Norton AFB to take commercial airlines next year?
Posted: 24 Sep 2007, 14:47San Bernadino International Airport is quietly coming on stream, just north ot I10 near the I215 intersection...
This piece from the LA Times
San Bernardino airport may see flights next year
The facility at the former Norton Air Force Base has languished since the base closed in '94. But it's being upgraded, and the city says air service is coming soon.
By David Kelly, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
September 24, 2007
For years, San Bernardino International Airport has seemed more fiction than fact, a vast sheet of concrete with a grand title where the chirp of crickets is often louder than the roar of jet engines.
The very things that make an airport an airport -- passengers, terminals, scheduled flights -- are missing here. The control tower is impressive but empty.
But years of quiet building, ambitious starts and frequent failures might finally be paying off.
Officials at the airport, the former Norton Air Force Base, now say they are negotiating with four airlines for regular passenger service to begin next year.
They won't reveal the firms they are talking with, but so far they have spent $34 million to refurbish the runway, $38 million for a new passenger terminal and $8 million to widen roads leading to the airport in eastern San Bernardino.
Full piece can be read here.
This piece from the LA Times
San Bernardino airport may see flights next year
The facility at the former Norton Air Force Base has languished since the base closed in '94. But it's being upgraded, and the city says air service is coming soon.
By David Kelly, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
September 24, 2007
For years, San Bernardino International Airport has seemed more fiction than fact, a vast sheet of concrete with a grand title where the chirp of crickets is often louder than the roar of jet engines.
The very things that make an airport an airport -- passengers, terminals, scheduled flights -- are missing here. The control tower is impressive but empty.
But years of quiet building, ambitious starts and frequent failures might finally be paying off.
Officials at the airport, the former Norton Air Force Base, now say they are negotiating with four airlines for regular passenger service to begin next year.
They won't reveal the firms they are talking with, but so far they have spent $34 million to refurbish the runway, $38 million for a new passenger terminal and $8 million to widen roads leading to the airport in eastern San Bernardino.
Full piece can be read here.