Why not name it Southern California Airpot (SCA) or SoCal Airport.

I flew out of Terminal 7, “old part,” in late March 2024. When you stated that Terminal 7 renovations were completed years ago, I had to stop watching out of gear that you were right.

Seriously if here are 1 seat public transit from SGV to ONT through Rowland Heights/ Diamond Bar that will bring a ton of Asia flight traffic

Your population numbers are severely off. The Inland Empire population is the only one close to accurate. Orange County has over 3 million. You are showing LAX at having just over 2 million? Really?

Maybe name it Chaffey Airport?

Musk caught a harassment audit when he moved his HQ out of California, and you expect him to deal with harassment while trying to build a new yet to be contracted project?

Living in riverside, ONT is my go to airport,

Just came across the video and have to say this is brilliant: one thing i'd love to add to your CHSR/ Brightline routing would be to give Downtown San Bernardino station dual level bottom level a mix of CHSR + Brightline las Vegas that would use a Large highspeed rail X junction, North spur to a Cajon Pass base tunnel and onwards towards Brightline Las Vegas and maybe Salt lake city; with an additional tunnel to pull Amtrak long distance train into the downtown area. A southern spur connecting to San Diego, and a Eastern Spur onwards to Phoenix and beyond giving your LA Imperial Airport a connection to Imperial Valley and beyond. This would probably remove more Short haul flight options but would probably open up more expansion to long distance flights including giving it an even greater encampment area. overall great video :) I will have to look at more of your videos now :)

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All the metrolink options are going to be like 1 minute from my house. Lol wonder how the traffic is going to pick up. Theres a bunch of empty space along 8th they could stick a station.

Europe has been utilising PPPs since the 1980s. They are a Disaster. DO NOT DO PPPs! Cough up the funds by the Fed, State, county, city, etc... and stop the gravy train of Private Equity Funds (Hedge Funds) who will MILK the PPPs for every penny possible. PPP is why the UK has the Highest priced rail fares on Earth!

Your Future Prospectus of Burbank Airport is extremely Yank (USA) based - biased... IF it were to be an airport in Europe or Asia, when it has a HSR station or two or one that diverges to different destinations along with 5 to 10 different Light Rail/Tram railways... the destinations disappear (replaced by HSR) and with the Highly Valuable Parcel of Land with multiple connections aka a Spider Map of Railway lines that converge on the location... the airport would be CLOSED. It would be replaced with High Density Housing for two to three Plus Million Housing Units! :)

What was the decision?

When you called the old T3 a "shit" terminal, you have gained my undying respect! Plus this video is great.

Jab at John Wayne for no reason. POS F.

LA should of done this 40-50 years ago man were so behind

Fantastic work! Glad You Tube’s algorithm brought this video into my feed. Was this a video about an airport or mass transit? 😂 You said one very important word that will be key to a plan like this being implemented…”smart” Frankly, we don’t have smart leaders that think like you do and this won’t get done if we continue to elect incapable people. That being said…what about the name “Southern California Airport”? You said it yourself in the video…ONT could be Southern California’s premier airport. Being a long time IE resident and frequent flyer of ONT I didn’t like the brand LA/Ontario. I’d rather it be named after someone or some place than associate with LA. Just my thoughts.

Direct flight from ONT to Taiwan TPE is the best thing ever!!!!!

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Not a California resident, just visited several times As an outsider, Ontario Int'l Airport is pretty unlucky with naming. Ontario makes people think of Toronto, San Bernardino is used, "Los Angeles" is used by LAX. Perhaps calling it after some famous person is the best way to go

Sorry, at 14 mins I can’t listen anymore.

Your map is accurate, you don’t include the 210

We need to just ban all private cars from the current pickup/dropoff loop. It doesn't work any more. Make any dropoff when you first enter the airport property and just have shuttles and busses going to the terminals. Add a big security-side skybridge walkway going to a hub 'n spokes in the middle of the terminals so you can just travelator your way between terminals across the middle, going above the level the busses drive on. Dig out a DIA-style underground light rail shuttle for an easy path to "remote" terminals and you stop needing to worry about busses and stuff. So much of this work is just working around the fact that getting around and in and out of the airport is super hard. If you can just check in in terminal one and take the DIA style internal light rail shuttle to your flight, a lot of the problems they are trying to solve stop existing.

Never what I would have thought Ontario airport would behere

Ok, commenting as I watch this. No more name changes.

Shhhh! Don’t spill the beans!

The two stations on BL West to Vegas... seem out of place now but being the other side of the mountains, they will enable the construction of housing that is Affordable for those who work in the SoCAL Bowl. Expect to see two new urban conurbations... that are both Train Centred. This is the same for CAL HSR... Merced etc... one of the stations is away from old central business district. It is so they can build a New CBD centred on the station with buses, trams, etc. Think Long Term of 20 to 40 years as there is NO Where in the SoCAL Bowl to construct another 10 million plus housing units. Mountains are in the way.

