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Burbank airport now has two names -- The folks who run the San Fernando Valley's commercial airport have been struggling with an identity crisis at the popular transportation hub. Their cure last week resulted in a split personality. For marketing purposes the landing strip known as Burbank Bob Hope Airport is now called Hollywood Burbank Airport. It was also Hollywood Burbank Airport from 1967 to 1978. While the new name is for branding purposes, for legal purposes the facility will still be known as Burbank Bob Hope Airport. Greg Wilcox/Los Angeles Daily News
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John Wayne Airport passenger survey gives high marks for facility -- A recent John Wayne Airport passenger survey has indicated that visitors give Orange County's airport "A" or "B" overall satisfaction ratings, according to a news release. The survey also shows that the proportion of pleasure/leisure travel, at 55%, has returned to levels not seen since 2009, according to a news release, which also reported that the percentage of business travel has decreased from 46% in 2011 to 39% in 2015. Daily Pilot
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Brenner & Mulhall leave Gephardt to form Rosemont Strategies -- Scott Brenner and Kyle Mulhall, who recently left Gephardt Government Affairs, formed Rosemont Strategies. At Gephardt, they focused on the transportation sector with clients such as Los Angeles International Airport and the Port of Oakland and in the tech sector with Google and McAfee. They're bringing over clients including New York Air Brake, PODS and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and Los Angeles World Airports. Isaac Arnsdorf/Politico
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Treasury auctions set for the week of May 9 -- The Treasury's schedule of financing this week includes Monday's regular weekly auction of new three- and six-month bills and an auction of four-week bills on Tuesday. During the week: Los Angeles International Airport, $293 million of revenue bonds. Loop Capital Markets. New York Times
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New plaque honors Morrey Plotkin's community service -- The legacy of longtime Westchester community leader Morrey Plotkin was celebrated during a recent ceremony at the Aviation Rotunda in the Westchester Village shopping center at Sepulveda Boulevard and Howard B. Drollinger Way. A memorial plaque honoring Plotkin, who died in 2014 at age 97, was dedicated at the event sponsored by the LAX Flight Path Museum and Learning Center in cooperation with Los Angeles World Airports and Drollinger Properties. Flight Path Press Release
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Fallen Hero Honor Cart to pass through Tehachapi -- The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have sadly cost the lives of more than 6,600 U.S. Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines. These fallen heroes have paid the ultimate sacrifice for our country. The remains of these fallen travel home aboard aircraft in flag-draped caskets to their final resting place. It was during this journey home when Alaska Airlines baggage handlers and mechanics felt there needed to be a more dignified process for the off-load and transfer of these fallen soldiers. The Alaska Airlines volunteers are making sure the fallen continue to be treated with dignity and respect by dedicating a customized patriotic cart to the Ontario International Airport in Ontario, Calif. Tony D. Strauss/Tehachapi News
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SFO-bound Singapore Airlines #SQ16 interrupted takeoff to avoid collision at Seoul -- Singapore Airlines flight SQ16 to San Francisco was forced to make an emergency stop during takeoff when the controller told the pilots that Korean Air flight KE929 (Airbus A330-200) to St Petersburg (Russia) was crossing the runway without permission. Several tires of the Singapore Airlines Boeing 777-300ER exploded during braking. Ministry of Transportation launched an investigation to understand what could have been a terrible disaster and to determine the exact circumstances and the responsibility of everyone. AirLive.net
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KLM's Dreamliners are now flying to the USA -- KLM is now flying its Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners to the United States. The Dutch carrier made its inaugural Dreamliner flight to the USA on Wednesday, with service between San Francisco International Airport (SFO) and Amsterdam Schiphol Airport (AMS). The inaugural 787 departure for Amsterdam left after a short gate-side celebration marked with cupcakes, balloons, commemorative T-shirts and a ribbon-cutting with KLM executives. Harriet Baskas/USA Today
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Airport handles over 300 unscheduled flights -- Staff at the Edmonton International Airport scrambled to accommodate more than 300 unscheduled flights from north of Fort McMurray this week in what must be the largest emergency airlift in Alberta history. Canadian North and WestJet ran shuttle services back and forth between Edmonton and the work camps while Air Canada brought in extra Boeing 777s, the airships of Canadian skies, to keep mobile workers moving home to Newfoundland, Ontario and B.C. Elise Stolte/Edmonton Sun
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Havana Jose Marti International Airport: Exciting times and the opportunity to become a regional hub -- As a result of the restoration of diplomatic relations between Cuba and the United States of America the President Barack Obama visited Cuba in Mar-2016. In his speeches he placed heavy emphasis on youth, generational shift and the future (the main protagonist of the old guard, Fidel Castro, rejected Obama's visit and his words of reconciliation). This has whetted the appetite of airlines, airport operators, ATM providers and investors seeking opportunities there. CAPA Centre for Aviation
