Passenger Air Transportation

L.A. Billboards Call Out Air France for its Monkey Business

Air France is under fire for transporting monkeys and other primates to what could be their last destinations -- small cages housing them in between scientific experiments. That's the claim of L.A.-based Last Chance for Animals (LCA), which recently announced it has put up not one but two billboard ... More >>

From The Los Angeles Public Library Menu Collection: Air France and the Decline of Airline Food

Exploring the LAPL menu collection is an ongoing project in which we'll take a close look at the menus owned by the Los Angeles Public Library. Read about the project here. If you've ever had the feeling that the awful quality of airline food has very little to do with the problems of technology in ... More >>

United Airlines Pilots Turn LAX Parking Lot Into 'Ghetto' Where They Sleep Between Flights

While the Tom Bradley Terminal at LAX undergoes a much-Tweeted-about $1.7 billion supermakeover, a sort of slum is forming in the employee parking lots, says a group of pilots from United Airlines. The pilots claim that their plummeting salaries and benefits have forced them to camp out for weeks a ... More >>

Japan Airlines Teams Up With Yoshinoya: Beef Bowls at 40,000 Feet

Eikichi Matsuda opened Yoshinoya in 1899, in a fish market outside Edo Castle in Chuoku, Tokyo. Over the following century or so, the company expanded well beyond fish markets in Japan and, starting this month, its presence will extend to the skies. From now until May 31, Yoshinoya will offer its ... More >>

Leisha Hailey Issues Statement Regarding Her Controversial Airplane Kiss

​Leisha Hailey, who formerly starred in The L Word and is currently a member of Los Angeles indie pop duo Uh Huh Her, has issued a statement regarding being asked to leave a Southwest Airlines flight. Yesterday, the singer/actress wrote a series of Tweets about the incident. She said that sh ... More >>

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.

Carmageddon: Bicycle Crew Wolfpack Hustle Plans to Race JetBlue Flight From Burbank to Long Beach

wolfpackhustle.comWolfpack Hustle.​Update: Yo! Venice! reports that Wolfpack won with a speed of about 24.8 miles per hour and a time of one hour, 34 minutes. (We assume this includes boarding and taxiing for JetBlue). Twitter users who followed the race also claim that a rollerblader who app ... More >>

Planes, Trains, Citroëns French Fries: Air France to Fuel Planes with Cooking Oil

Flickr/ldrose​ If you needed another reason to book an Air France flight to Paris, you can now do so in the name of environmentalism. Well, at least if you ignore the carbon footprint part. According to Mother Nature Network, Air France-KLM has announced that this fall it will start fueling pl ... More >>

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

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Airport Police Union TSA Pronouncement

​The organization representing Los Angeles airport police says the attempted attack on an airliner over Detroit Christmas day highlights the need for the U.S. Transportation Security Administration to get a new permanent leader. Marshall McClain, president of the Los Angeles Airport Peace Off ... More >>

Feds Removed From LAX A Bomb Detection Device That Could Have Thwarted Detroit Attempt

​Federal officials removed a bomb detection device from LAX, a U.S. Transportation Security Administration official tells the Weekly, one that at least some observers think could have alerted authorities to the the kind of plane-bombing plot attempted on Christmas above Detroit. In 2006 LAX in ... More >>

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 >>

What Would 9-11 Be Like in the Age of Social Media?

During the President's health care speech two days ago, the shared experience that is the realtime Internet reacted to a perfect Twitter-fodder event -- Joe Wilson's "you lie" outburst -- with a surprising amount of conversation about the real issue in the room, health care reform. This realtime 2 ... More >>

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 >>

Techcrunch Crunchup: L.A. Does it in Realtime

SoCal native and the "Golden God of Tech" Michael Arrington was born and raised in Huntington Beach so it came as no surprise that the L.A. contingent was out in full-force at this year's Techcrunch Crunchup Real Time Conference and summer party at the August Capital offices in Palo Alto. There for ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Face Off: The PBS Documentary Helvetica

Loving and hating the font that conquered

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 >>

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

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.

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 >>

Sunset Strip Music Festival

The Really Friendly Skies

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For the week of Jan. 25-31

Jet Blues

Chronicle of an airport refugee

All in the Famima!!

A new convenience-store empire is among us

The Mouse Who Whored

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

Lines in the Sand

Strikes threaten two local industries

Want To Get Away?

The airline horror show

I’m Linda, Fly Me

The real reason Tom Daschle didn’t run for president

Born on the Fourth of July

Boarding Games

People-watching at LAX security checkpoints

From There to Here: Starman Envy

Harsh Holidays

Addressing the plight of laid-off workers

Next Time, They Might Be Women

Welcome to El Al

The Day the Sky Fell

This time, it was impersonal

Expatriate 2000

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

Failed Promise

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

No Airport Rescue

Northwest flouts council effort to save jobs

Aborted Takeoff

Hopes for union grounded at LAX

Flying Right

Anti-union strafing to end at LAX

Holding Pattern

For contract workers at LAX, living wage is grounded

Back to Iraq

Ex–CIA chief to help Iraqis fight secret charges