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LA/Ontario International Airport , formerly and still commonly known as Ontario International Airport, is a public airport two miles east of downtown Ontario, a city in San Bernardino County, California, US, and about 38 miles east of Downtown Los Angeles. It is currently owned and operated by the Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA), an agency of the city of Los Angeles. In 2015, LAWA tentatively agreed to turn over the airport to officials of the city of Ontario. In 2008, 6.2 million passengers used the airport, 13.5% less than 2007.〔(ONT passenger statistics for 2008 )〕 Passenger volume in April 2011 was down 4.6%, compared to the previous year.〔 In early 2011 Southwest Airlines carried 54% of the passengers. For a number of years, the airport operated alongside Ontario Air National Guard Station, which was closed as a result of the 1995 Base Realignment and Closure Commission. ==History== In 1923 a landing field was established east of Central Avenue ( west of the current airport) on land leased from the Union Pacific Railroad. The airfield was named Latimer Field after an orange-packing company next to the airstrip. An airport was built there by one of the first flying clubs in southern California, the Friends of Ontario Airport. In 1929, the city of Ontario purchased , now in the southwest corner of the airport, for $12,000, and established the Ontario Municipal Airport. In 1941 the city bought around the airport and approved construction of new runways, which were completed by 1942, with funds from the Works Progress Administration. The east/west runway and the northeast/southwest runway cost $350,000.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.militarymuseum.org/OntarioANGS.html )〕 On February 27, 1942, an Army Air Corps plane made the first landing at the new airport. By 1943, the airport was an Army Air Corps P-38 training base and P-51 operating base. In 1946 Ontario Municipal Airport was renamed "Ontario International Airport" because of the transpacific cargo flights originating there. In 1949 Western Airlines began scheduled flights; in 1955 Bonanza Air Lines flights started. Western and Bonanza nonstops did not reach beyond Las Vegas. In 1962 Western began nonstop flights to San Francisco (one Electra daily). In 1967 Bonanza began nonstop F27 flights to Phoenix. Ontario and Los Angeles entered into a joint powers agreement, making Ontario International Airport part of the Los Angeles regional airports system. In 1968 the airport saw its first scheduled jet flights. In 1969 Continental Airlines started 720B nonstops to Denver and Chicago; Air California started 737 flights to San Jose; Pacific Southwest Airlines started San Francisco flights; and Western began 737 nonstops to Sacramento and Salt Lake City. In 1970 United Airlines started a nonstop to Chicago and American started flights to Dallas (and Chicago, for a short time). In October 1974, Ontario hosted the Concorde supersonic airliner during a promotional round-the-world flight. In 1981 a second east-west runway, 26L/8R, was built, necessitating the removal of the old NE-SW runway 4/22. Remnants of the 4/22 runway are visible in the present-day taxiways. With the completion of the new runway, the existing runway 25/7 became 26R/8L. In 1985, the city of Los Angeles acquired Ontario International Airport outright from the city of Ontario. In 1987, Runway 26R/8L was extended to the east to bring the two runway thresholds side by side, so aircraft would be higher over neighborhoods. 26R/8L became the main departing runway and 26L/8R the main arrival runway. In 1998, a new terminal designed by DMJM Aviation opened.〔(Architectural Glass Design )〕 In 2005–2006: Runway 26R/8L was repaved, strengthened, and received storm drains and better runway lighting, including centerline lights, were added. Taxiways D, S, R, U, and W were widened, and better taxiways and runway outlines were added. Aeroméxico started seasonal flights to Guadalajara and Mexico City, the only international flights from/to Ontario. In 2006, Ontario International Airport became LA/Ontario International Airport. The "LA" portion was added to remind fliers of Los Angeles and to avoid confusion with the province of Ontario in Canada.〔(Passenger growth at Ontario airport stagnant | Business | PE.com | Southern California News | News for Inland Southern California )〕 In 2007, Southwest Airlines carried 49.38% of the airport's passengers. Also in the top five were United Airlines/United Express (8.64%); Delta Air Lines (7.93%); US Airways (7.08%); and American Airlines (6.18%). Ownership and control of the airport became an issue in late 2010 when the city of Ontario, supported by the Southern California Association of Governments, criticized and questioned LAWA's operation of the airport.〔(Locals Want to Run Ontario Airport, KNBC-TV )〕〔(Ontario: L.A. should relinquish control of Ontario Airport, Daily Breeze )〕〔(Regional support for Inland control of Ontario airport, The BizPress )〕 In 2013, LAWA offered to return the airport to local control for a purchase price of $474mm, which was rejected.〔(Ontario rejects $474 million offer for airport, Daily Bulletin )〕 Local groups then sued the city of Los Angeles, a suit that was temporarily suspended when both sides agreed to attempt to work together.〔(Feinstein says LA should work with Ontario, Daily Breeze )〕 In 2015, Los Angeles World Airports tentatively agreed to turn over ownership of Ontario Airport to the city of Ontario, according to the ''Los Angeles Times''.〔 LAWA is "to be reimbursed for its investments in the facility, job protection for the facility's 182 employees and the settlement of a lawsuit in which Ontario sought to regain control of the airport. ... Once ownership is transferred, the airport will be operated by the Ontario International Airport Authority, formed under a joint-powers agreement between the city of Ontario and San Bernardino County." The transfer may not occur for over a year from 2015, as formal approval is still needed from the Federal Aviation Administration and other units of government. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ontario International Airport」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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