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Southwest Airlines nonstop service linking LAX and Costa Rica now available at Southwest.com --Southwest Airlines today published its initial flight schedule for international service at LAX Terminal 2 with daily service beginning Tuesday, April 12, 2016, from LAX to Daniel Oduber Quiros International Airport (LIR) in Liberia/Guanacaste, Costa Rica, subject to foreign government approval. The carrier is offering introductory one-way fares as low as $149 one-way (purchase today through Feb. 1 and travel from April 12 through May 25, 2016). Southwest Press Release
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Los Angeles County reports record 45.5 million visitors for 2015 -- For the fifth year in a row, Los Angeles reported a record number of tourists for 2015, thanks in part to the continued growth of the number of big-spending international visitors. Mayor Eric Garcetti announced at a news conference at Los Angeles International Airport that Los Angeles County had welcomed a projected 45.5 million visitors last year, an increase of 2.8% from the previous year. LAX, now the nation's second busiest airport, saw a record 74.5 million travelers in 2015, 5.6% growth over the previous year. Hugo Martin/Los Angeles Times Daina Beth Soloman/Los Angeles Business Journal City News Service CBS LA CNS/Korea Times AP
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Will $99 fares to Europe become the new normal? -- Bargain hunters, get ready: $99 fares on flights from California to Iceland and Europe go on sale Tuesday morning. Those eye-popping prices come from Icelandic carrier WOW, which will put seats on sale for its previously announced new routes from Los Angeles and San Francisco to Iceland. The flights, which go on sale at 9 a.m. ET, will begin in June with one-way fares to Reykjavik on sale for as little as $99 one way. Ben Mutzabaugh/USA Today
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Ontario Airport settlement agreement released; local control at hand -- The final settlement agreement for Ontario Airport lays out the terms of the deal that will clinch local control and sets up a protection plan for the 214 employees at the facility. Ontario can now begin the process of applying for a certificate of operation from the Federal Aviation Administration. The process is expected to be completed July 1. Liset Marquez/Inland Valley Daily Bulletin Richard K. DeAtley/Riverside Press-Enterprise
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Alaska Airlines 'continuing to invest' in Santa Rosa flights -- The number of passengers traveling through the Charles M. Schulz-Sonoma County Airport in 2015 increased by almost 25,000 over the previous year to a record, and with the addition of daily flights to Orange County beginning March 18 the airport is anticipating 2016 ridership to increase in the double-digits to 300,000. The year-round daily roundtrip flight to Orange County's John Wayne Airport will be operated by subsidiary Horizon Air using 76-seat Q400 turboprop aircraft, the same ones seen coming in and out of Santa Rosa currently. Cynthia Sweeney/North Bay Business Journal
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Delta, Paulding residents voice opposition to airport commercialization in environmental assessment process -- A group of Paulding County (Ga.) residents and Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines voiced strident opposition to plans to attract airline service to Paulding's airport. A filing by an attorney for a group of residents in Paulding said the Federal Aviation Administration should not attempt "to transform a sleepy general aviation airport... into an airport served by limitless numbers of large, commercial passenger and cargo, turbine-powered aircraft." Kelly Yamanouchi/Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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How Dallas failed on Love Field gates, in the judge's own words -- Hey, judge: Tell us what to do. We sure can't do it ourselves. That's one of the themes - and harsh lines - in the ruling that came down Friday on the dispute over gates at Love Field. The 42-page opinion takes some hard shots at the city of Dallas in particular. Delta Air Lines, portrayed as sympathetic and reasonable, won an injunction to keep running five daily flights from Love. Mitchell Schnurman/Dallas Morning News
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Delta passes United to become No. 2 U.S. airline -- Delta Air Lines Inc. passed United Continental Holdings Inc. to become the second-largest airline in the U.S., topping its rival for the first time since a series of mergers changed the industry landscape. Delta now sits behind only American Airlines Group Inc. as the country's biggest carrier by traffic, a common gauge of carrier size, according to the airlines. Airline traffic is a common way to measure size, in addition to revenue and passenger count. Bloomberg
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United Airlines sales hurt by Paris attacks, weaker oil industry demand -- United Airlines said on Monday that its passenger unit revenue may have fallen more than expected in the just ended fourth quarter, after the November attacks in Paris shook traveler demand and sharply lower oil prices hurt sales to the Houston hub carrier's energy clients. Passenger unit revenue, which compares ticket sales to flight capacity, fell between 5.75 percent and 6.25 percent in the fourth quarter from a year ago, United Continental Holdings Inc said in a regulatory filing. Reuters
