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One TSA line worth the wait -- No one likes to be stuck in a long, slow-moving security line at the airport. Unless you meet the person you're going to marry. That's what happened to Josh Mankiewicz and Anh Tu Dang in 2009 at the Los Angeles International Airport, thanks to Transportation Security Administration procedures. Their conversation was brief and friendly. Luckily, Mr. Mankiewicz, a correspondent since 1995 for the NBC News magazine program "Dateline," could read the upside-down tag hanging from Ms. Dang's bag. Jamie Diamond/New York Times
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2.9M Southland residents will travel this Memorial Day weekend -- More than two million Southland residents are expected to travel this Memorial Day weekend, officials said Friday. According to the Automobile Club of Southern California, nearly 2.9 million people will travel from Southern California, totaling the largest number in more than a decade. According to the Auto Club, a record of 849,000 travelers are expected to pass through Los Angeles International Airport this weekend, marking today and Monday as the busiest days. Los Angeles has been ranked sixth on the list of destinations for travelers across the country. CBS LA
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Increase in passenger volume points towards busy travel season for John Wayne Airport -- With passenger volume trending 10% higher than last year, John Wayne Airport is heading toward another year of record volume, and a busy summer travel season. High passenger volume during peak travel periods increases demand for Airport parking, and may mean longer lines for security screening. Airport parking structures have reached capacity several times this year, and this trend will likely occur again during peak travel periods. JWA News Release
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Heading to JWA this weekend? Tips to make your flight -- If you're traveling by plane this weekend, get to the airport early. John Wayne Airport is expecting a busy travel season packed with lots of passengers, increased demand for airport parking and long security lines. The airport had more than 10 million passengers in 2015, an airport record; it's on track to have another record breaking year. In 2015, almost 167,000 passengers traveled between the Thursday before and the Tuesday after Memorial Day. Hannah Madans/Orange County Register
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Best travel shoes for getting through airport security lines quickly -- As Memorial Day approaches, summer travel is in full swing. If you've been watching the news lately, crippling long security lines at airports have prompted the replacement of the current the head of security at the Transportation Security Administration. So for those of you that don't want to be singled out - and possibly heckled - by your fellow travelers for holding up security lines as you unlace and lace your shoes, now's the time to invest in a pair of slip-ons that make it easy to navigate these checkpoints. Barbara Schneider-Levy/Footwear News
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Huge bonuses and forced transfers were downfall of top TSA official Kelly Hoggan -- The downfall of a top official in the Transportation Security Administration this week came amid allegations of under-the-radar �bonuses and targeted retribution at the highest levels of the agency. One of the practices that led to Kelly Hoggan's removal as head of the TSA's crucial security division is common enough to have a name: smurfing. Ashley Halsey III/Washington Post
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Editorial: Call off the clowns and fully fund airport security -- Just how long are security lines at U.S. airports? So long that American Airlines says 70,000 of its passengers missed flights last year due to screening delays. So long that 450 of its customers missed flights in just one airport last weekend. So long, that it may now be faster to drive the 400 miles to Grandma's house than to fly in some cases. So long that some airports have hired clowns and miniature horses to distract bored travelers. Los Angeles Times Editorial Board
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Airport screening made 70,000 miss American Airlines flights this year -- Airport screening delays have caused more than 70,000 American Airlines customers and 40,000 checked bags to miss their flights this year, an executive for the airline told a U.S. congressional subcommittee on Thursday. A shortage of staff and a surge in air travelers have created a nightmare scenario for the U.S. Transportation Security Administration, with airport wait times in places like Chicago stretching beyond two hours. Jeffrey Dastin/Reuters
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Lawmakers unveil bills to speed up airport wait times -- Lawmakers in the House and Senate have introduced several bills this week aimed at alleviating massive airport security lines, a problem that is only expected to worsen if action is not taken ahead of the peak summer travel season. Neither chamber is ready to provide a fresh injection of cash to the Transportation Security Administration, though appropriators are working on fiscal 2017 spending legislation that would allocate extra money to the TSA for new screeners and bomb-sniffing dog teams. Melanie Zanona/The Hill
