This is for anyone who hasn't heard the news by now or comes here first for airport information. City officials said yesterday that they would establish a new cell-phone lot on airport property by the first of the year. This is the same plan we reported in the Winging It colunn a week ago Monday was in the works. Deputy Mayor Rina Cutler made the announcement and all the details are  in today's story by airport beat writer Linda Loyd, found here.

My apologies for the late posting. I'm out of town on family business this week with limited Internet access. But I guess I'm not all that late, since the Mayor's Office of Transportation and Utilities had not issued this news release on the lot until a few minues ago, at roughly the same time I was posting the Inquirer story above. Here's the news release from the city. 

One of the AP's airline writers has an well-researched story today about how much airlines have cut their capacity -- the number of available seats -- for travel this fall as they struggle to make money in a deep recession. How much more can the industry cut, and what will they do next? Find some expert opinion in the story here. 

Today's Winging It column reports on what readers have to say about the airport's cell-phone lot, how hard (or not) it is to find and whether it's really "dangerous" to park on I-95 ramps rather than going to the lot. Read it all here.

As I mentioned in the column, I said I would report to you if the State Police or Philadelphia Police had any recent statistics on accidents on the ramps to PHL from I-95. A State Police spokeswoman said they did not have any data. The Philadelphia Police public affairs unit hasn't responded to my e-mailed request. As I said, if I can find them I will post them. 

Philaelphia airport's managers, as they have do every year on this day, will have a 15-minute ceremony today to honor the victims of the Sept 11, 2001 attacks, one of many such remembrances around the country. The ceremony will take place at 1 p.m. at the flagpole in front of the police headquarters in Terminal C, departures road.

Also, here is a news story that was continuously updated this morning with news of what happened at Ground Zero.

The U.S. Senate has approved by a healthy margin a bill that would set up a nonprofit corporation to promote the country to foreign visitors, and get the visitors to help pay for the effort. Passage of the legislation has been strongly endorsed by the travel industry, which says the country needs to do more overseas marketing to improve its image with non-citizens who think -- with good reason -- that they've not been welcome here since Sept. 11, 2001. It's fitting that this bill passed on Sept. 9. Read more details of what the bill will do here.

An Aero Mexico jet from Cancun to Mexico City was hijacked today but the incident ended peacefully, with all passengers and crew safe after police took control of the plane. Read details in an AP story here.