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Site plans for 'B6 parcel' near Bob Hope Airport in the works -- Near Bob Hope Airport, the $72.5-million sale of a roughly 58-acre piece of property sometimes known as the "B6 parcel" is set to close next month, and the buyer hopes to develop the site into a "best-in-class" business park with office, industrial and retail space, plus a hotel. The Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority, which owns the site and approved its sale to Gardena-based Overton Moore Properties in November, voted in closed session last week to set the closing for Feb. 25, one day later than initially planned. Chad Garland/Los Angeles Times
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Competency evaluation ordered for teen in LAX bomb threat -- A Monroe County, Wisc., teen facing felony charges for a bomb threat at Los Angeles International Airport has been ordered to undergo a competency evaluation. The evaluation was ordered at 17-year-old Clint O. Terrell's initial court appearance last week at the request of his defense attorney, Zachariah Fudge. The rural Camp Douglas teen is charged with causing a bomb scare and impersonating an officer after confessing to calling in the Jan. 8 threat that forced the evacuation of Terminal 1 at LAX, according to reports. Matthew Perenchio/La Crosse (Wisc.) Tribune
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Murrieta woman marries man she never met at Ontario Airport -- A Murrieta woman is taking a chance on love - a big chance. Erica Harris married a man she never met in person Friday night at Ontario International Airport. CBS2/KCAL9's Jennifer Kastner caught up with her as she anxiously waited for her groom. "You don't drag your feet with real love. You leap into that like there's no tomorrow, and that's what we're doing," Harris said in her blissful tone. A year ago, she and Arte Vann randomly connected over Instagram. Call it love at first click. But Vann lives in New York. CBS LA Alfred Ng/New York Daily News UK Daily Mail
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QVC readies Ontario distribution center for grand opening -- After decades of being an empty lot, the Meredith property between Vineyard and Archibald avenues north of the 10 Freeway will soon be bustling with commercial activity with the arrival of QVC's first West Coast distribution center. QVC, which sells goods through its home shopping cable television channel and online website, will occupy Building 7 of the seven-building Meredith International Centre, which is being developed by Irvine-based development group Sares Regis. Neil Nisperos/Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
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SBIAA gets 'payday loan' -- The new Sheriff's Aviation headquarters is nearing completion at San Bernardino International Airport, but the San Bernardino International Airport Authority (SBIAA) needs a quick $2.5 million to finish the job. The "payday loan" will come from the Inland Valley Development Agency (IVDA)..The SBIAA has pledged to repay the loan with two percent interest within six months. When the project is complete, money from San Bernardino County, which has a long term lease on the project, and proceeds from the sale of the old Rialto Airport property will more than cover the loan. Highland News
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Torrance commission may block Lexus car lot near airport -- On Wednesday, the county's Airport Land Use Commission will decide whether to uphold a staff recommendation to overturn the city's approval of the dealership expansion because it is inconsistent with policies regulating development around airports that are "intended to minimize public exposure to excessive noise and safety hazards." "The proposed project would convert open/vacant industrial land, which is generally considered compatible with airports, to retail land, a use found incompatible with airports due to safety concerns and high noise levels," states a commission staff report. Nick Green/Torrance Daily Breeze
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JetBlue adds two new cross-country routes -- JetBlue is adding two new transcontinental routes that will bolster its bases in Boston and Fort Lauderdale. From Fort Lauderdale, JetBlue will start nonstop service to San Diego on June 16. The westbound flight will leave Fort Lauderdale at 5:25 p.m. and land in California at 7:32 p.m., all times local. The return is a red-eye, departing San Diego at 10:15 p.m. and landing in Florida at 6:19 a.m. the following morning. Ben Mutzabaugh/USA Today
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Emanuel gets O'Hare runway deal, but no new gates means delays continue -- Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the city's major airlines have struck a deal to build the final runway envisioned in the city's multibillion-dollar modernization of O'Hare International Airport, but new gates that experts agree are key to significant reductions in long-standing flight delays are not part of the pact. The agreement, which the mayor formally announced Saturday, calls for spending $1.3 billion to build a sixth east-west runway at the airfield's north end, de-icing pads to get planes to take off more quickly and new taxiways to pick up the pace of planes going to and from far-flung gates, city officials said. Hal Dardick & Kim Janssen/Chicago Tribune
