Airlines looking to cut service at LAX

Anxious airline carriers reeling from financial pressures have posted travel schedules for November that reflect a 16.4 percent drop in flights at Los Angeles International Airport compared with a year earlier.Art Marroquin in the Daily News.

Rising fuel costs have prompted the airlines to use smaller jets, cut routes and increase ticket prices, leading to a reduction of more than 1,900 weekly takeoffs and landings at LAX by late fall, according to scheduling data released Friday by Atlanta-based Innovata, one of two airline industry databases.

As a result, 163,600 fewer seats will be available to airline passengers each week beginning in November, a 10.7 percent drop from the same period last year, according to Innovata's figures.