Title: Associate Director
Office: Chicago, Illinois
Practice Area/Specialization: Bond feasibility analysis, aviation
demand forecastings, Airport Improvement Program (AIP)/Passenger Facility Charge
(PFC) financial planning, benefit-cost analyses.
Bill Flock has worked as an airport consultant for 14 years specializing in comprehensive financial planning and aviation demand forecasting. Prior to joining Jacobs Consultancy in 2006, Bill was a founding partner of a consulting firm specializing in airport business and financial planning, air traffic analysis, and aviation demand forecasting. Before starting his own firm, Bill was a Director in the financial planning practice of a nationally recognized airport consulting firm where he worked for 12 years. He was involved in the development of bond feasibility analyses, AIP/PFC financial planning, and air traffic/forecast analyses for commercial service airports in the United States and Canada.
Prior Experience:
Bill developed an automobile parking demand/capacity and business case analysis
for a Parking Development Plan for Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport.
He also developed a gate utilization study for LaGuardia Airport that helped
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey set baselines for determining future
gate utilization criteria. He identified operational statistics (on a terminal-,
airline-, and gate-specific basis), such as aircraft turns, seats per departure,
seat miles per departure, stage length, and gate use by aircraft category.
Bill completed numerous financial planning and aviation forecasting assignments.
For Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, he developed a financial plan to
support construction of a $439 million new runway program and prepared a successful
FAA Benefit-Cost Analysis/Letter of Intent application that resulted in the award
of $148 million grant.
Other projects include preparation of revenue bond continuing disclosure analysis
for San Diego International Airport, a 2003 PFC application supporting $84 million
in collection authority and a PFC level increase from $3.00 to $4.50, and development
of Capital Improvement Program (CIP) financing plans. Bill also prepared a Master
Plan financial analysis for Tucson International Airport, an airport activity
forecast for Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, and a bond feasibility
study for the Alaska International Airport System. |