leader among non-profits is in our annual net income, which
averages just over 1 percent of our budget. In other words, we
walk the talk about plowing our returns back into the services
members tell us they value.
Reaching AAAE’s current level of success has taken three
decades of support from several generations of AAAE elected
leaders. They’ve done a remarkable job of setting policies that
have kept the association on a steady course, never losing sight
of the need for consistency and persistence in supporting any
successful business model. Those volunteers also have steadily
built a culture, among both leaders and staff, that is designed
to continue AAAE’s success. Rewarding entrepreneurship,
incentivizing innovation, investing in information technology
and seeking to provide exceptional member service are all part
of leadership’s focus that aims to advance the AAAE culture.
It’s a AAAE culture that in turn tries to advance AAAE’s unique
business model. That’s a virtuous cycle our future leaders will be
wise to perpetuate.
So I hope today’s members will help celebrate and appreciate
the many volunteer leaders from their ranks who have built an
extraordinary, successful organization from what was only a
concept decades ago. And I hope you will look at the products
and services in the following pages and understand that
collectively they represent more than just the value an airport
can achieve from a single product or a single service. They are
collectively what allows AAAE to provide all of its member
services. They are collectively part of a unique, and uniquely
successful, business model among non-profit organizations – a
model designed, promoted, protected and advanced by more
than three decades of AAAE leaders.
Our thanks go out to all those volunteer leaders for
their vision, time and wisdom. They’ve built a remarkable
organization with great products and services — products and
services that deliver both specific solutions to airport problems
and added value through the broad reach of AAAE.
AAAE BY THE NUMBERS
Airport members
3,300
Airports represented in AAAE
membership
850
Total members
5,125
Corporate members
500
companies/
organizations
Airports using Interactive Employee
training (IET) systems
95
Total IET training and testing
sessions delivered
2.34 million
IET training sessions delivered
each business day
1,535
IET workstations in use at airports
530
Airports subscribing to ANTN
Digicast Web-based training system
124
Individual ANTN Digicast users
6,119
Airport worker biometric
background checks processed
by the Transportation Security
Clearinghouse (TSC)
nearly
7 million
Airport worker biographic background
checks processed by TSC
4. 9 million
Meetings and conferences held
annually
90
Attendees at AAAE meetings,
conferences, and training sessions
annually
10,000
Student scholarships awarded by
AAAE Foundation
1,952
Total amount of scholarships
awarded
$3.2 million
Average amount of scholarships
awarded annually
$150,000