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Atlanta airport hotel project moving forward -- A project to build a hotel next to the domestic terminal at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport is moving forward. The airport is seeking Atlanta City Council approval of a 50-year lease with Majestic Carter Atlanta Mixed Use LLC to develop a hotel, office complex and travel plaza on 26.5 acres next to the airport terminal. It will be a high-profile addition to the airport terminal and introduce new amenities for the millions of travelers that pass through Hartsfield-Jackson. Kelly Yamanouchi/Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Hartsfield-Jackson plans to bring back public phones in terminal -- Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport plans to put public telephones in the terminal again, seeking a company to operate phones on a five-year contract. The Atlanta airport previously had free public phones that were paid for with advertising displayed on screens on the phones. That contract expired and the devices were removed. Before that, Hartsfield-Jackson had hundreds of payphones. Kelly Yamanouchi/Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Battle for Norwegian Air International's U.S. operating permit -- When the U.S. Transportation Department tentatively approved Norwegian Air International's (NAI) application for a foreign air carrier permit under the U.S.-EU open skies agreement last month, it looked like a two-year impasse was finally broken. But further delays are now likely after opponents in the U.S. have taken the unprecedented step of introducing a bill in the House of Representatives to prevent this from happening. Cathy Buyck & Madhu Unnikrishnan/Aviation Week
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The 'Southwest Effect' works on international flights, too -- For years, airline industry analysts have used the term "Southwest Effect" to describe how airfares offered by the nation's major carriers decline after Southwest Airlines starts to compete with those airlines on specific domestic routes. Now that the airline has started to serve international destinations, it seems that the same "Southwest Effect" extends to foreign routes, according to a study by Rick Seaney, chief executive of the travel website farecompare.com. Hugo Martin/Los Angeles Times
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Regional airlines face vexing problems - does Delta Connection have answers? -- The Regional Airline Association opens its annual convention Monday with the industry facing an economic crisis reflected in a pilot shortage, but also entering a period of rejuvenation enabled by new airplanes and, perhaps, better operating performance. The convention takes place in Charlotte, the second biggest hub for American, and also a hub that symbolizes the industry's dependence on regional partners. Ted Reed/The Street
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Ivy League economist ethnically profiled, interrogated for doing math on American Airlines flight -- On Thursday evening, a 40-year-old man - with dark, curly hair, olive skin and an exotic foreign accent - boarded a plane. It was a regional jet making a short, uneventful hop from Philadelphia to nearby Syracuse. Or so dozens of unsuspecting passengers thought. The curly-haired man tried to keep to himself, intently if inscrutably scribbling on a notepad he'd brought aboard. Catherine Rampell/Washington Post
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American Airlines pilot seniority integration faces lawsuit by US Airways pilots -- A group of pilots from original US Airways has filed a lawsuit challenging the ongoing seniority integration process at American Airlines, where an arbitration panel is preparing a seniority list. Always a complicated process, the integration of pilot seniority lists following the 2013 merger of American and US Airways has been made far more complicated by a continuing dispute between pilot groups following the 2005 merger of US Airways and America West. Ted Reed/TheStreet
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World's worst airline, North Korea's oddball Air Koryo, is still in business -- The worst airline in the world flies regularly to only four or five destinations, departing from the despotic nation of North Korea. Air Koryo, the state-run Korean airline, rates as the only 1-star carrier on flight consultancy firm SkyTrax. Much-maligned airlines like Spirit Airlines and RyanAir at least earn two stars, putting them on the same playing field as Iran Air and Cubana Air. While Air Koryo stands alone - at the bottom - the issues with the North Korean airline stems more from comfort than safety. Matt Levin/Houston Chronicle
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Gogo earnings, revenue beat expectations -- Gogo Inc. said revenue climbed in the first quarter, though the in-flight wireless Internet provider's loss deepened amid increased spending. Still, the results beat Wall Street expectations. Gogo lately has fought hard to fend off competition from rival ViaSat Inc. Earlier this week, Gogo announced awards with Delta Air Lines Inc. and International Airlines Group for its faster, satellite-based 2Ku service. Joshua Jamerson/Wall Street Journal
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Summer airfares to hit 7-year low-book now -- Summer is nearly here, which is good news for so many reasons: more time at the beach, ample opportunities for eating-and drinking-al fresco, and hey, that little thing called vacation. Even better? Airfare predictor app Hopper found in a report that this summer, domestic airfares will be the cheapest they've been since 2009. As a whole, flight prices this summer will be down 12.5 percent from last year and more than 20 percent from two years ago, which echoes earlier findings showing that destinations continue to get a whole lot cheaper. Katherine LaGrave/Conde Nast Traveler
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Travel industry worries about long TSA lines this summer -- The head of the Department of Homeland Security acknowledges that airport security lines have gotten longer but he said that any real fixes to the problem will require money. Congress has sent mixed signals about whether it will free up the money. That is making travel industry leaders nervous because even the talk of airport gridlock could scare off Americans from traveling this summer. Hugo Martin/Los Angeles Times
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US airlines enlist travelers in effort to cut security lines -- U.S. airlines have been pressing the government to act to reduce the intolerably long security lines at the nation's airports. Now, they're even asking passengers for help by sharing their frustration on social media. Lines during peak hours at some airports have topped 90 minutes. The airlines already are warning customers to arrive at the airport two hours in advance, and are fearful the situation will only get worse with a record number of travelers expected this summer. Scott Mayerowitz/AP
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Pan Am Flight 6 Ditching in Pacific Ocean - October 16, 1956
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