View from the control tower

After years of anticipation, yesterday saw the arrival of the first Airbus A380 in regular scheduled service at LAX. Qantas flight 93 from M...

In an earlier entry, I mentioned several cities that only receive cargo flights from LAX. Since then, I've worked an overtime day shift ...

Last time I discussed a few of the various destinations for flights out of LAX. This time we'll continue that theme with a look at desti...

One of the neat things about LAX is the wide variety of destinations with direct service. These days, it's possible to get from almost a...

I apologize for the dearth of recent entries; traffic's been slow and we're having a resurgence of summer temperatures; the two comb...

This post was updated in January, 2011. Airline flight numbers have become increasingly complicated as the industry has matured. Three-digit...