The forward-thinking folks at LAX know as well as anyone how much of a hassle airline travel can be; weather delays, unforeseen luggage mishaps, and plenty of other aviation-related issues can always put a damper on your departure. While many of these annoyances are far beyond our control, you could at least use a decent heads up on your flight's situation. Rather than rolling the dice, hoping your flight is on time or resorting to using a confusing automated call system offered by your carrier of choice, Los Angeles Airport's new website takes the burden of flight updates off of the of your individual carrier's wings, and makes it their own problem. LAX's site eases your terminal headaches by providing up to the minute flight status updates on both arrivals and departures, while also giving you a chance to reserve your own parking space prior to making the trip to the landing strip. If only the site could tell you if you'll be sitting next to a screaming infant.


At Home with kim vallee Thursday, 03.20.08 @ 11:20 am

It is a step in the right directions for arrivals and departures. For the rest of information a traveler to LAX may need - like baggage claim, lost & found - the site is pretty quiet.


JuJu Wednesday, 05.28.08 @ 10:36 am

To be fair, a lot of airport websites provide up to the minute arrival and departure information. But, I guess that most don’t display it on their home page.


Matt Gierhart Tuesday, 06.03.08 @ 2:25 am

I agree that a airports website can be so important to get information fast. Here is a really cool idea that I came across in all places the Midland, TX airport (don’t ask why I was there). I tried to sign on to the internet and it was one of the hotspots that your browser gets highjacked asking you to pay a fee to access the net. Well on the screen your browser takes you to it had up-to-date flight info for all arrivals and departures. Which was so useful. I didn’t buy a subscription to use the net that day, but it was so nice having a landing page for a pay-hot spot actually have useful information on it.




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