Burbank's Bob Hope Airport is losing a major airline. American Airlines announced today they are ceasing operation in and out of BUR, though the decision does not stem from the financially troubled company's Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing, but rather just "normal business changes." more ›

Is your flight headed out of Los Angeles International Airport today? Or are you picking someone up from the airport? If so, bring a heaping pile of patience, because today happens to be one of the busiest travel days of the year at LAX. more ›

Remember Steven Slater? He was the JetBlue flight attendant who caught the world's attention when he made a very dramatic exit from his job with the airline in August 2010. Now the ex-employee has been ordered to pay $10,000 in restitution to JetBlue, and says he may move home to Thousand Oaks. more ›

Plan on traveling by plane within the U.S. soon? Then you'll need to plan on paying more per ticket on at least four major airlines, who implemented a ticket price increase Tuesday. Delta Air Lines raised ticket prices by $4, $6, and $10 "across the bulk of their domestic route system," reports Farecompare.com. more ›

Flying AirTran next year? You better start shedding pounds now. AirTran passengers packing extra luggage in their derrières will soon start paying double for their flights. As Southwest integrates AirTran, the budget airline will adopt Southwest's large passengers policy on March 1, 2012. more ›

Hurricane Irene is about to bear down on the Eastern seaboard of the U.S., and while we won't be feeling the effects of her fury here directly, for those in L.A. trying to head to the other side of the nation, serious travel disruptions are in the forecast. more ›

Blame it on "network connectivity" issues: 16 flights on Friday and 15 flights today operated by United Airlines left passengers stranded all over the country, including here in Los Angeles. Flights between San Francisco (SFO) and Los Angeles (LAX) seem to have been particularly affected. more ›

A bit of good news for JetBlue passengers departing from and arriving at Bob Hope Airport in Burbank: Your boarding pass for your flight is also your ticket to ride a Metrolink train to or from the airport, free. more ›

Southwest Airlines' "accidental sunroof" is a little trick they don't want to repeat, which is how about 100 of their flights have come to be canceled today, as the airline continues to put older planes in their fleet through inspections for cracks in the fuselage. more ›

If you live within earshot of the flight paths for Burbank's Bob Hope Airport or the Van Nuys Airport, you aren't going to find any sound relief in this news. The House of Representatives has rejected a proposed legislative amendment that would have imposed nighttime curfews on flights in and out of those two airports, according to the Daily News. more ›

A woman is raising a ruckus about a flight she took from Los Angeles to London's Heathrow, claiming that while on board, she was attacked by bedbugs. Zane Selkirk, 28, says that the spotted the critter on the blanket British Airways had provided her for the first leg of her flight, reports KTLA. more ›

If you're planning to jet away to a surfing destination in the next few weeks, or you've got a surf enthusiast coming in to town for a visit, save room in the budget for packing a surfboard onto the airplane. Surfers have been getting increasingly gouged via fees charged by airlines to shuttle their boards on continental and international flights, according to the OC Beach Blog. more ›

A flight between Los Angeles and Florida this morning was diverted to Albuquerque, New Mexico after a passenger allegedly tried to open a cabin door, says the Associated Press. The FBI believes that 46-year-old Stanley Dwayne Sheffield's actions were not related to terrorism, but he will likely face charges. Delta flight 2148 landed in New Mexico around 1:30 a.m., but eventually made it to Tampa by 4 a.m. more ›

The plume of volcanic ash drifting through European airspace continues to keep air travel on hold, including more flights today departing and arriving at Los Angeles International Airport. NASA has released several images of Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano showing the scope of the natural disaster as captured by the MODIS instrument on the Terra satellite, which communicates with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) here in Los Angeles. more ›

Volcanic ash from Iceland moving through the air travel space over Europe is continuing to ground flights all over the globe. Today approximately 7,250 passengers who were expected to depart from or arrive at Los Angeles International Airport today have found their travel plans canceled, as 14 departing flights and 15 arriving flights will not be taking off or landing today. Travelers headed to and from London/Heathrow, Paris, Amsterdam, Frankfurt and Zurich remain grounded. This is the third consecutive day the volcanic ash has forced the European air space to close; at LAX alone a total so far of 69 in- and outbound flights have been canceled, impacting an estimated 18, 250 passengers. more ›

Virgin America announced today that they will be ceasing operations in and out of Orange County's John Wayne Airport, according to the OC Register. The airline has been running flights between there and San Francisco International since April 2009, when they launched the route with a splashy event that included Virgin chairman Richard Branson strumming a boogie board on the tarmac and appearances by some of the "Real Housewives" ladies. Instead of the JWA-SFO route, Virgin is throwing their focus to two new routes out of LAX, Orlando and Toronto. The last JWA-SFO flight is scheduled for May 26. JWA will welcome Air Canada next month, and says they have a waiting list of airlines interested in replacing Virgin. more ›

Although our palm trees are swaying in the 80 degree warmth, it was wintry snow and blizzard-like conditions that foiled the plans of many travelers looking to leave from LAX yesterday. "At least 38 flights from Los Angeles International airport to East Coast destinations hit by winter storms were canceled Saturday," according to LA Now. more ›

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Times might be tough, but at LAX, making good use of the aging Tom Bradley International Terminal is proving to be tougher. Today, the Los Angeles Board of Airport Commissioners are "expected to approve $1.13 billion in construction contracts to revitalize facilities for international travelers at Los Angeles International Airport and build new gates to accommodate the next generation of large commercial planes," according to LA Now. more ›

In an era when traveling by air has become less and less comfortable physically, and sometimes financially, passengers might take it upon themselves to do whatever they can to make themselves feel at home while on board. Maybe that was what was going through the mind of a US Airways passenger who opted to strip down to his birthday suit during a flight from North Carolina to Los Angeles last night. His actions "caused a diversion in more than one way," explains abc7.com, who were sent photos of the naked air traveler by a fellow passenger. Rather than fly all the way to L.A., however, "the flight had to be diverted to Albuquerque," when the 50-year-old stripped-down passenger "was restrained by two off-duty law enforcement officers, who happened to be onboard," then "was taken into custody by airport police, who called the FBI." For the passenger, whose name has not been released, his trip ended in New Mexico, while the flight he'd been on resumed its course and landed in Los Angeles. more ›

Popular low-cost carrier JetBlue debuts their new service to LAX this morning, as they are scheduled to land their inaugural flight from New York's JFK at 10:45. It's been a bit of a wait, however, for the airline to begin service from our major airport; today's launch comes after "a yearlong delay," caused by a period of soaring fuel prices that made cross-country air travel costly, reports the Daily Breeze. more ›

It all started with a blogger: Last week news broke that budget airline JetBlue was thinking of pulling out of Long Beach Airport (LGB) after their CEO said as much to the blogger behind Crankyflier.com. Although formal meetings are on the books for LGB's Director, Mario Rodriguez, and JetBlue CEO Dave Barger back east later this month, the pair wound up having an impromptu lunch at In-N-Out Burger on Thursday. more ›

Just weeks after announcing the addition of more flights from Burbank Airport, discount airline Skybus is closing down today and plans to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The shutdown was revealed late yesterday; all flights were completed Friday, but the airline had flights scheduled through to September 2, reports the Daily News. more ›

Bargain airliner Skybus is adding a route into Burbank's Bob Hope Airport starting Monday. The airline has two US hubs, and has been operating flights to and from the one in Columbus, Ohio for some time now, and is now linking BUR with its other hub in Greensboro, North Carolina. more ›