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Air Transportation

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2011

    Alec Baldwin Kicked Off American Airlines Flight at LAX For Playing Nerd Game Words With Friends on Smartphone, he Indicates

    Schweddy.​Updated at the bottom with Baldwin saying he was singled out by a flight attendant for using his phone. First posted at 4:01 p.m. Monday. Alec Baldwin tweeted today that he was pulled off an American Airlines flight at LAX for playing the uber-nerdy smartphone game Words With Friend ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 31, 2011

    Skydive Porn Performers Won't be Charged: Sex in the Skies is Legal, Apparently

    KGETGetting down up in the air.​Remember that couple who "performed" sex while in mid-air, parachutes dangling from their backs? Turns out they didn't do anything wrong. (If that's the case, we see a potential business model here: Sex-skydive tourism; mile-high for a day). The stunt happen ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2011

    Venice Residents Still Fuming Over Santa Monica Airport's Self-Serving Flight Pattern

    New York Times, circa 2007Still annoying.​Update: L.A. City Councilman Bill Rosendahl says he has some tricks up his sleeve to possibly take down the airport before 2015. Also, he calls it "a health emergency for the lungs of my people." More drama below. Originally posted October 18 at 12:50 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 9, 2011

    Federal Court Rules California Council of the Blind Can't Sue JetBlue

    ... unless you're blind​Blind people just can't seem to get a break. First of all, they're blind, which is never easy. And now, thanks to a California federal court ruling, they won't be able to book a flight on JetBlue's website. Where's the humanity.

  • Calendar

    June 16, 2011

    A Father's Day Event That's Free (Parking: $150)

    ... unless you're blind​Blind people just can't seem to get a break. First of all, they're blind, which is never easy. And now, thanks to a California federal court ruling, they won't be able to book a flight on JetBlue's website. Where's the humanity.

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2011

    SF Giants Fans Behind 'Beat L.A.' Banner Say They've Paid a Plane Company to Fly Giant Diss Over Dodger Stadium on Opening Day

    freshnessmag.comWe know, wrong sport. But she's got the right spirit, and looks damn good doin' it.​Updated after the jump: Revenge banner reading "GIANTS SUCK" flies over Dodger Stadium! Plus, a shot of the "Beat L.A." original. Update: Will the banner-flyers remember to adhere to the post-9 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 14, 2011

    Kobe Bryant to Celebrate Controversial Turkish Airlines Endorsement at Paramount Studios Next Month

    Kobe has an Armenian problem.​L.A.'s sizable Armenian American community hasn't been too happy with Kobe Bryant's endorsement of Turkish Airlines. Something about the Armenian Genocide and not turning off one of the most influential ethnic demographics in town. Well, if they have a bone to pi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 20, 2010

    Dennis Zine Dating Lobbyist For Losing LAX Bidder [Updated]

    Dennis Zine​Councilman Dennis Zine is dating a lobbyist for a firm that is protesting a $271 million contract before the City Council.In an interview, Veronica Becerra confirmed that she is working for Tutor-Perini, which is seeking to build a new utility plant at Los Angeles International Airport ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2010

    LAX Concession Aftermath: Alan Rothenberg Resigns From L.A. Airport Commission

    Alan Rothenberg​Alan Rothenberg resigned today from the Los Angeles Airport Commission, in a move that should make it easier for the commission to award airport concession contracts.Rothenberg was the source of a conflict of interest that forced the commission to recuse itself on the first round o ... More >>

  • News

    July 1, 2010

    Food Fight at LAX

    Purveyor of bland challenges plans to upgrade cuisine

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2010

    Flying Car Almost Ready For Your Weekday Commute In Los Angeles

    ​The solution to Los Angeles traffic congestion: flying cars. The Federal Aviation Administration recently approved plans to move ahead with developing a highway-worthy airplane, according to CNN. The aircraft, called "The Transition", was created by Massachusetts-based company, Terrafugia. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2010

    LAX Approves Settlement Worth $118 Million

    ​As the city grapples with a $222 million deficit, the Los Angeles Board of Airport Commissioners Monday approved a settlement of a lawsuit brought by a few airlines that would be worth about $118 million if the deal is approved by the City Council and the plaintiffs. The settlement would end ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2010

    Are Scheduled Flight Times In And Out Of LAX Getting Longer? (Yes)

    ​The Wall Street Journal on Thursday takes a look at ever-expanding flight times on airlines' schedules and notes that one Delta Air Lines trip from New York to L.A. that used to be advertised at six hours is now slated for seven. What's happening, are airline schedules consuming too many carb ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 27, 2009

    Security Tightens At LAX As Feds Assess Threat In The Wake Of Detroit Plane Bombing Attempt

    ​After we put shampoo in little bottles, took off our shoes before check-in and endured long lines at airports in the wake of 9/11, Americans have to be asking if it has all been for naught. After all, a Nigerian who had recently been in the terrorist-rich nation of Yemen allegedly got on boar ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2009

    L.A. Unemployment Headed Upwards

    George Segal Sculpture & LAPL Photo ​​Just when you thought the L.A. Economic Development Corp. had delivered all the bad news we needed to hear about the local economy, now the Chamber of Commerce is weighing in with yet another buzzkill. A study produced for the chamber by Beacon Economics ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2009