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United Airlines intros new system to reunite customers with lost dentures and lots more -- Items get lost or left behind on airplanes. Plenty of them, as United Airlines can attest. In a note to employees last week, however, the Chicago-based airline said a new system for reuniting customers with misplaced items such as tablets, cell phones, stuffed animals - and even dentures (yikes!!) - that was introduced in late 2014 has dramatically helped increase the number of misplaced articles reunited with their owners. Lewis Lazare/Chicago Business Journal
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Southwest, Virgin America report higher December traffic -- Southwest Airlines Co. said Monday that traffic rose 8.6 percent in December, leaving fewer empty middle seats. The average flight was 83 percent full last month, compared with 82.7 percent in December 2014. Dallas-based Southwest said it continues to expect that a key figure - revenue for every seat flown one mile - was flat to down 1 percent in the fourth quarter. That suggests average fares were lower than in late 2014. AP
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Frontier Airlines exec, who coined term 'ULCC,' plans rapid growth -- Former Spirit CEO Ben Baldanza may have left the stage for now, but the man who worked beside him for 14 years at two airlines is still very much engaged in shaking up the U.S. airline industry. Barry Biffle, the president of privately held, Denver-based Frontier Airlines, worked closely with Baldanza at US Airways and then at Spirit. "I talked to him multiple times a day for 14 years," Biffle said Thursday. Ted Reed/Dallas Morning News
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ANA to purchase stake in Vietnam Airlines -- Japan's All Nippon Airways has made headway with plans to invest in Southeast Asia's fast-growing aviation market by agreeing to purchase a stake in Vietnam Airlines. Japan's biggest airline group by revenue has signed a memorandum of understanding with Vietnam Airlines to buy an 8.8 per cent stake for Vnd2.431bn ($108m). The state-controlled airline held an initial public offering in 2014. Tanya Powley & Kana Inagaki/Financial Times
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Airline service provider trade associations start worldwide partnership -- The U.S. based Airline Service Providers Association (ASPA) and Switzerland based Airport Services Association (ASA) have signed an agreement forming a partnership between the two groups coordinating their efforts worldwide on behalf of their members. ASPA Press Release
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Global air freight demand may have bottomed out: IATA -- The decline in global demand for air freight may be bottoming out, with cargo volumes growing month-on-month in November, the International Air Transport Association said on Monday. Air freight volumes were down 1.2 per cent in November compared with a year earlier, but total cargo volumes were up when compared with October 2015, IATA said. Reuters
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Worldwide flight services to acquire Consolidated Aviation -- Worldwide Flight Services will acquire Consolidated Aviation Services, the airline ground handling company announced Monday, in a deal that will expand WFS operations in the U.S. The acquisition is the first big purchase since Paris-based WFS was bought by Platinum Equity LLC last October. The California-based private equity firm said at the time that it would back a global growth strategy for WFS, one of the world's largest air cargo handlers. Paul Page/Wall Street Journal
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Airbus sold most jets in 2015, but Boeing delivered more -- Airbus won hundreds more plane orders last year than rival Boeing, but the American company handed over more aircraft to customers. Airbus SA said Tuesday that it exceeded its targets in 2015, taking in 1,036 net orders and delivering 635 jets to airlines and other buyers. The manufacturer based in Toulouse, France, has a backlog of 6,787 aircraft worth $996.3 billion at list prices, though customers usually negotiate discounts. AP
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FAA orders checks on a handful of 777 engines -- Following an uncontained engine failure and fire as a Boeing-built British Airways 777 jet took off in Las Vegas last September, the Federal Aviation Administration is initially mandating inspections of just six specific engines of similar age, configuration and usage flying in the U.S. The FAA airworthiness directive, set to be published Tuesday in the Federal Register, requires an inspection of three metal disks in the innards of the six GE-90 engines, and replacement of the parts if any anomaly is found. Dominic Gates/Seattle Times
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NFL consensus builds for a Rams-Chargers stadium project in Inglewood -- On the brink of a vote that could return the NFL to Los Angeles, a consensus is building within the league for the St. Louis Rams and San Diego Chargers to share a stadium in Inglewood. Multiple league officials and owners not involved with the Inglewood project, or the competing proposal in Carson, say there is momentum to pair the two franchises in what one owner describes as a "transformational" project backed by the Rams. Sam Farmer & Nathan Fenno/Los Angeles Times
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