Ontario Airport traffic dropped in May - Press-Enterprise
Ontario International Airport’s passenger traffic dropped 5.7 percent in May compared to the same month a year ago, according to statistics from Los Angeles World Airports. The airport had 373,975 passengers in May.
Los Angeles International Airport had 5.41 million passengers in May, 1.17 percent fewer travelers than the year before.
Bob Hope Airport in Burbank, which lost American Airlines in February, had a total of 344,566 passengers use the airport in May, a 4.4 percent drop.
Other Southern California airports saw a jump in traffic in May. John Wayne Airport in Orange County had 1 percent more passengers in May, a total of 742,204 travelers. Long Beach Airport had 292,618 passengers, 12 percent more than a year ago. Palm Springs International Airport had 129,098 passengers in May, a 19.2 percent increase compared to a year ago.
JWA sees pickup in May travel
Airline passenger traffic at John Wayne Airport increased in May 2012 as compared to May 2011. In May 2012, the Airport served 742,204 passengers, an increase of 1% when compared to the May 2011 passenger traffic count of 734,671.
For the calendar year to date, total traffic is down by 0.1%
Bob Hope looks to grow by 1.8 percent
Projected annual growth of airline traffic at Burbank Bob Hope Airport is expected to be 1.8 percent, as forecast by the airport planning firm Coffman Associates. This forecast is part of the work product that Burbank Bob Hope Airport is preparing for its Part 150 Study Update.
June 18 - June 24, 2012
LA's choking out Ontario airport - Riverside Press Enterprise
By now, everyone realizes Ontario International Airport plays second fiddle to LAX in the eyes of its owner, Los Angeles city.
If it weren't already clear, Monday, June 18's action by the LA Board of Airport Commissioners spelled it out in black and white:
Los Angeles World Airports will spend $4.6 million on advertising and public relations for LAX in the next year; for ONT, $142,000.
That's less than it will spend on advertising and public relations for Van Nuys Airport, which has no commercial flights. Van Nuys will get $186,000.
Huh?
The LA airport authority used to spend upwards of $2 million a year marketing ONT, and passenger volumes grew steadily. But since 2007, the advertising and PR budget for ONT has been all but wiped out.
June 4 - June 10, 2012
Ontario develops regional compatibility plan for ONT - Ontario Daily Bulletin
L.A./Ontario International Airport is not only an economic asset to the region, but its future growth can have adverse impacts - such as increased noise and safety - for the communities in its vicinity.
Historically, a governing body from San Bernardino County has overseen a process that ensures future developments are compatible with the airport's operations.
Wanting to make the process more local, Ontario took the reins from the county and formed the Ontario International Airport-Inter-Agency Collaborative in 2008.
The six cities affected by operations at ONT and are included in the collaborative are Ontario, Chino, Montclair, Upland, Rancho Cucamonga and Fontana, as well as San Bernardino and Riverside counties.
City officials are now in the midst of entering into agreements with those neighboring cities on the L.A./Ontario International Airport Land Use Compatibility Plan.
John Wayne Airport gains international status with new flights - LA Times
It began as the most modest of airports – passengers trudged across the tarmac to climb aboard departing jets, a double-wide served as a terminal and on weekends, drag races were held in the parking lots.
And even as John Wayne Airport grew into a larger regional transit hub, with scores of flights each day, it was stunted in becoming something bigger because of its short runways and a cap on how many passengers could pass through the terminal gates.
But the addition of two new flights to Mexico that began this week — in addition to flights to Canada that began recently —have given international status to Orange County’s only commercial airport.
Jenny Wedge, an airport spokeswoman, said the international flights will possibly draw in more fliers to the airport, which has seen its passenger traffic fall off from a peak of 9.9 million in 2007. Last year, the airport had 8.6 million passengers.
She said the flights will attract two crowds: Cabo will pull in the tourists and the party-minded, while Mexico City will appeal to Orange County’s Latino community. And so far, flights have been full.
Bob Hope Airport may be recovering from loss of American Airlines - Burbank Leader
The rate at which parking revenues and the number of passengers fell at Burbank Bob Hope Airport eased up in April, an indication that the airfield may be rebounding from the loss of American Airlines earlier this year, officials reported this week.
The number of passengers dropped by about 4.7% in April, to 338,821 from 355,686 passengers during the same period last year, according to a report released Monday to the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority.
The April passenger rates are better than March, when the airfield reported a 6% year-to-year drop.
Considering American Airlines, which handled 7.5% of Bob Hope’s the airport’s total passengers, pulled out in February, the numbers are better than expected, said Dan Feger, the airport’s executive director.
At other airports in the region, passenger counts were mixed in April. Ontario Airport saw a 7.9% plunge, while John Wayne Airport reported an increase of 0.7%. The number of passengers at Los Angeles International Airport climbed by 2.6%.
May 27 - June 3, 2012
Bullet train faces new legal challenges - LA Times
Central Valley farmers and Madera County file an environmental lawsuit, and O.C. transit officials urge the state to suspend the project.
Central Valley farm groups filed a major environmental lawsuit Friday against the California bullet train project, while Orange County transportation leaders urged state officials to shelve the $68-billion proposal until improvements can be made to the existing passenger rail system.
