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Los Angeles Introduces reLAXing Improvements

Over the years we’re in and out of Los Angeles International Airport more than any other in the world. We don’t visit LAX because we love it, but it’s just 25 minutes (except during rush hour) from home and necessary for almost all of our air travel plans.

In recent years LAX had been looking a bit shabby, but things are changing for the better. On a flight schedule several weeks ago, we noted the lighting is brighter, the waiting rooms larger and perked up with new seating facilities. The static old signs have been replaced by video-enhanced displays that make everything more inviting. The dingy little shops are being replaced by larger, contemporary retail areas.

There’s now the impressive-looking Great Hall, the Antonio Villaraigosa Pavilion, honoring the recent mayor of Los Angeles. Inside are upscale dining and retail enclaves, as well as indoor and outdoor VIP lounges.

LAX is also improving and enlarging boarding gates and aircraft entry bridges. Many domestic and foreign aircraft arriving at the airport today are larger models that offer more extensive, two-level seating. The new facilities will allow quicker passenger departing and arriving opportunities.

We frequent flyers appreciate the ongoing improvements at LAX, and look forward to enjoying them on future travels.

Vegas Reflects: Sr. Sunbather Fried At Hotel Pool

Remember when you were a kid, and a bunch of pals with a magnifying glass? You took it into the sunlight and started a fire with some dry grass. Well, that’s the same thing that happened at a posh, high-rise Las Vegas hotel.

A senior guest claims he was burned while sunning himself, because the huge glass facade of one of the hotel’s buildings acted as a magnifier, and increased the intensity to red hot. Reminds old admirers of the Johnny Cash lyrics: “And it burns, burns, burns, the ring of fire.”

Zunum Aero: Fly Electric On Short, Cheap Hops

The company, located in Kirkland, Washington, is developing electric planes to get travelers out of cars and into the air for regional travel. They’re expected to be able to fly up to 400 miles on each electric charge.

Along with partners Boeing and JetBlue, Zunum predicts that hybrid passenger aircraft will be operating within the next decade. Because the engines don’t use expensive gasoline, Zunum expects ticket prices will be much lower than on today’s huge, high-cost, gas-guzzly airliners.

Consider Airbnb For Your Next Group Trip

We at travel4seniors.com always enjoy the convenience of staying at a hotel. In our corporate career, we experienced great ones in New York, Hawaii, Florida, California, the Caribbean, Canada and many other world destinations. During career years, we were responsible for booking hotel facilities for groups of several hundred people at company conferences.

In early retirement years, we followed the same practice for private travel. Of course, we’re also very aware that in the past several decades, hotel prices have doubled and tripled in cost. With limited retirement income, what can we do about it?

American Lung Assn Names Most Polluted USA Cities

ALA reports six to the top 10 in the USA are in California. We have to assume their expert beancounters took little bottles to each of the cities, captured some air and then came home to test it the lab.

And their results are as clear as the (cough, cough) air over such pristine, but unmentioned, cities as New York, Philly, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Boston and Cleveland. So, next time you take your senior lungs to one of the above unnamed cities, breathe deeply the pure, unsmoggy air.

The ALA list for this year, with the awful atmospheres are, in rank (smell) order: Bakersfield CA, Visalia CA, Fresno CA, Modesto CA, Fairbanks AK, San Francisco CA, Salt Lake City UT, Logan UT, Los Angeles CA and Reno NV.

Sr Flyers: How To Breeze Through Airport Security

If done right, at least you may avoid some of the usual snail’s pace process. Here are some suggestions for easing your way through security:

1. Wear easy-off shoes or sandals. Nothing so awkward in the security line is when you’re juggling tickets, purses, computers, tickets and other stuff. Then need to stoop over to pry off footwear. Make it a bit less inconvenient if you can get barefoot in a hurry.