Airports New Zealand

A New Zealand teenager, who apparently breached several levels of airport security, stowed away on a United Airlines flight and was apprehended after landing Friday morning at Los Angeles International Airport, authorities said. Kinnear Penman, 16, boarded Flight 842 without a ticket at Auckland and hid in the passenger cabin, New Zealand authorities said. The youth managed to get through at least four levels of security and check-ins, they added. Officers from the U.S.

Airborne volcanic ash can be devastating to airplane engines and in recent years commercial aviation firms have learned to give erupting mountains a wide berth. So authorities did not hesitate to close the Auckland, New Zealand, airport for two nights when ash clouds erupted from the Mt. Ruapehu volcano, a 9,000-foot peak on the country's North Island. There have been several sizable eruptions at Ruapehu since last September. There has been no loss of life, however.

Airborne volcanic ash can be devastating to airplane engines and in recent years commercial aviation firms have learned to give erupting mountains a wide berth. So authorities did not hesitate to close the Auckland, New Zealand, airport for two nights when ash clouds erupted from the Mt. Ruapehu volcano, a 9,000-foot peak on the country's North Island. There have been several sizable eruptions at Ruapehu since last September. There has been no loss of life, however.

A New Zealand teenager, who apparently breached several levels of airport security, stowed away on a United Airlines flight and was apprehended after landing Friday morning at Los Angeles International Airport, authorities said. Kinnear Penman, 16, boarded Flight 842 without a ticket at Auckland and hid in the passenger cabin, New Zealand authorities said. The youth managed to get through at least four levels of security and check-ins, they added. Officers from the U.S.

On March 22-23, Bust It Records artist M. C. Hammer will perform "Here Comes the Hammer" at a Tokyo stadium called the Big Egg Dome. That's a Deep-Dish With Everything, Extra Lamb and Yogurt Rep. Susan Molinari of Staten Island reports the top request she heard from American troops at the Kuwait front (before the fighting began, anyway) was for American-style pizza. "Let us do what we have to do," they told her, "and get us pizza."

The Youth Hostel Assn. facilities in New Zealand are the best in the world, according to a YHA survey conducted last year of 9,000 travelers from 10 countries. The 59 YHA New Zealand hostels offer members of affiliated hosteling associations beds for $6.30 to $13.30 per night. Nonmembers are welcome but are charged an additional $2.80 per night. The hostels provide shared accommodations with some twin, double and family rooms available at most locations.

Australia's domestic airline pilots resigned en masse Thursday after airlines started firing them individually over a pay dispute that has shut down the nation's air services. Desperate travelers thwarted by a shutdown of domestic services were flying 1,200 miles to New Zealand and back just to hop from one Australian city to another. The Australian Federation of Air Pilots delivered the 1,600 resignations to airlines after the companies started taking legal action against individual pilots.

The recession has forced businesses to rethink how they operate and what products and services they offer. Orange County must do the same. The recessionary 1990s means thinking about a return to core county services which cannot effectively be supplied by other levels of government or private industry. In making that evaluation, the county should look at all the assets that it holds and ask two questions: Can those assets deliver a higher value of services under private management?