If for some reason anyone thought that Los Angeles World Airports' hand-over of L.A./Ontario International Airport to local control might come quickly, the governing board's action and discussion Monday ought to disabuse them of that notion.

The Board of Airport Commissioners agreed to negotiate a letter of intent between LAWA and the Ontario International Airport Authority establishing terms that would result in LAWA selling ONT to the authority.

Don't get us wrong; we're quite pleased that the board took that step.

Los Angeles airport authorities have laid out their conditions for agreeing to sell Ontario International Airport.  L.A.’s Board of Airport Commissioners has given  its staff until April to try to negotiate a letter of intent with Ontario’s new airport authority. That would be the first step in a process that would lead to a sale.
 

For the first time this year, passenger traffic decline at LA/Ontario International Airport is nearly flat from the same period last year.

Figures released by Los Angeles World Airports shows traffic for the month of October was down by just 0.8 percent. A total of 366,161 passengers traveled in and out of the airport compared to the 369,051 passengers that used the airport in 2011.

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