Regional airport board stalled

The LA Times reports when Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa scaled back an $11-billion plan for modernizing Los Angeles International Airport he promised neighborhoods near LAX that he would embrace a different aviation strategy: sending air traffic to other airports across the region.

But the Southern California Regional Airport Authority [SCRAA], created to do the job, is once again having trouble getting off the ground.

Orange County officials want a "pledge of non-interference" guaranteeing that the authority won't try to increase the number of flights out of John Wayne Airport. The county also wants a guarantee that the authority won't lobby the federal government to secure increases in air travel out of Orange County. More . . .

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[Pragmatic Joe]

If Orange County government doesn't want more flights to service OC residents and businesses why are they building a new terminal at John Wayne?

Maybe its time that supervisors consider the rest of us who have to fly to make a living and not just people who have houses in Newport Beach.