FAA chief backs LAX plans

The outgoing head of the Federal Aviation Administration urged business leaders Thursday to "get going" and express their opinions about modernizing Los Angeles International Airport, but some saw her comments as a thinly veiled effort to support expansion. Art Marroquin in the Daily News.

While using such phrasing as "I'm not going to tell you what to do," FAA Administrator Marion Blakey gave some audience members the impression that she supports a plan to move one of the airport's northern runways toward Westchester.

"Fix the airfield now," Blakey said during a luncheon hosted by the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce.