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Man's face slashed at Los Angeles International Airport -- A man was slashed in the face at Los Angeles International Airport early Friday. He was found when officers responded to reports of an altercation between Terminal 3 and the Tom Bradley International Terminal at around 12:30 a.m, a Los Angeles Airport Police spokeswoman said. The victim, who suffered multiple stab wounds, was taken to a local hospital in a stable condition. A person was found in possession of a knife across from Terminal 2 and arrested for attempted murder. Michael Larkin/NBC4 CBS LA AP KTLA City News Service
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Los Angeles Airport police left dynamite out after training -- A law enforcement official at Los Angeles International Airport says a live stick of dynamite was accidentally left on an old plane at an airport museum for four days. The official, who was briefed on the incident and spoke on condition of anonymity because the person wasn't authorized to speak publicly, said workers on the tarmac found the dynamite Tuesday when they noticed the bright colors on the stick. It was left behind after a Saturday evening training exercise for K9 officers and their dogs who work at the airport. Tami Abdollah/AP
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Alaska Airlines adds nonstop flight from BWI to Los Angeles -- Alaska Airlines is boosting its service at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, adding a new route to Los Angeles. The daily nonstop flight is scheduled to begin Sept. 9. Flights will depart Los Angeles International Airport at 10:10 p.m. with a 6:15 a.m. arrival the next day at BWI. Flights will leave BWI at 7:30 a.m. with a 10:40 a.m. arrival at LAX. Alaska Airlines first started service at BWI last September with daily nonstop service to Seattle. Ryan Sharrow/Baltimore Business Journal
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Alaska Airlines says 'hola' to Costa Rica -- Alaska Airlines will chart new territory this fall when it adds new service between Los Angeles and Costa Rica's two major international airports, further strengthening its southern California focus city. The eight weekly flights from Los Angeles to San Jose (SJO) and Liberia/Guanacaste (LIR), Costa Rica, are scheduled to begin Oct. 31 and Nov. 1 respectively, and are in addition to new daily service the carrier will add on Sept. 9 between Los Angeles and Baltimore. Alaska Airlines Press Release
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Ontario Airport: Small rise in passenger traffic for March -- Ontario International Airport saw a 1.75 percent increase in passenger traffic for March compared to the same month last year, with international travelers bringing up the numbers because of flights that were added in April of last year. The airport is owned by Los Angeles World Airports, which also owns Los Angeles International Airport. Passenger traffic there increased 4.17 percent for March over the 2014 number. The Inland airport also saw air cargo increase 5.20 percent over March of the previous year. Richard K. De Atley/Riverside Press-Enterprise
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Corporate jets drive Carlsbad airport update -- McClellan-Palomar Airport must be redesigned to meet the needs of corporate aircraft already operating there, San Diego County's aviation consultants said at a workshop Thursday night. The Carlsbad airport is the center of corporate aviation for all of San Diego County, said project manager Vince Hourigan of the San Diego firm Kimley-Horn and Associates Inc. Phil Diehl/U-T San Diego
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Boingo, Sprint partner for Wi-Fi Calls at airports -- Boingo Wireless of Los Angeles announced Thursday that it would offer free Wi-Fi coverage at 35 U.S. airports to 40 million Android handsets on Sprint's cellular network. The multi-year partnership will boost data and voice connectivity for Sprint customers automatically as they come in range of Boingo's airport Wi-Fi hotspots. Airports were chosen because they often are difficult places for cellular networks to provide coverage. Among the airports covered through the partnership are Los Angeles International, John F. Kennedy International and Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. Garrett Reim/Los Angeles Business Journal
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Panel recommends sweeping changes at NY's LaGuardia Airport -- A design panel commissioned by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has vowed to renovate the decrepit LaGuardia International Airport, has recommended sweeping changes including the creation of a "great hall" that would serve as the main entrance to travelers at the much-derided facility. The new entrance would be located in the central terminal building, which was built in 1964 and is slated for a $3.6 billion renovation. The panel also recommended creating seamless connections between terminals, adding a new air train station and building a hotel on airport grounds. Meghan Barr/AP
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Former Christie ally David Wildstein wet to plead guilty -- David Wildstein, a former ally of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, is set to plead guilty, according to a person with knowledge of the matter, suggesting he may be cooperating with prosecutors probing traffic jams he ordered near the George Washington Bridge. A plea by Wildstein, who was a top appointee at the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, would be the first conviction for U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman in an investigation of the September 2013 lane closures. David Voreacos/Bloomberg
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Helicopter airport on edge of downtown Chicago is set for takeoff -- A plot of land on Chicago's Near West Side once polluted with arsenic and asbestos will get a clean start Thursday as a helicopter airport that investors say fills a void in air service to the downtown area that has existed since the city bulldozed Meigs Field 12 years ago. The $11 million Vertiport Chicago, in the Illinois Medical District near the Eisenhower Expressway, is aiming to attract a customer base of corporate CEOs and board chairmen who need to get from Chicago-area airports to the city's commercial center in just a few minutes and are willing to pay a premium to do it.
