• Jet Blue has opened a new hotel near Orlando International Airport for its employees. About 7,000 staff who visit the airline’s training facility each year will now be housed on campus- rather than going to local hotels.
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• Orlando may join almost two dozen airports that have stopped using TSA screeners. Most of the others are smaller operations — but Orlando would be one of the largest. 90.7’s Renata Sago reports, airport executives say the screening would be better, faster, and cheaper.
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• Port Canaveral isn’t out of the car manufacturing partnership game just yet, according to port officials, even though earlier this month, it lost out on 100 new jobs and millions of dollars in economic impact when Volkswagen Group of America chose to locate a vehicle import complex at the Port of Jacksonville instead of Canaveral. Port CEO John Walsh currently is trying to woo seven other car manufacturers to occupy a future $85 million auto assembly facility by this year. That facility would put out 350,000 cars a year and could create thousands of jobs.
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• The US Department of Transportation has rejected a bid by low cost airline Norwegian Air International to immediately start new flights from Europe to the US.
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