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Member
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Do you have news you'd like to share with your fellow LABTA members? A new job? A promotion? An award or recognition? Please send your news and photo to Jeff Sewalson at
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The following new members joined LABTA
in October.
Welcome!
Direct Member
Andrea Dunlap
Manager, Travel
Roll International Corporation
Mariles Krok
Senior Account Executive
Marriott International - Los Angeles Market Sales
Manager, Business Development
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 News from LAWA
INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT BREAKS GROUND ON NEW AIRCRAFT RESCUE FIREFIGHTING FACILITY
Federal Stimulus-Funded Modernization Project Will Increase Capacity and improve Emergency Preparedness
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa was joined on November 12 by representatives of local and federal elected officials, executives from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), and City fire and airport departments in breaking ground for a new replacement Aircraft Rescue and Firefighting (ARFF) facility at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). The $13.5 million Los Angeles Fire Department Station 80 project received $10.8 million in federal stimulus funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Read more... |
Dec. 10:
LABTA Annual Holiday Gala 
The Los Angeles Business Travel Association's Annual Holiday Gala will take place on Thursday, Dec. 10 at 6 p.m. at Casa del Mar in Santa Monica.
Enjoy the evening with a silent auction, dinner entertainment, short program and an exciting live auction. Many opportunities are available for fabulous travel-related prizes and fine gift items to be awarded to the Gala's attendees.
Continuing LABTA's emphasis on giving back to our community, a portion of the proceeds will be donated to a local charity. The Los Angeles Regional Food Bank has been chosen as this year's charity partner. Our Association has partnered with them this year with a canned food drive (November) and a volunteer outing where our members went to their warehouse to help package food for families.
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Legislative Update:
How Can LABTA Help Make Congress More Pro-NBTA?
Whether or not we are politically "active", there is no better way than the NBTA PAC to support the candidates and the issues that impact our company's travel needs and business. Our contributions, combined with the donations from fellow LABTA members and NBTA colleagues from across the U.S., will help ensure that NBTA has the power to back those members of Congress who show leadership and commitment to the business travel community's issues. So let your voice be heard!
If all 258 members of LABTA donate $10 to the NBTA PAC, we'll exceed the chapter challenge and be sure to donate more than any other chapter! NBTA members can donate on a secure web site - click here to donate now.
LABTA members who are not members of the National Chapter can make out a check (personal funds only) and give it to Frank Dolce, LABTA Director for Legislative Affairs, at next week's meeting or any other meeting. You can also mail a check to the NBTA Chapter Challenge C/O LABTA 210 N. Glenoaks, Suite C, Burbank, CA 91040.
Each of the links below represent an important issue - click to send a message to your elected representatives. It only takes a minute and its FREE!
Educate your elected officials
NextGen needs to be implemented
Click here for the most recent NBTA Government Relations report.
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NBTA's Chapter Challenge in On!
NBTA's 4th Annual Chapter Challenge, which runs from convention to convention (Sept. 2009 to July 2010), calls on all 42 chapters to engage their elected officials. Chapters that meet these five tasks will be recognized as NBTA 2010 CHAPTER CHALLENGE PARTNERS:
· 50% of membership sends a communication to one of their elected officials · Invite an elected official to speak at a chapter meeting or host an NBTA Government Relations focused meeting · Chapter sends a letter to their Representative or Senator endorsing an NBTA endorsed bill or vote · Chapter appoints a person to be the Government Relations liaison - completed (Frank Dolce is Legislative Affair Director for LABTA and the Government Relations liaison) · Raise $1,000 in PAC contributions regardless of chapter size - if each LABTA member contributes $10 to the PAC (personal funds only), we'll be sure to beat all the other chapters! Click here to make an on-line donation.
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 And Finally...Did You Know?
Many know that the aircraft flown by Amelia Earhart on her fateful last flight was a Lockheed L-10 Electra, a marvel of art deco engineering, but did you know that the plane used in the recently released biopic of her life starring Hillary Swank, is a real plane? No special effects here folks.
The following is from NPR:
"For the sequences involving Earhart's final flight, [the] ... production crew tracked down one of just 10 remaining Lockheed Electras. The gleaming silver airplane - "a magnificent piece of both Art Deco design and aeronautics," [director] Nair enthuses - was built in 1936.
The filmmakers found it in the care of a Frenchman who had refurbished it lovingly and who flies it regularly. At some risk and with some trouble, Bernard Chabbert flew the plane from France to South Africa, where much of the movie was filmed.
"The remarkable thing about Bernard was that his father was a pilot himself and was stationed in Dakar, Senegal - and met Amelia Earhart when she landed there on her final flight," Nair says. "And when we asked Bernard for his Electra, he showed us this beautiful vintage picture of his father and Amelia eating dinner in Dakar - and we just felt that this was a sign that this was our real Electra, that Amelia was herself associated with it in a pretty intimate way."
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