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Bill advances to ban Salt Lake City airport smoking rooms -- The five special smoking rooms for passengers at the Salt Lake City International Airport could go up in smoke, so to speak. The Senate Health and Human Services Committee voted 4-0 on Friday to advance SB61 to the full Senate. It would outlaw the current smoking rooms, and prevent similar ones that had been planned for new terminal construction. No one spoke in opposition to the bill, and numerous health groups supported it. Lee Davidson/Salt Lake Tribune
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DHS to bring facial recognition technology to airports nationwide -- U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CPB) started using facial recognition technology at John F. Kennedy International Airport to determine if passengers entering the United States are fraudulently using valid passports. Following last year's pilot of the technology, CPB plans to roll out the technology to all U.S. airports that are ports of entry. CPB, an agency within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), said in a Jan. 19 statement that it started using the technology that day at JFK Airport to "help verify a traveler entering the United States matches the passport presented. Phil Goldstein/FedTech
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Brothers divided by air line feud -- While Santa Monica's Surf Air is flying high with customers and investors, the airline's success has left David Eyerly, the company's ex-founder and former chief operating officer, out in the cold. The 31-year-old Everly is fighting Surf Air and several of its investors in court, claiming he has the victim of a complex scheme that not only caused his brother and co-founder, Wade Eyerly, to force him out of the company, but also diluted his ownership by 94 percent, taking him from a 12.5 percent equity position all the way own to .075 percent. Garrett Reim/Los Angeles Business Journal
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American Air CEO: Low share price is 'disconnect' from reality -- American CEO Doug Parker said most investors don't understand what is happening in the airline industry, which is why American is aggressively buying back stock. "In the almost 30 years now that I've been in this business, I can't remember a bigger disconnect between what we're seeing in our airline and in our forward prospects and how the market is treating our stock," Parker said Friday on the carrier's fourth-quarter earnings call. Ted Reed/The Street
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United Airlines Asia strategy & Singapore-US market evolve with Singapore-San Francisco non-stops -- United Airlines is bolstering its presence in the Singapore market with the Jun-2016 launch of non-stop flights to San Francisco with 787-9s. It will be the longest route in United's network and the longest route in the world for the 787, resulting in limited payload restrictions on the westbound leg. The new San Francisco flight will give Singapore a non-stop option to the US for the first time since Singapore Airlines (SIA) dropped non-stops to Los Angeles and Newark in 2013. CAPA Centre for Aviation
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A 16-hour Dreamliner flight with no jet lag? Believe it! -- United Airlines will soon launch what it promises will be the world's longest Boeing 787 flight and the farthest route for any U.S. airline-an 8,446 mile, 16 hour, 20 minute redeye from San Francisco to Singapore. That's a long time to spend in a seat, but this journey may be more comfortable than most, since the 787 is designed to limit jet lag. There's nothing wrong with today's longest U.S. airline route, Delta's 8,439 mile flight from Atlanta to Johannesburg. Brian Sumers/Conde Nast Traveler
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5 Signs that United Airlines is finally getting better -- Let's just say upfront that during the past 25 years, anytime anyone has written that United is finally making substantial improvements in its culture and operations, subsequent events have proven them wrong. The last truly exceptional CEO at United was Steven Wolf. He left in 1994, forced out by pilots. Interestingly, in 2010, Wendy Morse, chairman of the United chapter of the Air Line Pilots Association, said of the seven United CEOs in the preceding 25 years, Wolf was the only one who "left the company better than he found it." Ted Reed/Forbes
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United calls in pilots for extra training -- United Continental Holdings Inc. is taking the unusual step of calling back all 12,000 of its pilots for an extra training day over the next three months, an aggressive response to a spate of serious safety incidents more than a year ago and to prepare for looming changes facing the industry. By the end of April, each aviator at the nation's No. 3 airline by traffic will be required to attend a day of classroom instruction focusing on various safety issues, enhanced teamwork on the flight deck and the changing role of pilots amid rapid industry shifts. Andy Pastor & Susan Carey/Wall Street Journal
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'Gross mismanagement ...' Cathay Pacific pilots slam claim work-to-rule hit airline's growth -- The union representing Cathay Pacific pilots has hit back angrily at claims their work-to-rule action has hampered the airline's growth, saying "gross mismanagement" was instead to blame. Hong Kong Aircrew Officers Association (HKAOA) general secretary Chris Beebe challenged management's assertion that the work-to-rule was to blame for the postponement of new routes and an increase in flight frequency. Simon Parry/South China Morning Post
