Entries from LAist tagged with 'southwestairlines'
January 25, 2008
Tuesday, a 16-year-old California teenager was arrested in Nashville after a Southwest Airlines flight Los Angeles. The AP reports that "Authorities searched the teen's home in California and found a mock cockpit... The teen's parents were reportedly unaware he was traveling to Nashville." Rumors floated around the media saying the teen planned to crash the plane into a Louisiana Hannah Montana concert. The 16-year-old was taken into custody by airport police without incident on Tuesday......
Continue Reading "CA Teen Arrested for Plans of Plane Hijack"November 19, 2007
Hearing that Burbank's Bob Hope Airport might be grounding flights this morning, I headed over there at 5:30am. They were still allowing in the usual traffic, in spite of the fact that everyone was swerving all over the road in the dense fog. I almost got T-boned by a Flyaway shuttle. I spoke to a few passengers who were heading back to the parking structure after being told their flight to San Francisco was......
Continue Reading "Burbank's Bob Hope Airport Status Still Unclear"November 16, 2007
ExperienceLA.com and Lonely Planet are running a community based Downtown photo contest. If you win, you're photo will be on the cover of the free guide that will distributed around LA and all over the world. And while you're Downtown shooting photos, drop by Pershing Square to go ice skating through the holidays. The tunnel on the 5 Freeway where a fiery crash killed three, shutting down the tunnel for over a month, reopened......
Continue Reading "Extra, Extra: Go Ice Skating Downtown!"July 14, 2007
After an extensive 7-year study by LAist about how celebrities choose to fly, we have come to conclusion that the superstars choose Southwest Airlines and the the stars of a past day or just the weird ones take United Airlines. Over the past 7-years, we have flown with: - Vince Vaughn on Southwest Airlines from LAX to Chicago Midway (boarded with the disabled and children/familes) - Philip Seymour Hoffman on Southwest Airlines from Burbank to......
Continue Reading "Celebs Who Take Southwest & United Airlines"December 16, 2005
Around four o'clock this afternoon, a Southwest Airlines flight getting ready for takeoff at Burbank's Bob Hope Airport stopped on the runway. A passenger -- who may have been in his early 20s, and may have been drunk, may have been with a group of other drunk people -- said something that alarmed the flight attendants and made the pilot stop the plane without even returning to the gate. All passengers were evacuated safely.......
Continue Reading "Just don't say the B word"November 7, 2005
No two words can better describe a decadent weekend for the Angeleno than Las Vegas. This LAist poster joined the masses at the Bob Hope (a/k/a Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena) Airport on Friday afternoon for a Southwest Airlines 3 PM cattle call to the city of Lost Wages. And we didn’t mind a bit. OK, maybe a little -- but we still love us the Bob Hope… Here’s the timeline from Friday that some can probably relate......
Continue Reading "Why Bob Hope Rules"September 30, 2004
The Los Angeles Times reports today that a Southwest Airlines ticketing lobby in Terminal 1 of LAX was evacuated yesterday when "a man was found to have a rocket launcher in his checked luggage." Although the man was a defense contractor and the weapon was "only a training weapon" that had "been modified and no longer launched rockets," LAist can't help but send kudos to the security staff at LAX for finally catching something......
Continue Reading "Rocket Man"