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Travelers get out of cars and wait in lines at an airport near road construction.

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Long Beach Airport road work to pause amid record Thanksgiving travel surge

Airports across the country are gearing up for record holiday passenger volumes, with TSA expecting to break the busiest single day record on Dec. 1 with more than 3 million screenings.

A brown and white plane marked "UPS" taxis on a runway at sunset.

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UPS takes Long Beach Airport flight slot given up by Delta Air Lines

Since May of last year, Delta has given up three of its seven daily flight slots.

A small, white airplane flies through a clear blue sky.

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City subsidies aren’t moving the needle on unleaded fuel use at Long Beach Airport

As a result, residents who live beneath the flight path argue they’ve been left vulnerable to lead-related illnesses.

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Long Beach Airport

Flight experience at LGB will change as Southwest Airlines says it's ending open seating

The airline is Long Beach Airport's largest tenant and operates 50 of the 58 daily flight slots out of the airport.

Illustration of a man with one arm around a woman and the other pointing to a propeller-driven biplane with fabric wings.

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Long Beach Airport releases commemorative posters celebrating 100 years of history

The series of four posters will be available for free at a public open house July 27 celebrating the re-opening of the historic terminal building.

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Long Beach airport, port largely unaffected by global tech outage

The outage was caused by a defective software update from cybersecurity company CrowdStrike.

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‘A big middle finger to us’: Residents unimpressed with FAA, LGB informational webinar

Federal and local officials, as well as industry experts, answered dozens of community questions related to general aviation operations.