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Emirates airline confuses San Francisco for New York -- We hope Emirates airline pilots have a better sense of direction than the airline's ad agency. An ad in Italy for the Dubai-based luxury carrier's route from Milan to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport features a picture of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge. "One can only assume the airline meant to include an image of the distinctive Brooklyn Bridge," chuckled our source, who tells us Italians have been poking endless fun at Emirates' coastal confusion on Twitter. Mara Siegler/New York Post
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Incident: Delta B752 near Salt Lake City on Jan 22nd 2016, unruly crew -- A Delta Airlines Boeing 757-200, registration N751AT performing flight DL-2598 from Los Angeles,CA to Minneapolis, MN, was enroute at FL370 about 180nm south of Salt Lake City, UT when the captain decided to divert the aircraft to Salt Lake City telling ATC he wanted to hear from his flight attendants. The aircraft landed safely on Salt Lake City's runway 16R about 40 minutes after leaving FL370. A passenger reported that three cabin crew were sent off due to "bad behavior." Simon Hradecky/The Aviation Herald
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Southwest Airlines and flight instructors reach tentative agreement -- Southwest Airlines Co. announced a tentative agreement (TA) with Transport Workers Union Local 557, the union representing the Company's Flight Instructors. The agreement comes just four weeks after the group's current contract became amendable. "I thank and congratulate the representatives of TWU who worked collaboratively with the Company to reach an agreement to reward our professional and hardworking Flight Instructors," said Southwest's Senior Director of Labor Relations Russell McCrady. Southwest Airlines Press Release
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FAA makes it easier for transgender pilots to get certified -- Transgender pilots are no longer considered to suffer from a gender identity disorder -- that's according to an updated medical guide at the Federal Aviation Administration, which changed its terminology from "gender identity disorder" to what it now calls "gender dysphoria," a more widely-accepted term within the LGBT community. The FAA tells ABC News that the change was intended to streamline the process for transgender pilots and make sure pilots receive medical certification as quickly as possible. Becky Perlow/ABC News
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Boeing profit at stake as rainmaker 737 Max takes to skies -- Chicago-based Boeing Co.'s newest 737 jetliner gunned its engines and headed into rain-streaked skies Friday, with profit and pride riding on its wings. The aerospace company's fortunes depend on a smooth market debut for the 737 Max next year with initial customer Southwest Airlines. More than 60 customers of the 737 were on hand for the initial flight of the plane, christened "The Spirit of Renton," a reference to the Seattle suburb where Boeing has made single- aisle planes since the 1950s. Julie Johnsson & Alexandria Arnold/Bloomberg
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Boeing receives first contract of Air Force One recap -- One year after being announced as prime contractor, Boeing is formally on contract to replace America's 747-200-derived "Air Force One" fleet with up to three modified 747-8 widebodies. The US Air Force announced the sole-source selection of the 747-8 in January 2015, ending any chance of an upset victory by the only Western-built four-engine alternative, the Airbus A380 manufactured in Toulouse, France. James Drew/Flightglobal
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Reports of 'unruly passengers' on planes drop; social media might be the reason -- The number of airline passengers who are reported for disrupting commercial flights has been dropping for several years. But the decline may have more to do with social media than any improvement in fliers' manners. In 2015, the incidents of "unruly passengers" reported to the Federal Aviation Administration fell to 82, from 145 in 2014, a 43% drop. Hugo Martin/Los Angeles Times
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The fortifying pleasures of YouTube cockpit videos -- I follow a Twitter account called AirLive.net, which broadcasts all known aviation crises, usually while the troubled aircraft is in flight. These short reports, made in a pidgin of hashtags and airline codes, start in the early morning, with the European destinations, and continue through the day, often ending with Qantas. To keep a finger on the pulse of aviation is to accept that the pulse is always, somewhere, racing; that the globe is many local problems in communication; and that unexpected landings are not usually fatal. Nathan Heller/The New Yorker
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Metrolink delays nearly doubled last year, records show -- Despite efforts by Metrolink officials to improve service, the number of late trains on Southern California's commuter railroad nearly doubled last year, to the dismay of thousands of riders. Delays surged from 2,382 in 2014 to 4,395 in 2015, with the sharpest increase occurring in August, when about 15% of trains were late compared with less than 7% the year before, according to Metrolink records.
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Flying high: Remembering Pan Am
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