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Kim Day

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    May 3, 2012

    Spirit Airlines makes Denver debut amid bad PR over boycott, baggage fees

    Beginning at 9:45 a.m., Spirit Airlines will celebrate its return to Denver International Airport with a slew of events, including the first landing of a flight from the discount carrier in eight years. But something else is arriving along with this Las Vegas-to-Denver junket -- terrible publicity ... More >>

  • News

    September 22, 2011

    Cut-Rate Calatrava!

    Beginning at 9:45 a.m., Spirit Airlines will celebrate its return to Denver International Airport with a slew of events, including the first landing of a flight from the discount carrier in eight years. But something else is arriving along with this Las Vegas-to-Denver junket -- terrible publicity ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 21, 2011

    Santiago Calatrava's exit from DIA: Westword's Kenny Be and Michael Paglia weigh in

    ​After receiving $13 million to design Denver International Airport's new south terminal hotel and commuter rail station, world-famous Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava abruptly quit the project because it lacked sufficient funding. Rumors about his exit had been flying around for weeks, bu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2011

    Santiago Calatrava bails on DIA expansion: Paging Curt Fentress!

    Curt Fentress.​Let's hope Mayor Michael Hancock has Curt Fentress's number on speed dial. The Denver architect was brought in to fix Denver International Airport before it ever got off the ground decades ago, and the expansion plans he crafted back then could be looking very good now that star ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2011

    Santiago Calatrava's adios to DIA: It's about the money, honey

    The nixed bridge.​That sucking sound you hear out at Denver International Airport isn't the arrival of the long-awaited, ever-elusive direct route to Tokyo. No, it's the sound of tens of millions of dollars in "concepting" and design fees vanishing into the wild blue yonder, as architect Sant ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2011

    Denver International Airport balks at $22M cost of Santiago Calatrava "signature" bridge

    The Calatrava bridge.​Dramatic statements don't come cheap, but what Denver needs may be less drama. After spending upwards of $40 million in the past few years imagining -- make that "visioning" -- a great makeover, DIA manager Kim Day has decided the city really can't afford the "signature" ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2011

    Denver International Airport parking flap: DIA's demand for a piece of the gross

    ​Vowing to "run this airport like a business," Denver International Airport manager Kim Day recently announced a ten-year financial strategy to keep operations in the black while funding a billion-dollar expansion plan. But some of DIA's longtime vendors and contractors say they're the ones ge ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2011

    Denver International Airport's fixation with Santiago Calatrava rail station: The flighty math

    Calatrava station.​Yesterday, Kim Day, Denver International Airport's aviation director, did her best to convince city council members that her team is being sensible in its approach to more than a billion dollars in construction projects at the world's tenth-busiest airport. But the leaner bu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2010

    Auntie Anne operator cries foul over Denver International Airport's plan for concessionaires

    ​The uproar over the forthcoming billion-dollar makeover at Denver International Airport, including a new hotel and train station, has focused largely on the price tag and the potential hike in air fares that the ambitious expansion might trigger. But the operator of one of the oldest concessi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 5, 2010

    John Elway, Josh McDaniels honored at Denver Film Festival: Kenny Be's Fotoshop Friday

    Full posters featured below.​ The joy of living in Denver is that every moment of every day is exciting enough to be a Hollywood movie. Whether it's politics, sports or the arts, the weird, wonderful and wacky people of Denver -- and their pursuits -- would make for a fantastic full-slate at t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2010

    Santiago Calatrava's DIA project: A bridge too far?

    A Calatrava "signature."​News that an "iconic" light-rail bridge spanning Pena Boulevard at Denver International Airport could cost upwards of $60 million, more than double earlier estimates, should come as no surprise to true connoisseurs of the bridge world. We're not talking basic overpass ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 21, 2010

    DIA officials lust for Dreamliner deal

    Boeing already has 876 orders for its new 787, retailing at around $175 million each.​It's not likely that officials at All Nippon Airways would forget that the folks at Denver International Airport dearly want to make a deal for a nonstop flight to Tokyo; DIA's been chasing that brass ring fo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2010

    DIA hotel project delayed -- again

    DIA today: many teepees but no reservations. ​ Press reports about Denver International Airport in the late 1990s included lots of optimistic forecasting about the arrival of a luxury hotel at the airport's doorstep by, oh, no later than 2002 or so. More than a decade later, that hotel still d ... More >>

  • News

    March 11, 2010

    DIA needs to become a regional hub

    DIA today: many teepees but no reservations. ​ Press reports about Denver International Airport in the late 1990s included lots of optimistic forecasting about the arrival of a luxury hotel at the airport's doorstep by, oh, no later than 2002 or so. More than a decade later, that hotel still d ... More >>

  • News

    March 4, 2010

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

    DIA today: many teepees but no reservations. ​ Press reports about Denver International Airport in the late 1990s included lots of optimistic forecasting about the arrival of a luxury hotel at the airport's doorstep by, oh, no later than 2002 or so. More than a decade later, that hotel still d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 30, 2009

    DIA spokesman: "There's no such thing as an all-weather airport"

    ​Denver International Airport received complaints from some airlines on Thursday for allegedly not clearing runways of snow quickly enough -- but DIA spokesman Chuck Cannon believes the facility well. "Obviously, things slowed down on Wednesday and Thursday," he concedes, "but they have to whe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2009

    Wake-Up Call: It won't fly

    Pulling up to Denver International Airport yesterday, I was already feeling nostalgic. New aviation director Kim Day is working on a master plan that could turn the grand, tented terminal into a giant mall that would be off limits to anyone who hasn't gone through security -- and security itself wou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2009

    Wake-Up Call: An idea ready for take-off

    While Mayor John Hickenlooper was outlining some of the ways that Denver is speeding up projects to stimulate the local economy, DIA aviation manager Kim Day yesterday announced plans for a 500-room hotel at the airport, which will be built right by the anticipated FasTracks stop. The hotel projec ... More >>

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