Los Angeles County Mayor Michael D. Antonovich issued testimony before the Board of Commissioners of Los Angeles World Airports in support of a Request for Proposals to secure a major airline to provide service to major hubs from the Palmdale Regional Airport: 

“The full operation of the Palmdale Municipal Airport is a vital step forward in the realization of a regional air transit system for Southern California.

In the 1960s, the Los Angeles City Airport Commission acquired the 17,000-acre Palmdale airport site, Ontario airport, and later contracted with the Air Force for plant 42’s runway and air terminal, for a regional airport network to meet the future population demands.

The immediate utilization of all the county’s regional airports is the only viable alternative to over-reliance on the dangerously congested air space and roadways at LAX.

Palmdale Airport is the future economic hub of the high desert in the heart of the fastest-growing area in California and will generate future development, interstate commerce, job creation and an estimated $65 million dollars in economic benefit to the community.”

The proposal was unanimously approved by the Board of Commissions