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Are airport security lines getting any better? -- It's been less than two weeks since the head of Homeland Security announced a plan to reduce the marathon wait times at airports across the country, and some airports are already seeing some relief. Last week, Chicago's two major airports were recommending travelers arrive three hours ahead of their domestic flight times to get through the security checkpoints. This week, there's an average wait time of 15 minutes for security lines at O'Hare, according to American Airlines spokeswoman Leslie Scott in Chicago. Kathryn Vasel/CNN Money
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Delta COO: How we can speed up security lines -- With the furor over long airport security lines growing, Delta Air Lines debuted a new system Wednesday it hopes will help solve the problem. The long waits at security checkpoints across the nation have frustrated travelers this spring, with airlines warning passengers to arrive at least two hours early. The situation is only expected to get worse this summer. About 231 million passengers will fly on U.S. airlines from June through August, up 4 percent from the same period last year, according to the trade group Airlines for America. Michelle Fox/CNBC
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JetBlue CEO on TSA security delays, proposed Cuba flights -- JetBlue is one of several airlines working with the TSA to shorten the wait on long security lines. The budget airline is also expanding in several American cities and expects to reach 1,000 flights a day by July. In his first broadcast network interview, JetBlue president and CEO Robin Hayes joins "CBS This Morning" to discuss what his company is doing to help shorten the wait, its goal to fly to Cuba and its "Mint" experience. CBS News
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Low morale at TSA contributing to high turnover rates, long lines -- Low morale at the Transportation Security Administration has caused screening officers to quit the agency more rapidly than they are being hired, leaving the TSA ill-equipped to handle long airport lines around the country. Some officials fear the trend will continue if workplace conditions do not improve. Transportation security officers (TSOs) are already feeling the crunch of summer travel, forcing some employees to work mandatory overtime shifts, cancel scheduled days off and miss meal and rest breaks. Melanie Zanona/The Hill
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Software glitch temporarily grounds all Los Angeles-bound flights from airports west of Denver -- Days ahead of what is expected to be Southern California's most heavily traveled Memorial Day weekend in a decade, a software issue with air traffic control grounded flights headed for Los Angeles on Thursday morning. The issue kept all Los Angeles International Airport-bound flights from airports west of Denver from departing between 7:20 and 9 a.m., airport and FAA officials said. Flights that already were in the air landed safely, although with a slight delay, officials said. Joseph Serna/Los Angeles Times Willian Avila & Rosa Ordaz/NBC4 City News Service Los Angeles Daily News Rob Hayes/ABC7 CBS LA
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John Wayne Airport posts April 2016 statistics -- Airline passenger traffic at John Wayne Airport increased in April 2016 as compared with April 2015. In April 2016, the Airport served 890,723 passengers, an increase of 7.9% when compared with the April 2015 passenger traffic count of 825,628. Commercial aircraft operations increased 11.6% and commuter aircraft operations decreased 64.0% when compared with April 2015 levels. Total aircraft operations increased in April 2016 as compared with the same month in 2015. JWA News Release LAX Statistics ONT Statistics LGB Statistics PSP Statistics
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Chicago reaps rewards of airport debt rally in Midway sale -- Chicago is benefiting from a rally in airport bonds as the junk-rated city sold about $343 million of federally tax-exempt securities for Midway International Airport to refinance debt and pay for projects. The bonds due in 2046, which have the longest maturity, sold on Wednesday at 3.04 percent yield, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. That's about 0.6 percentage points more than benchmark municipal debt, data compiled by Bloomberg show. Bloomberg
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Court says California privacy law doesn't apply to airlines' mobile apps -- A California law requiring online services to post their privacy policies for customers doesn't apply to an airline's data-gathering mobile app because federal law tightly restricts state regulation of airlines, a state appeals court ruled Wednesday. The First District Court of Appeal in San Francisco said the state law can't be enforced because the federal Airline Deregulation Act, signed by President Jimmy Carter in 1978, prohibits states from enforcing any law "related to a price, route or service of an air carrier." Bob Egelko/SF Gate
