NEWS: LAX Expansion Plans Get the Smack Down

An $11 billion dollar LAX modernization plan has been halted by a tenacious grassroots effort. After 10 years of planning and court battles LAX has conceded and agreed to a deal that will limit passengers served and will actually reduce the number of gates at the airport. $150 million has already been poured into the planning of the project and now its back to the drawing board. The question in my mind is, what does this do to the plans to rework LAX for the Airbus A380? LAX is already under pressure from future A380 operators that are threatening to take their business elsewhere if the airport cannot keep needed improvements on schedule.

NEWS: A380 Customers tell LAX to get Crackin'

LAX lags in accommodating the A380 Los Angeles International airport, LAX to you and me, is being leaned on to pick up the pace on modifications needed to accomodate the massive A380. Both Singapore Airlines and Virgin Atlantic are telling LAX to get things moving or they may look to other airports. The improvements needed are major and local efforts aimed at slowing or even halting growth at LAX have turned out to be more formidable than anticipated. In the end LAX hopes to handle around 2 dozen A380's a day in 2010...approximately 15000 passengers...a DAY.