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LAX to see record number of Labor Day weekend travelers -- A record-breaking 835,500 travelers are expected to pass through Los Angeles International Airport over Labor Day weekend, up 7 percent over last year's holiday weekend, airport officials announced Wednesday. Friday and Monday will be the busiest days at LAX, with more than 228,000 expected on Friday and 216,700 expected Monday. The total number of travelers expected at LAX is 7 percent above last year's figure of 780,716, according to the airport. City News Service LAWA News Release
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Man gets 15 years in prison for carjacking 3 taxis near Los Angeles International Airport -- A man who carjacked three taxis and led police on a high-speed chase near Los Angeles International Airport has been sentenced to 15 years in prison. Derrick Bogar was sentenced Wednesday after pleading guilty to carjacking, robbery, fleeing police and administering a drug. Authorities say Bogar carjacked two different cabs parked at the airport on April 7 and 8, then carjacked a third taxi on April 10 and forced that driver to smoke a drug-laced cigarette before the cabbie managed to escape. AP
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Lakewood woman last seen at LAX accused of faking court-ordered visit with kids, abducting them -- Authorities are asking for the public's help to find two children they believe were abducted by their divorced mother after she faked a court-ordered visit with them. Detectives for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Lakewood Station say Faye Ku, 41, abducted her biological sons - Sage and Isaac Cook, 14 and 9, respectively. Ku and her sons were last seen at Los Angeles International Airport. Greg Yee/Long Beach Press-Telegram
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Santa Monica puts airport ahead of homelessness -- The Santa Monica City Council has made "securing local control of the city land occupied by the Santa Monica Airport" one of its top three priorities, ahead of such issues as addressing homelessness, strengthening infrastructure, and expanding on educational partnerships. The priorities, which were set following an Aug. 23 special meeting of the council, will guide how the city spends money and deploys staff. Elizabeth A Tennyson/AOPA Pilot
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Airport contract workers protest for union, higher wages -- Chanting and holding up signs in the sweltering midday heat, contract employees from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport brought their fight for the right to unionize and earn higher wages to downtown Fort Lauderdale. The gathering of more than 50 employees of airline contractors G2 Secure Staff and Eulen America rallied with supporters outside the Broward County Government Center on Tuesday. Arlene Stachell/Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel
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'I grew up in this airport': New CEO vows to continue BWI's growth -- For Ricky Smith, returning to BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport marks a homecoming both professionally and personally. Smith worked for the Maryland Aviation Administration for 16 years ultimately becoming its chief operating officer before he left in 2006 to head Cleveland, Ohio's airport system. He also grew up nearby in West Baltimore, a few blocks from the CVS on Pennsylvania Avenue that was destroyed during April's riots, he said. Ben Weathers/Capital Gazette
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Air cargo volumes drop as China's economy stumbles -- Airports from Seattle to Amsterdam are reporting a fall-off in cargo traffic to and from Asia, in what transportation executives and analysts say is a worrying sign for the health of global trade. The data, released in recent days by individual airport authorities, brought to an end a months-long stretch of rapid growth in air freight volumes across the U.S. and Europe. The abrupt reversal demonstrated how rapidly economic problems in China and other emerging markets have already reduced the flow of goods around the world. Paul Page/Wall Street Journal
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The best airline bargains, if you have a taste for adventure -- Adventurous travelers have a trick to finding a cheap fare: Book a ticket to somewhere, just about anywhere. The airline picks your destination. Germanwings, a discount European carrier owned by Lufthansa, offers what it calls "blind booking'' tickets as cheap as €33 ($37) each way. You pick your dates and your interest: party, culture, shopping, sun-and-beach, gay friendly, metropolis or nature. Then Germanwings picks your destination. Once your payment goes through, the confirmation comes with your destination listed. Scott McCartney/Wall Street Journal
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Is North Korea's Air Koryo the world's worst airline? It may be the quirkiest -- If an Air Koryo passenger ignores its no-photography rule, a flight attendant might take the camera and delete the pictures herself. Crumpling up a newspaper bearing the image of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un can earn travelers a stern lecture, or worse. Those are among many quirks that may help explain why North Korea's airline has earned a singular distinction: It's been ranked the world's worst airline for four straight years. Eric Talmadge/AP
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Japan Airlines to resume Dallas service. Can new found profitability be maintained with expansion? -- It is with some disappointment Japan Airlines - once a global heavyweight and defining symbol of "Japan Inc." - concedes it has been quiet. A return in Nov-2015 on the Tokyo-Dallas route marks only the sixth international service JAL has opened or resumed since 2010. Rival All Nippon Airways has been on a growth streak, opening 14 routes since 2010, including four in 2015 alone. One of those is Houston, cementing Texas' recent Asian air service growth streak. CAPA
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Delta to pay business fliers if it's later than American, United -- Basking in an on-time rate that beats rivals, Delta Air Lines Inc. promises to pay up if it can't get road warriors to their destinations more reliably than American and United. Delta is pitching a new program to its corporate clients that would award travel credits to those accounts if the carrier falls behind its two biggest rivals in on-time arrival and flight completion rates. The initiative is novel in an industry where airfare discounts and flight selection -- not reliability -- typically win corporate travel buyers. Michael Sasso/Bloomberg Business
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Execs from big three airlines appear at ASTA convention -- For the first time in more than 15 years, executives from the big three network airlines - United, American and Delta - took the stage during the general session of ASTA's Global Convention, held here this week. Dave Hilfman, senior vice president of worldwide sales for United; Derek DeCross, vice president of global sales for American; and Bob Somers, vice president of global sales for Delta, participated in a panel moderated by ASTA Chair Roger Block, president of Travel Leaders Franchise Group. Jamie Biesiada/Travel Weekly
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IAG formally takes control of Aer Lingus -- British Airways owner International Consolidated Airlines Group (IAG) has said it now controls Aer Lingus, with the deadline for the Irish airline's shareholders to accept its offer now closed. IAG received valid acceptances of the offer for 98.05 per cent of the existing issued share capital of Aer Lingus. Shareholders will receive a cash payment of € 2.50 for each share held, and a cash dividend payment of 5 cents per share. Pamela Newenham/The Irish Times
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L.A. homicides, after big jump in August, are up 7% for 2015 -- After remaining relatively flat for much of the year, the number of people killed in Los Angeles surged in August, leaving police scrambling to rein in the violence. Through Saturday, the city recorded a nearly 7% increase in homicides -- which amounts to 12 more killings -- since the start of the year, compared with the same time period in 2014, according to LAPD data. Across the city, 185 people had been killed through Saturday. Kate Mather & Nicole Santa Cruz/Los Angeles Times
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Dramatic rise in crime casts a shadow on downtown L.A.'s gentrification -- Crime has jumped across the city this year, but nowhere has the increase been as large as in L.A.'s hippest new domain: downtown. Here, the forces of rapid gentrification are crashing up against the chronic poverty, homelessness and crime that have long been a part of life in the city center. Police and residents say the influx of new lofts, luxury high-rise apartments, bars and eateries have made new downtown dwellers easy targets for street crime. Ben Poston & Kate Mather/Los Angeles Times
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