    1100 to Havana: Direct Flights from L.A. to Cuba Resume

    What a difference a president makes. Only one year ago Angelenos who wished to travel to Cuba, but who did not have family there, or were not journalists, had their work and time cut out for them. First, they had to take a bus from downtown L.A. to Tijuana, scramble off and back on through a hasty c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    CalTrans Slammed in Flintridge Crash Laura Olhasso, the mayor of La Canada Flintridge, claimed that CalTrans has ignored her town's concerns about runaway trucks on Angeles Crest Highway. A big rig killed two people and injured 12 Wednesday when its driver lost control and struck several vehicles be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 29, 2009

    JetBlue Comes to LAX

    Cheap, friendly and nonstop. Did we mention cheap? Those qualities have endeared JetBlue to Los Angeles travelers ever since the airline began flights out of Long Beach in the 1990s. Starting June 17, JetBlue is finally coming to LAX, from where it will fly two flight daily to Boston's Logan Interna ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    January 1, 2009

    Face Off: The PBS Documentary Helvetica

    Loving and hating the font that conquered

  • Blogs

    December 18, 2008

    Weiss' 25 Best Non Hip-Hop Songs of 2008 (A-L)

    Graffiti originally spotted on Bedford Ave., Williamsburg in 2002--soon followed by copycat crimes on Silverlake Blvd. and San Francisco's Mission District. Now playing at a Hot Topic near you. For spread-the-wealth reasons, this list was restricted to songs from albums that did not make the Top ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2008

    Opera Dreams: Gérard Mortier to Resign as head of New York City Opera

    Graffiti originally spotted on Bedford Ave., Williamsburg in 2002--soon followed by copycat crimes on Silverlake Blvd. and San Francisco's Mission District. Now playing at a Hot Topic near you. For spread-the-wealth reasons, this list was restricted to songs from albums that did not make the Top ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 25, 2008

    Visions of Obamaland

    I couldn’t help but think that what happened in the row in front of me was one of those amazing moments when you see the present moving into, and helping create, the future.

  • News

    August 7, 2008

    Space Race Two: SoCal Loses Fight for Private Space Terminal to New Mexico

    State turns instead to manufacturing ships, suits, even diapers

  • Blogs

    July 19, 2008

    Pitchfork Festival Day 1-The Airing of Grievances

    A Pitchfork seems like the appropriate emblem. After all, it's been a hellish last two days, culminating with this moment right now, my friends already having set off for the festival at the absurdly early crack of noon, abandoning me to pump Fela on my iPod in a Chicago Barnes and Noble, spitting ... More >>

  • Columns

    April 24, 2008

    The Really Friendly Skies

    A Pitchfork seems like the appropriate emblem. After all, it's been a hellish last two days, culminating with this moment right now, my friends already having set off for the festival at the absurdly early crack of noon, abandoning me to pump Fela on my iPod in a Chicago Barnes and Noble, spitting ... More >>

  • News

    September 13, 2007

    Tarmac Rage

    Getting an earful from millionaires’ jets at Santa Monica Airport

  • News

    June 14, 2007

    LAX Expansion Betrayal?

    Thinking they’d won, Westsiders eyeball an even more intrusive runway plan

  • Columns

    February 22, 2007

    Jet Blues

    Chronicle of an airport refugee

  • News

    September 14, 2006

    The Mouse Who Whored

    Where was George Mitchell while Disney sold out 9/11?

  • News

    May 12, 2005

    Lines in the Sand

    Strikes threaten two local industries

  • News

    April 15, 2004

    The Unruly Commissioner

    Ted Stein’s turbulent flight comes to an end — for now

  • Film+TV

    January 15, 2004

    Want To Get Away?

    The airline horror show

  • News

    April 17, 2003

    As Luck Would Have It . . .

    A 9/11 victim testifies that the carnage could have been averted

  • News

    January 23, 2003

    I’m Linda, Fly Me

    The real reason Tom Daschle didn’t run for president

  • Columns

    July 18, 2002

    Born on the Fourth of July

    The real reason Tom Daschle didn’t run for president

  • News

    February 28, 2002

    Boarding Games

    People-watching at LAX security checkpoints

  • Columns

    December 20, 2001

    From There to Here: Starman Envy

    People-watching at LAX security checkpoints

  • News

    December 20, 2001

    Harsh Holidays

    Addressing the plight of laid-off workers

  • News

    November 15, 2001

    Radiating Fear

    In dire need of a plan to protect nuclear power plants

  • News

    November 1, 2001

    Next Time, They Might Be Women

    In dire need of a plan to protect nuclear power plants

  • News

    September 27, 2001

    Welcome to El Al

    In dire need of a plan to protect nuclear power plants

  • News

    November 16, 2000

    Expatriate 2000

    Lowest one-way air fares from LAX, November 8, 2000, 12 a.m. PST

  • Art+Books

    August 24, 2000

    Failed Promise

    The Concorde crash mummifies the ghost of supersonic air travel’s once-bright future

  • News

    August 3, 2000

    Flying Right

    Airport workers get their jobs back

  • News

    July 6, 2000

    No Airport Rescue

    Northwest flouts council effort to save jobs

  • News

    June 29, 2000

    Aborted Takeoff

    Hopes for union grounded at LAX

  • News

    May 13, 1999

    Holding Pattern

    For contract workers at LAX, living wage is grounded

  • News

    July 30, 1998

    Year 2000

    A Complete Guide to the Coming Crisis in Computing

  • News

    April 2, 1998

    Back to Iraq

    Ex–CIA chief to help Iraqis fight secret charges

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