The expansion of Ontario Airport has been another project they have been talking about since at least 1981.
Nothing happens because the corrupt Dims keep taking our money for their own pockets & partying.
Instead we get broken roads & broken pipes and “brilliant” ideas like the Road Diet.
Part of the problem with Ontario International Airport is (1) it was for a long time controlled by an operating authority that was also in charge of LAX (and that authority did not have any local interest in expanding Ontario much) and (2) the FAA has not been a great help in approvals for more flights to/from Ontario either.
Then after the 2008 financial crisis hit, the Inland Empire economy was hit severely and two airlines shifted flights from Ontario to LAX - Southwest and Jet Blue (what deals did the controlling authority give those airlines that it would not give them to keep any flights at Ontario. Passenger miles at Ontario peaked in 2007 and are not back to those levels now.
From 2010 to 2016 the City of Ontario sued to rest control of the airport from the operators of LAX. The county of San Bernardino joined them, and after a six year legal battle together, they control the operating authority for Ontario International.
I would commision a private study with some industry experts to investigation the option of privatizing the airport together with the challenges and financial prospects of success.
Ontario has assets - runways. Ontario’s runways are long and one is longer than three of the four runways at LAX.
There should be more air freight lines with flights in and out of Ontario, but that which wants to land more inland than LAX was grabbed by San Bernardino with the facilities abandoned by Norton Air Force base, and all the many government incentives that went along with that. Yet, the entire Inland Empire has spouted warehousing and distribution centers like weeds, and that includes around Ontario as well. More air freight traffic would help stabilize the revenues at Ontario.