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Well-known airport mural's time passes -- For close to 15 years at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, a set of familiar faces smiling from a mural have greeted travelers taking the escalator up to the terminal upon their arrival in Atlanta. But eagle-eyed passengers may notice that the image of children at the Centennial Olympic Park fountains no longer appears as they come up from the underground people-mover train to the domestic terminal. The mural is now covered up by an advertisement for Porsche, touting Atlanta as the home of Porsche Cars North America. Kelly Yamanouchi/Atlanta Journal Constitution
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Japan leader heads to Los Angeles to encourage more trade -- After demonstrating the merits of a Japanese-made bullet train to California's governor, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is heading to a session with Japanese-Americans to promote expanded trade between his country and the U.S. At the halfway point of his three-day visit to California, the Asian leader will attend a Japan-U.S. Economic Forum Friday in Los Angeles where he is expected to announce policies to facilitate American investment in Japan, said Takako Ito, a foreign ministry spokeswoman. Olga R. Rodriguez & Michael Blood/AP
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American Airlines to fly Dreamliner between Chicago and Japan -- American Airlines will use a Boeing 787 Dreamliner on a regular route between Chicago and Japan, the airline told employees Thursday. It will be the first U.S. airline to use the highly touted aircraft on a regular route at O'Hare International Airport, although some foreign airlines use it. American will start daily service Aug. 18 from O'Hare to Narita International Airport near Tokyo, according to a memo Thursday to Chicago employees from Franco Tedeschi, an American Airlines vice president and its top Chicago-based executive. Gregory Karp/Chicago Tribune
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American Airlines iPad app glitch traced to database software -- A software glitch that delayed two dozen American Airlines Group Inc. flights for several minutes Tuesday originated in a database that feeds information to the Apple Inc. iPad application pilots use to view terminal maps. Passengers in Dallas, New York and Chicago reported the flight delays via Twitter after pilots informed them that their iPad screens went dark. The glitch underscores challenges companies face as they increasingly rely on new technologies to make operations more efficient. Clint Boulton/Wall Street Journal
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Qantas hopes LA hangar will nab A380 maintenance work -- Qantas sees an opportunity for third-party maintenance work in Los Angeles when it completes the first purpose-built A380 hangar in the US next year. The move comes after Qantas last year signed a 20-year lease for the maintenance facility at Los Angeles International Airport, which will include two parking areas for superjumbos, office space and support facilities. Steve Creedy/The Australian
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262 House lawmakers side with airlines in Open Skies dispute -- A bipartisan group of 262 House lawmakers is pushing the Obama administration to wade into a dispute over foreign airline subsidies that has roiled the U.S. aviation industry. Unions that represent parts of the U.S. airline industry have alleged Middle Eastern airlines like Qatar Airways, Etihad Airways and Emirates Airlines have received more than $42 billion in subsidies since 2004. Keith Laing/The Hill
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Which airline makes it easiest to spend all those miles? -- Road warriors are great at racking up frequent-flier points but often frustrated by barriers that make it difficult to swap those points for seats to desired destinations. Blogs galore (reliable, but often sponsored by mileage-reward credit cards) offer strategies for sorting things out, but few have the number-crunching power of non-profit Consumer Reports, which analyzed 70 million passenger trips over the past two years for its just-published "Ultimate frequent-flyer guide" identifying the best reward-seat availability for the 25 most popular U.S. award routes on the five biggest airlines. Harriet Baskas/USA Today
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How a latex membrane could deliver quieter airline flights -- A team of researchers from North Carolina State University and MIT have designed a lightweight membrane-in its current form, basically a 0.25 millimeter-thick sheet of latex-to cover one side of the lightweight honeycomb structure that is used to build airplanes and helicopters. The sheet is stretched over one side of the honeycomb matrix like a drum. When low-frequency sound waves (like those from an aircraft engine, say) hit it, they bounce off, dramatically reducing the effect of the engines on passengers. Jordan Golson/Wired
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FAA orders fix for possible power loss in Boeing 787 -- Federal regulators will order operators of Boeing 787 Dreamliners to shut down the plane's electrical power periodically after Boeing discovered a software error that could result in a total loss of power. The Federal Aviation Administration said on Thursday that Boeing found during laboratory testing that the plane's power control units could shut down power generators if they were powered without interruption for 248 days, or about eight months. Jad Mouawad/Wall Street Journal
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FAA upgrades air traffic control to reduce delays, save fuel -- In an effort to reduce flight delays and save fuel, the Federal Aviation Administration officially switched to a new air traffic control system Thursday for the 20 regional centers that direct high-altitude planes between airports. The nearly $2.5 billion system called En Route Automation Modernization (ERAM) has three times as many sensors to track planes more precisely, which enables planes to fly safely while closer together. Bart Jansen/USA Today
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DWP trusts paid for steak dinners, trips to Hawaii, Las Vegas, audits find -- Two nonprofit trusts, created by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power and financed with more than $40 million from ratepayers, paid millions to vendors without competitive bids, overpaid top managers and let them use trust-issued credit cards to buy gas for their personal vehicles and travel without filing expense reports, according to city audits released on Thursday. Jack Dolan/Los Angeles Times Mike Reicher/Los Angeles Daily News
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Judge halts Millennium Hollywood skyscraper project -- A judge on Thursday halted a developer's plan to build two massive skyscrapers in the heart of Hollywood, ruling that the city of Los Angeles failed to fully assess how the $1-billion project would affect the surrounding community. The Millennium Hollywood project has been strongly backed by city officials but opposed by community groups fearful of traffic congestion and the project's proximity to the Hollywood earthquake fault. Rong-Gong Lin II, David Zahniser & Rosanna Xia/Los Angeles Times Howard Fine/Los Angeles Business Journal
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