Cranky Flier » All Tags » lgb - long beach (RSS)

Browse by Tags

Cranky Flier

Home

Report this Blog for Abuse

Syndication

Archives

Cranky on the Web (March 12 – 16)

GUEST POST: Yee HAW! Cranky Flier An LA Airports Roundup!! – Aviation Queen The Queen asked for guest posts, and I was happy to oblige. I always like to talk airports with her, so this time, I did a little SoCal round-up. Bob Hope Airport faces...

Published Sat, Mar 17 2012 10:45 AM by The Cranky Flier

Filed under: LAX - Los Angeles, LGB - Long Beach, BUR - Burbank, ONT - Ontario
Onboard a Boeing 787 Dreamliner

Don’t get too excited. I didn’t actually get to fly on one. But I did get invited to come take a tour of a 787 while it was on the ground here in Long Beach as part of a tour around North America. Of course, I was thrilled to do it. I had...

Published Thu, Mar 15 2012 10:45 AM by The Cranky Flier

Filed under: LGB - Long Beach, Boeing, 787
Long Beach Aviation Friends Meeting Next Wednesday at 630p

For those who are local here in Southern California, next Wednesday October 12 is the next quarterly meeting for the Long Beach Aviation Friends group. The meeting starts at 630p at AirFlite (3250 Airflite Way, Long Beach, CA 90807). You should come....

Published Wed, Oct 5 2011 11:45 AM by The Cranky Flier

Filed under: LGB - Long Beach
JetBlue’s Long Haul Flights Slowly Disappearing From Long Beach

When I saw JetBlue announce it was moving its flight to Ft Lauderdale from Long Beach to LAX, I wasn’t surprised. It was just one more step in the effort to move long hauls away from Long Beach and into LAX. Looking back at JetBlue’s nearly...

Published Mon, Feb 7 2011 11:45 AM by The Cranky Flier

Filed under: JetBlue, LGB - Long Beach
Long Beach’s 75,000 Pound Weight Limit

It’s been awhile since I last wrote about Long Beach, so I thought last week’s Airport Advisory Commission meeting would be a good opportunity for me to bring it up again. Now that the plans for the new terminal (scheduled to break ground...

Published Tue, Jul 21 2009 3:16 PM by The Cranky Flier

Filed under: Government Regulation, LGB - Long Beach
This Week on BNET (May 25 - 29)

Long Beach Airport Garage and Terminal Plans Move Forward The airport is starting to put forth more concrete plans, and it’s sounding pretty good. Southwest Pushes WestJet Codeshare, Shifts Priorities WestJet announced yesterday that Southwest was...

Published Sat, May 30 2009 3:58 PM by The Cranky Flier

Filed under: United, Southwest, Air New Zealand, LGB - Long Beach, BNET, Alliances, Westjet, Advertising, Labor Relations
Long Beach City Council Responds to JetBlue with Mixed Signals

For those of you who don’t live in the LA area, the interview with Dave Barger I published last week is probably a distant memory. But for those living in this area, and especially those in Long Beach, this has become a very hot topic indeed. A...

Published Thu, Apr 9 2009 4:11 PM by The Cranky Flier

Filed under: JetBlue, LGB - Long Beach
JetBlue Back at LAX, Should We Believe Them This Time?

It was almost a year ago that JetBlue announced it would begin flying to LAX in addition to its main Southern California operation at Long Beach along with smaller operations at Burbank and Ontario. Once fuel started climbing, they walked away from LAX...

Published Tue, Feb 3 2009 3:54 PM by The Cranky Flier

Filed under: Schedule Changes, LAX - Los Angeles, JetBlue, LGB - Long Beach
Burbank Looks to Add Curfew While LAX Keeps Expanding

Remember that whole strategy from LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa about airport regionalization? Well, it took yet another step backward yesterday with the recommendation of the Burbank airport authority to enact a hard curfew (via this excellent Airliners...

Published Tue, Mar 25 2008 3:00 PM by The Cranky Flier

Filed under: LAX - Los Angeles, LGB - Long Beach, Korean Air, BUR - Burbank

Browse by Tags

Syndication

Recent Posts

Tags

Archives