San Bernardino Airport gets first international commercial flights, to ...

Parents and children recount horror of San Bernardino school shooting

SAN BERNARDINO >> For the first time since it was decommissioned as a military airport more than 20 years ago, san bernardino international airport is selling tickets for international commercial flights.

Volaris, an ultra-low cost Mexican carrier, announced Monday that tickets are available for flights to and from Guadalajara, Mexico.

Starting June 29, the flights will be Mondays and Thursdays, starting at $99 including taxes one way, according to Volaris.

One set of flights will depart from Guadalajara at 3:41 p.m. and arrive in San Bernardino at 5 p.m.

A second set will depart from San Bernardino at 6:15 p.m. and arrive in Guadalajara at 11:25 p.m.

The announcement was one of two new routes Volaris announced Monday, along with twice-weekly flights between Oaxaca and Los Angeles.

The launch of these new routes strengthens our presence in the Greater Los Angeles Area and provides our customers with additional options for visiting relatives, business travel and leisure, said Holger Blankenstein, chief commercial officer of Volaris, in a news release. We strive to combine affordable fares with routes that previously featured no scheduled air service. These additions help us achieve our goal of increasing connectivity between Mexico and the U.S.

In 2014, Volaris announced that it would fly between Ontario International Airport and Guadalajara, putting it in competition with AeroMexicos flights to the same destination.

Those flights are still listed on the Volaris website as being available for $99.

While commercial flights have been an elusive goal, San Bernardino has seen substantial increases in other areas in recent years.

Airport officials say the number of aircraft operating daily doubled from 2013 to 2016 to 48,000 and so far this year is 20 percent above that.

Source: http://www.sbsun.com/business/20170410/san-bernardino-airport-gets-first-international-commercial-flights-to-mexico

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The incident happened around 10 am local time at the North Park Elementary school in San Bernardino.

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Two adults were shot and killed at a California elementary school Monday in what police believe to be a murder-suicide and two students were rushed to a hospital with unknown injuries.

The incident happened around 10 a.m. local time at the North Park Elementary school in San Bernardino.

"Two adults are deceased in a classroom, believed to be a murder suicide," San Bernardino Police Chief Jarrod Burguan posted on Twitter. "We believe the suspect is down and there"s no further threat."

Burguan added that two studentshave been transportedto a hospital. Their conditions are unknown.

One of the victims is believed to be a teacher and responders are on scene, Maria Garcia, communications officer at San Bernardino Unified School District, told Fox News.

The school is on lockdown along with two others: Hillside Elementary School and Cajon High School.

Garcia told the San Bernardino Sun that school officials believe the situation is contained.

All other students were safe and were being taken to Cajon High School, where parents or guardians could pick them up, she said. Students gathered on a field and a blacktop basketball court inside the fenced-in grounds of the campus near a line of school buses.

The school has about 600 students in kindergarten through sixth grades.

Marina Ramos told news station KABC-TV that she rushed to the school to try to pick up her grandson after she heard about the shooting. She said she spoke to him, and he told her he was safe but was upset.

"He was crying. He"s scared," she said. "It was a typical morning and then chaos broke out."

Federal law enforcement sources told Fox News that the San Bernardino Police Department is the lead agency responding to and investigating the shooting. The ATF"s Los Angeles division has also lent assets to San Bernardino police and the FBI has offered its assistance, the sources added.

The city of 216,000 was the site of the December 2015 terror attack that killed 14 people and wounded 22 others at a meeting of san bernardino county employees. Husband-and-wife shooters Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik were killed in a gunbattle with authorities later that day.

The city is known for its high rates of violent crime, especially homicides, and has struggled to emerge from bankruptcy.

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Source: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/04/10/at-least-3-reportedly-shot-at-san-bernardino-elementary-school.html

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