Jim DeLong

DIA Dreams: Aviation director Kim Day plans to take DIA where no airport has gone before

This Year Blows!

Kissing off a year of six-minute smooches and sex-toy cigars.

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Soar Winner

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An Airport Divided

United Airlines and BAE get personal in a lawsuit over DIA's bungled baggage system.

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As the Carousel Turns

Is a new contract at DIA the first step toward ripping out the automated baggage system?

Flights of Fancy

Denver pays a consultant big money to get overseas flights for DIA--and goes nowhere.

Taking Its Toll

Labor STRIFE, racial tension and a "disadvantaged" owner who drives a Mercedes: between the lines of DIA's controversial parking contract.

The Out of Towners

Denver officials join the Department of Aviation and see the world.

THE DIA UNDERGROUND

TUNNELING INTO THE DEEPEST SECRETS OF THE AIRPORT'S CURSED BAGGAGE SYSTEM.

WHO'S HOLDING THE BAG?

BUFFALO BILLS

ANOTHER FRIEND OF THE MAYOR'S JOINS THE PATRONAGE HERD AT DIA.

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SOUTHWESTERN FLYER

THE CITY CLEARS THE TARMAC FOR A TEXAS-SIZED TAXPAYER SUBSIDY AT DIA.

A SOARING PAYROLL

AT DIA, PASSENGERS ARE DOWN, BUT STAFFING IS UP.

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FLIGHT RISK

GUESS WHICH LITTLE AIRLINE IS BACK SNIFFING AT THE PUBLIC TROUGH.

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OPEN AND SHUT-UP CASE

REACH FOR THE SKY

THE DIZZYING HEIGHTS OF MARKAIR'S SECRET "ECONOMIC-DEVELOPMENT PLAN."

THE CLIENT

CHOPPERS GET AXED

MAYOR WEBB POSTPONES PLANS FOR A DOWNTOWN HELICOPTER PAD.

FLACK ATTACK

HOW PR BIGWIGS TRIED TO PULL DIA OUT OF A TAILSPIN.

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FILING A COSTLY FLIGHT PLAN

THE CITY PAYS UP TO $14 A WORD FOR A CONSULTANT'S REPORT ON STAPLETON.

THE PARTY'S OVER

Small Craft Warnings

Regional airports had high hopes when DIA said it wasn't interested in private avaiation. But guess what? DIA changed its mind. Again. Gorilla tactics as dia makes a grab for private planes, regional airports bail out of their expansion plans.