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What’s in store for 2011
- Airbus A380 returns to LAX
- After working out engine problems, Qantas will announce resumption of A380 service from LAX to Sydney and Melbourne in January 2011.
- Singapore Airlines will replace a Boeing 747-400 with an A380 on the LAX-Tokyo Narita-Singapore route effective May 27, 2011. This may not pressure ANA or Japan Airlines to buy A380’s as ANA is adding non-stop service to Tokyo-Haneda service. Delta is also adding a Haneda service with a Boeing 747-400 on February 19, 2011.
- More international flights
- Turkish Airlines to LAX-Istanbul, Turkey, March 3, 2011.
- American Airlines (April 5) and United Airlines (May 20) to Shanghai, China
- Iberia to add LAX-Madrid, Spain service in April 20, 2011. Iberia returns to LAX after serving LAX from 1984 to 1997. The addition of this service is due to the US anti-trust approval of the trans-Atlantic joint venture of American Airlines, British Airways and Iberia Airlines.
- Mexicana may return to LAX if revived by late January 2011.
- Note that none of these new flights are due to a subsidy from the City of Los Angeles to the airlines (This is a common practice used by other US airports to lure British Airways and Lufthansa to add international flights).
- LAX Master Plan Yellow Light Projects. Now on its third Mayor and fourth Executive Director, the LAX Master Plan is again mired in controversy with proposals to move the north runway 400 feet closer to the Westchester/Playa del Rey community. These proposals again will delay completion of “modernizing” LAX because of LAX’s failure to work with the community to come up with win-win solutions. There are ways to make LAX safe and efficient without moving runways, noise, traffic and pollution closer to residential areas. If the downtown LA business community is smart, then they will stop pushing the same lies that LAX is losing flights to other airports and that the LAX north airfield is unsafe. Instead, they should work with Westchester/Playa del Rey in coming up with the win-win solutions that do not move runways north. Joe Czyzyk, are you reading this? If the business community does not understand that quality of life is important to have an attractive business climate, then they are heartless.
- Ontario International Airport. More movement will be seen to put ONT back in the operational control of the City of Ontario.
8 comments:
You can add one more prediction and that is that Gina Marie Lindsey will announce next week that she's leaving LAWA to run the Washington DC airports. She was one of the final 3 candidates who were interviewed this past week and word is that she has used her machiavellian skills to force her way into the job. I know that every one who works at LAX will wish her good. . . riddance.
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While it is possible, even probable that Gina Marie will go to Washington, not everyone will be glad to see her go. She has accomplished a huge amount while at LAWA, and has shown the LAWA Board what a real Executive Director ought to be at LAWA, as opposed to a string of non-Airport people holding that position.
She has built a strong and capable staff and will leave LAWA several times stronger than she found it.
Can you blame her for wanting to leave? The petty politics she has had to endure from our B.S. City Council would be enough to make anyone with integrity leave.
They have screwed up half the procurements trying to find advantage for their "friends" (read "supporters" and "contributors") and have made a mockery of honest competition at LAWA. Their action discourages honest bidders from even competing, due to the lobbying and backroom deals that plague every contract.
Gina Marie has been great for Los Angeles, and we will be lucky to find a replacement half as good as her.
One can only hope that folks like Steve Martin, Roger Johnson, Mike Molina. Mike Feldman and others will stay to complete the work she has begun.
(It will be fine with most, however, if she would take Kelly Martin and Debbie Bowers with her)
Here's a flash for you all; Gina Marie is NOT leaving. Period.
She signed on to stay for the Myor's term and she will, unless the fools at The City Clowncil drive her away.
There is no reason that she and Roger Johnson should have to put up with the crap that the know nothings at the Clowncil dish out, especially Cardenas, Reyes and Alarcon. If they are wise, they will leave her alone and let her run the airport while they bankrupt the city.
We never had so much progress as we have now, certainly not with Lydia, who simply rearranged the deck chairs on the Titanic with one foot out the door at all times.
We are damn lucky to have Gina Marie and the crew she has brought aboard.
Be careful what you wish for...
Well, January 28th has come and gone (so has February 28) and lo and behold, Gina Marie is still here in Los Ageles, kicking ass and taking names.
Wishful thinker's prediction seems to have evaporated, along with his computer sending capability.
The truth is, we are damn lucky to have Gina Marie and her crew here to make LAX come back to life. We haven't seen the likes of her since Cliff Moore left.
Hey, March 28 has also come and gone, but Gina Marie is still here...how does the January 28 prognosticator explain that one?
Don't believe everything you hear, and only half of what you see.
Gosh, it looks like April 28 has passed us by...where's Gina Marie?
Last I lkooked, she was at lAWA, ready to attend the May 2 meeting.
So, how do you like your crow? Salted, peppered? Cooked a jus or over easy?
Don't believe everything you hear and only part of what you see...
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