The Orange County Transportation Authority board questioned the project's claims of profitability, its ambitious construction schedule and what officials characterized as a speculative finance plan that may never secure enough money to build even the first sections the 520-mile network.
Board members wrote that the state would be better off improving conventional passenger service and filling holes in current rail corridors before more work is done on the 200-mph system between San Francisco and Los Angeles, with an eventual spur to Anaheim.
Website Editor: This website supported the high speed rail project back when regional planning authorities projected that we would run out of existing airport capacity and would be forced to utilize inconveniently situated runways in Palmdale and the Inland Empire. The world has changed in recent years and local airports are operating well below their physical capacity.
Meanwhile, projected costs for the rail project have climbed and obstacles have multiplied. Projects like the high speed rail line should be reevaluated in light of changing needs. The rail line, as presented, and in this time of tight finances and airport underutilization, does not appear to be economically justified.
A good time to be JWA - OC Register Travel
Officials aren't ready to rename it John Wayne International Airport just yet, but Sunday the once-tiny local airport sandwiched between Los Angeles and San Diego will serve the three biggest countries in North America. AirTran Flight 26 is scheduled to arrive June 3 from Mexico City at 4:12 p.m. If all goes as planned, its passengers will disembark their Boeing 737 into a secured gate that will lead them to the lower level of Terminal C. There they will become the first people to pass through the airport's new Immigration and Customs Enforcement area. Later, a flight will arrive from Cabo San Lucas. Earlier in the day, AirTran jets will have departed John Wayne Airport for Cabo and Mexico City.
Meanwhile, WestJet will have arrivals and departures to Vancouver and Calgary. Under an innovative agreement between Canada and the U.S., passengers coming to Orange County go through U.S. customs in Canada and get off the jets just as though they were arriving from Portland or Phoenix.
Like a lot of airports around the country, the economy has provided plenty of turbulence at JWA since 2007. There are spots at the ticketing counter left vacant by airlines that dropped Orange County routes or left altogether. During boom times, the airport had a waiting list of five to six airlines interested in starting service. Today the number is zero.
The overall reality remains that John Wayne Airport is easily the most pleasant airport experience in Southern California. LAX is an antiquated monster with nightmare traffic. Ontario has become the airport equivalent of a ghost town, with few destination options. Long Beach's once-cute art deco terminal is now bursting at the seams, and its future is dangerously tied to the fate of one airline, JetBlue.
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JWA posts April passenger stats; almost flat for year
John Wayne Airport
Monthly Airport
Statistics
- April 2012
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|
April |
April |
% Change |
YTD |
YTD |
% Change |
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|
Total passengers |
727,523 |
722,815 |
0.7% |
2,696,977 |
2,706,436 |
-0.3% |
||
|
Enplaned passengers |
366,687 |
364,545 |
0.6% |
1,346,302 |
1,350,036 |
-0.3% |
||
|
Deplaned passengers |
360,836 |
358,270 |
0.7% |
1,350,675 |
1,356,400 |
-0.4% |
||
|
Air Cargo Tons* |
1,518 |
1,389 |
9.3% |
5,590 |
4,985 |
12.1% |
||
|
Total Aircraft Operations |
21,861 |
22,352 |
-2.2% |
84,324 |
84,833 |
-0.6% |
||
|
General Aviation Operations |
15,025 |
15,419 |
-2.6% |
57,412 |
57,371 |
0.1% |
||
|
Commercial Aircraft Operations |
6,584 |
6,639 |
-0.8% |
25,908 |
26,189 |
-1.1% |
||
|
Commuter Aircraft Operations |
219 |
287 |
-23.7% |
855 |
1,240 |
-31.0% |
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|
Military Operations |
33 |
7 |
371.4% |
149 |
33 |
351.5% |
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Obstacles Could Delay Airport SNA’s Passenger Growth - John Wayne Airport.org
The latest improvements at Orange County Airport SNA are not making a major impact on passenger traffic to the Orange County hub. Statistic from April 2012 show 4700 more passengers departed and arrived at John Wayne Airport than in April 2011. This was a .7 percent increase than the previous year. Yet 55 fewer commercial carriers landed at the airport than the previous year.
Nonetheless, Airport SNA’s growth could be delayed by several factors. Orange County Airport’s 2010 – 2011 construction project transpired at a time when several major airlines were consolidating or trying to fend off bankruptcy.
Direct flights to Vancouver and Calgary helped John Wayne Airport maintain its international status, When Southwest Airlines acquired AirTran, Airport SNA landed two additional flights to its international flight schedule: Cabo San Lucas and Mexico City, while some domestic flights were cut.
Fuel costs. Across the nation, major carriers continue to streamline flight schedules to offset skyrocketing fuel prices. These consolidated flights could reduce the number of departure and arrivals at any airport.
No evening flights. Another factor which may prevent Orange County Airport from fattening its flight schedule is that the commercial carriers have to abide by a daytime arrival and departure limitation to appease local residents, who have been vocal about Airport SNA noise.
For several years, many Orange County residents have been in contention over Airport SNA’s noise. The ongoing debate could hinder Orange County Airport from providing evening flights and potentially its growth.
