"Planegeddon" Coming to Van Nuys Airport

Who could forget "Carmageddon," the freeway closure last year that gripped our attention for weeks.

Now a new term is being spawned, it's called "Planegeddon," this involves the shutting down of the main runway at Van Nuys Airport which could cost the San Fernando Valley up to $225 million in lost economic activity, according to the Los Angeles Daily News.

Fixing the crumbling main runway at Van Nuys Airport would take about nine weeks and that would cost local business more than $3 million per day says Curt Castagna, president of the Van Nuys Airport Association.

Everything from hotel rooms to charter jet service would suffer reduced business. The 8000-foot strip was last repaved in 1992, it is filled with cracks and needs repair says Castagna.