Aerospace

LAX drops to #6 *

Los Angeles International now ranks as the world's sixth busiest airport, just behind Paris' Charles de Gaulle. Of course, on any ranking of airport amenities, transportation, signage or comfort of passengers, LAX would be far, far lower.

* Villaraigosa tweets: Well technically he retweets press secretary's post: "wrking hard to improve LAX. New int'l terminal will be great 1st impression. See how far we've come: http://bit.ly/1hFtC."


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