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Opinion: Airlines and property taxes: A lack of corporate conscience? -- Property taxes are local government's glue to maintain and preserve our American way of life. What distinguishes us Americans from the rest of the world is that our tax system operates on honesty and voluntary compliance and most of us have, what I call, a tax conscience. Based upon recent events, airlines operating in and benefitting from California and its people do not appear to share this conscience. Paul Dictos/Fresno Bee
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Korean Air jet has engine fire in Tokyo, people evacuated -- An engine fire broke out on a Korean Air jet about to take off from a Tokyo airport Friday, and seven people may have been injured, an official said. Firefighters put out the blaze within the hour, and all 302 passengers and 17 crewmembers were evacuated, said Kyosuke Okada, a government official assigned to Haneda Airport. Okada cited unconfirmed reports that two men and five women were injured but said details were unknown. AP
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Searchers detect emergency signal of EgyptAir plane -- Egyptian search teams detected an emergency signal from the wreckage of EgyptAir Flight 804 that could help them locate the aircraft's fuselage on the floor of the Mediterranean Sea, the lead investigator into the disaster said Thursday. The discovery of the signal is a potentially significant break for the Egypt-led search, which so far has been limited to recoveries of small pieces of debris and human remains. The Airbus Group SE A320 aircraft, traveling from Paris to Cairo with 66 passengers and crew aboard, crashed on May 19. Tamer El-Ghobashy, Dahlia Kholaif & Robert Wall/Wall Street Journal
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Gogo receives proposal from 'major' airline to provide Wi-Fi -- Gogo Inc. received a proposal from a "major" airline customer to provide much of that carrier's domestic in-flight Wi-Fi service, and is canceling a $525 million junk bond offering. Gogo would offer Wi-Fi to a "meaningful" portion of the unnamed airline's domestic fleet "that it currently serves," according to a regulatory filing Thursday. The Chicago-based company is still negotiating with the airline, and there's no guarantee a deal will get done, it said. Paul Barbagallo, Mary Schlangenstein & Claire Boston/Bloomberg
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Alaska Airlines commercial shoot rattles nerves in Marin -- Take two. Alaska Airlines' new Boeing 737-900ER aircraft took to the partly cloudy skies of the Bay Area Wednesday for a second day of shooting a low-flying commercial. The sleek airliner was spotted over Marin County, and even scared some residents who were unaware that it would be circling the area closely followed by a film crew in a Learjet. Alaska Airlines is using the San Francisco skyline as the backdrop for a commercial showing off the prized addition its fleet, officials said. Bill Hutchinson/SF Gate
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American Air president says airlines should price the way hotels price -- Airlines need to be more like hotels, which have mastered the art of differentiating their products, said American Airlines President Scott Kirby. "Hotels have done a better job {than airlines} of creating brand where they can run a 50% occupancy and that's OK," Kirby told a Wolfe Research investor conference on Wednesday. "They don't feel like they have to match a hotel somewhere down the road {because} people who want to stay at a Marriott property won't stay at Hilton." Ted Reed/The Street
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United Airlines cancels Houston-to-Nigeria route, its only flight to Africa -- United Airlines will stop flying to Nigeria next month, ending the carrier's only route to Africa because of weakness in the energy sector and difficulty in collecting money from tickets sold in that country. The daily route from Houston to Lagos had underachieved for years but was kept alive because of its importance to Texas-based customers, United Continental Holdings Inc. said in a note to employees Wednesday. Michael Sasso/Bloomberg News
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A former Virgin Atlantic 747-400 is up for sale on E-Bay -- Ever fancied having a Boeing 747 as an ultimate man-cave? Now, you may become the owner of a former Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747, which has been offered for sale at ebay.com with an opening bid reserve of just $299,000, or you can buy it now for $900,000 (transportation and labor costs not included.) According to Concord Aerospace, the seller of the airframe, Lady Penelope (G-VFAB /MSN 24958/LN 1028) was retired "after a illustrious career in the skies for the past 25 years as a part of the Virgin Atlantic fleet." Airways News
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Kings County won't appeal California high-speed rail ruling -- Kings County officials have opted not to appeal a judge's ruling against Central Valley landowners in their ongoing lawsuit against California's high-speed rail project, clearing another legal hurdle to the bullet train. County counsel Colleen Carlson says even though a Sacramento County Court judge ruled against the county in March, the ruling accomplished much of what the county sought. Juliet Williams/AP
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In observance of the Memorial Day holiday, Eye on L.A. Aviation will not be published on Monday. The next edition will be Tuesday, May 31.
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