It's with a heavy heart that, due to real world obligations that need to take the preponderance of his time and focus, I announce the resignation of Jeffrey Marques as our Deputy Air Traffic Manager. Jeff continues to have our utmost respect as an excellent, seasoned controller and instructor. The whole ARTCC has appreciated your dedication and steadfastness, and looks forward to your contributions again as you have more time to contribute.

That said, we are thrilled to announce that Rich Bonneau has accepted an appointment to become Boston's newest Deputy Air Traffic Manager. Rich is a steady force of excellence here at ZBW, and we are looking forward to his leadership.

Finally, to ensure we maintain our excellence in staffing for events, Matt Spencer has accepted the role of Events Coordinator. Between ensuring we keep up with ZBW's historical set of good events and dreaming up exciting new ones, we look forward to kicking it up a notch or two and getting to practice our fun more often.

Please join us in congratulating Jeff on a job well done and a well earned retirement (we look forward to bringing you out of retirement in a few months!) and congratulating Rich and Matt in their new roles. Give 'em a week to get settled into their new offices and learn how to spell their new titles, then give 'em hell!

Don Desfosse
Air Traffic Manager
Boston ARTCC

The taxiway layout at Boston Logan airport (KBOS) has changed. Affected and new taxiways include: Alpha, Alpha-1, Alpha-2, Bravo, Delta, Echo, Echo-1, Echo-2, Golf, Kilo, & Mike.

We will continue to provide ground control service consistent with the old taxiway system until new scenery is available or a pilot specifically advises the controller he/she has updated scenery and is able to accept a taxi route via the new taxiway system.

We certainly appreciate your patience as we transition to the new taxiway reconfiguration.

It's that time of the year when Cross The Pond is upon us once more! Saturday 27 March 2010 is the date to look forward to for this year's Westbound leg, and there are a host of exciting (and some new!) participating fields for you to choose from.

The fields being featured are as follows:

Departing
- London Heathrow, England, EGLL
- Dublin, Ireland, EIDW
- Amsterdam Schiphol, Netherlands, EHAM
- Cologne-Bonn, Germany, EDDK

Arriving
- John F. Kennedy International, New York, KJFK
- Detroit Metropolitan, Michigan, KDTW
- Washington Dulles International, Washington, DC, KIAD

Right now, preliminary planning for departures is a 5 hour departure window starting at 11Z. As such, Boston ARTCC will be staffed by 15Z / 11am and run officially for 7 hours to 22Z / 6pm (the extra tail accounts for time required to move through the ZBW airspace as well as all the non-official-event traffic that will depart at the end of the official event).

Nof flying in the actual event? The Boston ARTCC will have several fields open for your enjoyment. Come fly with us! We look forward to seeing you there!

19 Feb 2010, 7-11pm (00-04Z): vZNY (New York) Friday Night Ops
Our neighbors to the West have their FNO.
You have to fly to and from somewhere, right? How about making it one of the airports in Boston Center's Airspace!

26 Mar 2010, 7-11pm (23-03Z): vZDC (Washington) Friday Night Ops
Our neighbors to the Southwest have their FNO.
You have to fly to and from somewhere, right? How about making it one of the airports in Boston Center's Airspace!

27 Mar 2010, 11am-6pm (15-22Z): Cross The Pond 2010 Westbound
Boston ARTCC will be on in force, shepherding anywhere between 500-800 aircraft through our skies safely to their destinations.

11 Jun 2010, 7-11pm (23-03Z): vZBW (Boston) Friday Night Ops
Time to Escape to the Cape and get ready for the Summer!

10 Jul 2010, 12-7pm (16-23Z): The 11th Annual Boston Tea Party
From the Daniel Webster College Campus, join us as the Boston ARTCC hosts the 11th Annual Boston Tea Party.
Approximately 30 of Boston's outstanding controller team will be controlling together, live, to give you the best ATC experience possible
Featuring our always-favorite poker run with great prizes!