It’s been awhile since I last wrote about Long Beach, so I thought last week’s Airport Advisory Commission meeting would be a good opportunity for me to bring it up again. Now that the plans for the new terminal (scheduled to break ground next year) and parking garage (scheduled to …
Category: LGB – Long Beach
Long Beach Airport Garage and Terminal Plans Move Forward
The airport is starting to put forth more concrete plans, and it’s sounding pretty good.
Southwest Pushes WestJet Codeshare, Shifts Priorities
WestJet announced yesterday that Southwest was delaying its codeshare to focus on other things. What are those other things?
Too …
For those of you who don’t live in the LA area, the interview with Dave Barger I published last week is probably a distant memory. But for those living in this area, and especially those in Long Beach, this has become a very hot topic indeed. A couple nights 
ago, …
Welcome back to Part 2 of my interview with 
Dave Barger, CEO of JetBlue. If you missed Part 1 which discusses the problems in Long Beach along with the general product direction, then you might want to go check it out.
In Part 2, Dave and I talk about …
It was almost a year ago that JetBlue announced it would begin flying to LAX in addition to its main Southern California 
operation at Long Beach along with smaller operations at Burbank and Ontario. Once fuel started climbing, they walked away from LAX. But now, a year later, JetBlue is …
Remember that whole strategy from LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa about airport regionalization? Well, it took yet another step backward yesterday with the recommendation of the Burbank airport authority to enact a hard curfew (via this excellent Airliners.net thread).
You can guess where this is coming from – the surrounding …
I’ve just survived what may possibly have been the first tornado warning I’ve ever endured living in LA. And yes, I grew up here. I’m not quite sure why they’d bother doing that because none of us have any clue what we’re supposed to do if there’s a tornado nearby. …
Ok, ok. I know I sometimes talk too much about aviation in Southern California, but I’ve been trying to cut back. This time though, I have to comment.
It’s not LAX that’s causing problems this time. Nope, it’s a mere 375 hours down the 405 (20 minutes on those rare …