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3 Links I Love: LAX Musical Chairs, A New Airline in Burbank, Airport Board Game

This week’s featured link

Midfield Satellite Concourse Management Report to the Board of Commissioners – LA World Airports
The new Midfield Satellite Concourse at LAX is substantially complete and should be opening relatively soon. This recent report to the board shows a bunch of photos. Most interesting to me, however, mentions that airlines that currently operate in Bradley, T5, and T6 will move there. I asked LAWA for names, but they aren’t talking yet.

Game of the Week: Of course it took an airline employee to invent a board game about traveling through the airport during the time of COVID. She sent me a review copy, and I have to say, it was a lot of fun. My 7 year-old daughter asked if we could play again the next night (and the next night, and the next night), so don’t pay attention to the “12 and up” label. The general idea is to get from your home to the ticket counter, past TSA, through the terminal, and on to your airplane. Interested? It’s currently for sale on a crowd-sourcing site, so the more people who buy, the cheaper it gets. Check it out here before the sale ends on March 14.

Two for the road

Open Positions – Avelo
Start-up airline Avelo has quietly changed many of its job listings from saying the location is in the LA area to now saying Burbank. Giddyup…

Interim Financial Results 2021 – Air New Zealand
You would think that a country heavily dependent on international tourism like New Zealand would have an airline with a disastrous result. It’s not nearly as bad as I figured. For the last 6 months of 2021, revenues were down 59 percent on capacity being down 65 percent. Incredibly, domestic capacity is at three-quarters of pre-COVID levels because Kiwis are all flying domestically, replacing much of the lost international tourism.