Travis Kalanick flies to Los Angeles amid CloudKitchens mediation

Travis Kalanick flew from San Francisco to Van Nuys on May 19, a short 56-minute hop back to Los Angeles after a two-day visit to the Bay Area. The trip follows his launch party for Atoms, his new robotics venture, held in San Francisco in late April, per SF Standard.

The move to Los Angeles comes as his ghost-kitchen company, CloudKitchens—now folded into Atoms—faces a pending mediation in Orange County over a tenant complaint about unsafe conditions, as reported in a 2024 lawsuit moved to mediation this month. Kalanick has also been restructuring his business, renaming City Storage Systems to Atoms and shifting focus to industrial robotics, while maintaining a presence in California despite officially relocating to Austin last December to avoid the state's proposed billionaire wealth tax.

Kalanick's personal jet, N10100, has shuttled between Austin, San Francisco, and Los Angeles frequently this month, reflecting his continued engagement with West Coast operations even as he champions Texas residency.