JWA continues to serve more passengers, approaching MAP cap
In September 2015, the John Wayne
Airport served 844,385 passengers, an increase of 11.0% when compared
with the September 2014 passenger traffic count of 760,536.
For the nine months, year-to-date, the number of passengers served
increase over 2014 by 7.1%
At the present rate, the airport could have its best year since 2007
when it served 9,979,699 passengers. It might top the 10.0
million mark.
Under an agreement signed between the County of Orange and Newport
Beach, the airport is not allowed to serve more than 10.8 million
passengers.
Previously, when service approached the MAP (Million of Annual
Passengers) Cap limit, airlines were forced to restrict the number of
seats that they filled.
October 19 - October 25,
2015
Deal prepares the way for new terminal at Bob Hope Airport in Burbank -
Daily News
After decades of wrangling, Burbank and the operator of Bob Hope
Airport have hammered out terms that agree for replacement of its
historic airport terminal, paving the way for an environmental study
and citywide vote next year. City officials will vote Tuesday on a
so-called terminal conception sheet that allows the
Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority to launch into an
environmental impact study.
It paves the way for a 14-gate replacement terminal, and a provision
that guarantees Burbank a supermajority vote.
The so-called conceptual term sheet released by Burbank on Thursday
follows a long-standing disagreement between the city and airport
authority over how best to govern the San Fernando Valley airport. A
standoff early this year lasted five months, after a battle over a
mandatory airport curfew that lasted decades.
Airport officials have long wanted to replace the historic passenger
terminal — a curvilinear former Mission-style building now topped by an
aircraft control tower — they say is functionally obsolete, seismically
unfit and too close to the existing runway.
They hope to build a new 355,000-square-foot terminal and two parking
garages, with the same 14 aircraft gates, for a projected cost of
between $300 million and $400 million. Passengers would still board and
exit aircraft via runway ramps and ladders.
LAX director appointed chief of John Wayne Airport -
OC Register
The director of operations for Los Angeles International Airport will
be the new director of John Wayne Airport.
Barry Rondinella was selected Tuesday by the Orange County Board of
Supervisors to lead the airport, replacing Alan Murphy, who retired in
February. Larry Serafini had been serving as interim director; he’ll
return to his previous role as deputy director of facilities.
Rondinella starts Nov. 13 and will be paid $200,000 annually.
His contract is for one year, which county spokeswoman Jean Pasco said
“aligns with the annual review process for employees.” County
executives will determine whether his contract should be renewed and
for how long, she said.
Rondinella, 54, is a licensed commercial pilot and a veteran of the
U.S. Air Force.
He’s been Los Angeles World Airport’s director of operations since 2010
and previously was deputy director of operations at Sacramento’s
airport and airport director for Stockton Metropolitan Airport and the
Santa Maria Public Airport.
The airport is set to undergo a litany of safety and aesthetic
improvements under a $102 million contract expected to be presented to
supervisors later this year. The work will include earthquake
retrofitting, upgraded smoke detectors and fire safety equipment, as
well as new carpet, rehabbed restaurants, and better lighting, heating
and cooling systems.
New international and domestic flights also are bringing more people to
the airport. Monthly traffic numbers increased 12 percent in August,
the second biggest uptick since 2007.
And the increases don’t look to be slowing down anytime soon. Southwest
Airlines plans to add nonstop routes to Kansas City, Mo., and St. Louis
on Nov. 22, and Alaska Airlines this month added flights to Puerto
Vallarta and Los Cabos, Mexico.
October 5 - October 11, 2015
Costa Mesa helipad proposal hovers over Newport -
Daily Pilot
Businessman Kevin Coleman had gotten approval from the Costa Mesa
Planning Commission for a proposed 40-by-40-foot helipad on his
property at 3132 Airway Ave., intended to be solely used by Leading
Edge Aviation Services.
Could Coleman's project change the footprint of John Wayne Airport?
Back in 2011, when Legacy Aviation planned to buy land on Airway Avenue
to accommodate its luxury aviation hangar business and then lease it
back to the county. The footprint argument arose then, and the project
wasn't approved.
Newport Beach City Hall recently re-sent its objection letter from that
time frame to the city of Costa Mesa. That letter not only objected to
the Legacy Aviation project, but also to the helipad proposal by
Leading Edge.
City Manager Dave Kiff says the city's 2011 position "generally remains
in place," though he has not asked the current council to reconsider it
as of yet.
"Our chief concern was/is whether the JWA footprint is expanded," he
says. "Not overflights. It doesn't matter to us where the helicopter
flights go."
Kiff went on to explain expansion of the footprint is a concern because
it could allow more planes to remain overnight, or lead to further
projects like this one, which, ultimately could add a long strip of
land near Airway Drive to the airport. The fear there is opening the
door to another runway.
"AirFair continues to see this as an expansion of the airport
footprint," adds Melinda Seely, president of the AirFair group opposed
to expansion.
September 28 - October 4, 2015
Ontario Airport passenger count
rises, thanks to international flights- Press
Enterprise
Passenger traffic at Ontario International Airport rose
2.26 percent in August over the previous year, driven by flights to
Mexico that weren’t being offered in 2014. Domestic passengers dropped
for the third month in a row.
The Inland airport saw 17,549 passengers for flights to Guadalajara and
Mexico City offered by AeroMexico and Volaris in August, compared to
8,731 for the same month in 2014, an increase of 101 percent.
AeroMexico began offering direct flights to Mexico City from ONT in
April in addition to its flights to Guadalajara. Volaris has added more
flight service to Guadalajara during the summer months.
Domestic passengers were at 351,082 in August, down .19 percent from
year-ago figures of 351,750 . It was the third drop in domestic
passengers in the year-over-year count since May.
Ontario and Los Angeles officials are supposed to reach a final
agreement later this month to put Los Angeles on the path to returning
Ontario International Airport to Inland control by October 2016.
A tentative agreement reached by the two cities in August will deed the
airport back to Ontario, which ceded control of it to Los Angeles in
1967, and ownership in 1985.
The $190 million agreement includes a 10-year schedule of $150 million
in payments to Los Angeles from the Ontario International Airport
Authority for improvements Los Angeles made during its stewardship.
Ontario also has agreed to leave another $40 million behind when it
leaves Los Angeles World Airports, the body that oversaw ONT.
Ontario had sued Los Angeles to regain the airport in 2013, claiming it
suffered billions of dollars in economic damage after the Inland
airport began losing flights, and millions of passengers, after 2007.
Ontario claimed Los Angeles had breached its contract to promote ONT as
a regional “feeder” airport for Los Angeles International Airport, also
controlled by LAWA.
The two sides announced the tentative settlement days before trial was
to begin.
Passengers at LAX in August
were 7.1 million, up 5.8 percent over the previous year.
John Wayne Airport posts August results
Airline passenger traffic at John
Wayne Airport increased in August 2015 when compared to August 2014. In
August 2015, the Airport served 936,949 passengers, an increase of
12.2% when compared with the August 2014 passenger traffic count of
834,765. Year-to-date passenger traffic was up by 6.7%
Commercial aircraft operations increased 8.0%, while commuter aircraft
operations stayed the same when compared to August 2014 levels.