Ontario counts shrinking; city still wants control - Press-Enterprise
The city of Ontario has made an "attractive and generous" cash offer to buy Ontario International Airport from the city of Los Angeles, but four months later the city has yet to hear anything from the office of LA's mayor.
It's one of the latest efforts by the city of Ontario to regain control of the airport that has shrunk in size by a third since 2007.
Passenger traffic at Ontario airport had seemed to be leveling off. Between 2007 and 2009, 2.3 million fewer passengers used the airport, a 32 percent drop. Traffic dropped again in 2010 but it was less than 2 percent. This year, there was little change in the first three months compared to the same time last year.
But traffic has dropped each month since and in both June and July the number of travelers using Ontario airport dropped by nearly 10 percent compared to the same month a year prior.
Ontario City Councilman Alan Wapner wouldn't say how much his city had offered to buy the airport but indicated it was a large amount. Los Angeles World Airports, a city agency, owns and operates both Ontario airport and Los Angeles International Airport.
The city of Ontario and San Bernardino County officials have blamed LAWA's management for Ontario airport's woes.
Wapner, who has been leading the efforts to regain control of the airport, said the pattern of traffic losses at Ontario is bound to worsen.
Because airlines have cut back flights at the airport, Inland residents looking for travel are getting in the habit of going elsewhere, no longer checking to see if Ontario might be an option, he said.
"Eventually it's going to lead to Ontario closing," he said.
An Inland goal to have control of the airport by July 1 came and went, and a state bill proposed by Sen. Bob Dutton, R-Rancho Cucamonga, that would have created an Inland airport authority was pulled after Ontario city leaders were encouraged that negotiations with Los Angeles World Airports would occur.
Negotiations didn't happen, though, said Wapner. At its last city council meeting, the council discussed using litigation to get the airport, he said.
LAX up, ONT down in July
Passenger traffic at LAX was up by 6.65 percent in July over the same month in 2010. Year to date, the airport has handled 5.63 percent more passengers.
At LA/Ontario airport, July traffic was down 9.64 percent and minus 4.31 percent for the year to date.
August 22 - August 28, 2011
Results in for the first half of 2011 show regional air travel recovering
Statistics recently released for six month passenger volume in the Southern California Region show 40,773,889 passengers used the region's six commercial airports:- LAX, John Wayne, Ontario, Burbank, Long Beach and Palm Springs.
This represents an increase of 4.0 percent in volume when compared the the same January through June period in 2010.
It was the best first half year showing since 2008.
This year's volume is still 6.0 percent below the record of 43,358,522 passengers set in 2000.
August 15 - August 21, 2011
Long Beach posts results for May and June
Long Beach Airport administration posted results for May and June this week.
The number of passengers in May rose 0.8 percent from the same month last year. In June, the number was up by 2.8 percent.
For the first six months of the year to date, 1,449,527 passengers used the airport for a gain of 3.2 percent over the first half of 2010.
Long Beach Airport operates with noise control limits on the number of daily flights. At June month-end, Long Beach Airport had 41 allocated Air Carrier flight slots - JetBlue (31), US Airways (4), Allegiant (3), Delta (1), FedEx (1), UPS (1) and nine allocated Commuter Carrier flight slots - Delta (5), Horizon (4).
Sixteen Commuter Carrier flight slots remain available for allocation.
August 8 - August 14, 2011
End of summer brings cuts in O.C.-Hawaii
flights - OC
Register
Continental's seasonal service to Honolulu and Maui will move from
mostly daily to Saturday only after Sept. 6. Flights will increase
again during the Thanksgiving and Christmas holiday season. The airline
is in the last stages of a merger with United.
John Wayne Airport sees decrease in June
Airline
passenger traffic at John Wayne Airport decreased in June 2011 as
compared to
June 2010. In June 2011, the Airport served 749,815 passengers, a
decrease of
2.9% when compared to the June 2010 passenger traffic count of 772,155.
August 1- August 7, 2011
Contract for scaled back Bob Hope Airport transit center OK'd - Glendale News Press
Bob Hope Airport commissioners on Monday unanimously approved a $1.5-million contract with a design firm to draw up plans for a new scaled-back transit center.
The center, which will house rental car, bus, rail and taxi services, had to be revised in June when construction bids came in $47 million to $69 million higher than the projected $112-million price tag.
Houston-based Pierce, Goodwin, Alexander & Linville will draft the new plans for the center, which will be built near Hollywood Way and Empire Avenue.
After a reported “fear factor” among contractors that they wouldn’t be able to meet the project’s timeline — prompting some to either submit high bids or drop out altogether — the construction period was extended.
How safe is San Diego airport? - San Diego (CA) Union-Tribune
Anyone who's ever glanced skyward as a jetliner is making its final approach into Lindbergh Field would swear that it could easily scrape one of the high-rises in its path. As scary as the impending landing seems, San Diego International Airport is in fact the seventh safest airfield in the U.S., according to Travel + Leisure magazine.
With just four runway incidents between 2006 and 2010 (the same number as the top-ranked airport), Lindbergh Field was lauded for its runway status lights system that advises pilots and others on the ground when it is safe, to cross runways and taxiways. The airport was one of the first to have the system installed. It is also the only California airport to make the magazine's top rankings.