Wow, what an incredible update, thank you! While I don't like traveling to the mainland anymore and haven't for 2 decades ... last month I had to fly in on Hawaiian Air arriving 1 am and was shocked that I had to walk up and down an ENDLESS maize of floors for 35 freaking minutes to get to ground transportation!!! So I found your video still wondering why is LAX such an insane airport??? I could not believe that there was not any way to connect to ground transport from International (that Hawaiian uses) directly out of that remote lost in space terminal ... I felt trapped and thought I must be lost in a surreal sci-fi movie like Lost! Anyways, so happy to see these plans ... because frankly I would rather fly into SAN and rent a car than ever fly into LAX again! Again, thank you!

LGB I feel will loose commercial travel first especially if high speed rail becomes more available

I am not a local but my feeling is Burbank would refocus to private travel if high speed rail becomes viable

I would not say never I believe that unless a new form of transportation gets traction LAX will grow London has half the run ways so capacity can grow… I wish they’d shift to 4 or 5 north to south con courses replacing all existing terminals and one massive ATL style drop off and baggage terminal Love your infrastructure mock ups

OCTA is still working on completing the light rail in Santa Ana. Id love to see that link to a Metro light rail and give way more frequency into LA outside of Metrolink or Amtrak service. If you look at the transit map of OC, its clearly divided by the 55 Fwy. Lots of service missing down there that has been taken away over the years. Historically bus service was good and the system got best nationally in 2008.

You could just call it the Pomona Valley Airport. Pomona sounds LA enough. Valley really adds that extra little bit of Cali to it, and helps distinguish it from Panama. Plus it sticks with the small-city theme, and you don't have to mix it up with some other bum nowhere airport like Imperial County.

The tunnel in Del Mar for Surfliner is facing major pushback as it must dig under multi-multi-million dollar properties. Huge pr campaign against it.

I literally grew up at ONT from the 70s to 90s. My dad was part of the original joint police/fire operation controlled by LAX. I used to travel regularly from ONT to wherever I needed to go (I grew up in Ontario and went to college at Redlands) using its original tiny terminal on the west end. I now live in Sacramento and it's really unfortunate that the terrible traffic in SoCal makes Long Beach and Burbank my current choices. Burbank actually provides a compelling example of what's possible, almost by accident. I land at the airport, walk across the street, grab a 20-minute train for about $7, and I'm in downtown LA's central rain terminal. Contrary to popular belief, I can literally get all over LA without car using this strategy. ONT is still suffering from the underutilization and mistreatment under its LAX ownership, and the parochial disrespect of the Inland Empire as a vast wasteland east of LA. Its potential has also been exacerbated by the foolish decision (in my opinion) of California's HSR project to emphasize a connection between LA and San Francisco, something nobody needs, rather than Las Vegas, San Diego, LA and Sacramento, the areas with the most projected need for housing and economic activity involving physical goods. Your video really demonstrates something I was corrected on early in my government career - letting reason and logic creep into your decision making. A funny example of this is the way ONT's second runway was built - LAX said no, and the ONT folks simply ignored them and built it guerrilla-style without any permission. I have no idea how they pulled it off but my dad was quite proud...he and fellow firefighters were out there pouring concrete themselves, LOL.

One thing I do love about LAX is how friendly it is to motorcyclists. I ride out from my home in pasadena 50 min before take off. I get there in 25 min with or without traffic. I can park right in the front of the nearest parking lot for free, and I just walk into the terminal. No other SoCal airports can support this.

Transit is not gonna be a thing for LA. The goose is cooked. If that's your number 1 priority and hill to die on, better look elsewhere

I think the better investment is to double track the Alhambra subdivision and to improve regional service on this line so that you can get between 2 and 4 tph at peak times to Ontario Airport, including a new station at the airport. Also, for the El Monte Busway, see this map: www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=10hRPJBAekaKvyDo0jBQrVmJUI928psaF&ll=34.09199547623966%2C-117.95711221381441&z=12 you can see that there used to be an alignment that provided a direct route between Rancho Cucamonga and Union Station.

America's refusal to build good public transit (especially connecting to their airports) needs to be studied.

High Speed Rail may not ever materialize so I'm not sure why they're being serious about it. I used to fly to SNA from No. California but LGB is my favorite. Much easier to access it via freeway. O.C. always seems to be a traffic jam. It's great that Southwest started using LGB as well as Hawaiian. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Ontario california airport was built to take on the CONCORD flights if it ever got approved for the west coast---. It never happened---.

If you want to rebrand, go big or go home: Greater Los Angeles International Airport. Your welcome.

You say LAX is not at capacity, yet it always seems to have the longest takeoff queues.

Love this ! Very true as I prefer to fly out of ONT for the past 20 years. LAX is the worst IMO and would love to have more flights originate to/from ONT.

What about LAX’s future cargo expansion/ redevelopment currently in the works? No mention of it?…

Ontario California has a reputation and history worth keeping. ONT all the way.

I'm from the IE and Los Angeles Imperial Airport would be confusing to me. Los Angeles - Inland Empire International Aiport doesn't have a ring to it but describes it clearly.

Ive lived in the IE all of my life. Renaming ONT and adding LA back into the name should be illegal, but I understand the argument. I don’t understand why Imperial should be on there. I would argue “Los Angeles Inland Empire” would be the better name

Too many people. Not enough real estate and engineering

Problem is ONT is in the middle of no where!