from the
massive snow storm that hit
NYC from February 1st to
3rd and dropped an
estimated 17 inches of
snow on the community.
The snow removal eort is
intended to improve the
amount of parking in the
area and remove large piles
of snow that limit visibility
and impact the turning
radius of commercial
vehicles. The new program
is a supplemental service
that focuses on cleaning up
the edges that remain after
the NYC Department of
Sanitation performs its
regular plowing service,
and that remain after
individual property owners
dig out private driveways
and parking lots.
GatewayJFK's eorts have
taken a week due to the
scale of the storm, and due
the size of the district which
has approximately 7 linear
miles of roadway within its
b o u n d a r i e s .
87% of business owners
cited snow removal as a top
priority during the 2014
survey that led to the eventual
creation of Gateway-
JFK. This is the rst major
storm to hit New York City
since the GatewayJFK
began operations in the
spring of 2018.
GatewayJFK is a Business Improvement District in Southeast
Queens that is home to over 600 businesses and 150 single family
households. Our mission is to create a space in New York where the
air cargo businesses can expand, thrive and be a good neighbor.
New Payroll Support
Extension Program
for 2021 $18billion
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for airlines,
airports, and
contractors
The Consolidated Appropriations
Act, 2021, enacted on December 27,
2020, created the Payroll Support Program
Extension (PSP2) for passenger
air carriers, airports and certain airline
contractors*
The U. S. Treasury Department
plans to distribute $15 billion in a
renewed “payroll support program”
PSP assistance to airlines,(allocating
60% of what it provided to passenger
airlines under the CARES Act) to
help more than 32,000 aviation workers
return to jobs through at least
March 31, 2021.
Large airlines receiving assistance
must repay 30% of it to the
government in 10-year, low-interest
loans. They must also issue warrants
to the government as part of the assistance
and must agree to extend restrictions
on executive compensation
and a ban on paying dividends and
share repurchases through March
2022. Additionally, airports received
$2 billion in fi nancial assistance in
the aggregate “to prevent, prepare
for, and respond to coronavirus,” subject
to certain provisions.
Airline Payroll Support Program
— $15 billion to renew the
CARES Act program keepingworkers
on payroll without furloughs or
reducing pay rates and benefi ts until
March 31, 2021, with requirements
for airlines to rehire workers laid off
after Sept. 30, 2020, as well as stipulations
preventing airlines from using
funds for stock buybacks,
Large airlines receiving assistance
must repay 30% of it to the government
in 10-year, low-interest loans.
They must also issue warrants to the
government as part of the assistance
and must agree to extend restrictions
on executive compensation and a ban
on paying dividends and share repurchases
through March 2022.
Most of the well known U.S airlines
are expected to receive a share
of this funding to keep them afl oat
during the contining pandemic
. — Delta Air Lines said it expects
to receive $2.9 billion in total aid this
round, with $830 million in the form
of an unsecured loan.
— Southwest Airlines said it expected
to receive $1.73 billion in total.
*Airline contractors — defi ned
broadly as persons contracting with
Part 121 air carriers for catering,
aircraft loading/unloading, security,
ground handling, and other assistive
functions — will receive an
additional $1 billion in support in
aggregate. All funds must be used exclusively
for the continuation of payment
of employee wages, salaries,
and benefi ts
Even with the renewed funding,
both AA, United and Hawaiian expressed
warnings of trouble which
stated that they could furlough
13,000 workers when the renewed
program expires. According to CEO
Doug Parker. “As we closed out last
year with the successful extension of
the Payroll Support Program (PSP),
we fully believed that we would be
looking at a summer schedule where
we’d fl y all of our airplanes and need
the full strength of our team. Regrettably,
that is no longer the case.”
American Airlines recalled the
19,000 workers who were furloughed
last year when U.S. airlines received
$15 billion in the $900 billion package,
which extended the program for
the industry.
The original Cares Act
of March 2020 Act
provided:
•-$25 billion for passenger air carriers
(any air carrier that, during the
period from April 1, 2019, to September
30, 2020, derived more than
50% of its air transportation revenue
from the transportation of passengers);
•-$4 billion for cargo air carriers (any
air carrier that, during the period
from April 1, 2019, to September 30,
2020, derived more than 50% of its
air transportation revenue from
the transportation of property or
mail, or both); and
• $3 billion for contractors who provide
ground services directly to air
carriers, such as
catering services or on-airport
functions.
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