For Immediate Release

Los Angeles, CA

June 6, 2006

Press Contact:

David Sommers

Phone: (213) 974-1095

Fax: (213) 626-6941

DSommers@lacbos.org

City of Los Angeles Joins Southern California Regional Airport Authority

Thank you, Mayor.

We face regional challenges at our airports and we need regional solutions to solve those challenges.
 

I am proud the City of Los Angeles recognizes the need to be part of this partnership and I look forward to working with the Mayor, the City and all of our regional partners on improving access to our airports.
 

In the arena of air transportation specifically, we know that air passenger and cargo demand within the next twenty years will greatly outstrip current capacity. What is now necessary is a process to meet regional demand in a way that enhances the aviation resources we already have, and promotes synergy rather than competition and conflict in the region.

Today our local leaders are joining together – changing the dynamics of aviation policy and planning through an organization that already exists but has been inactive for the past several years--the Southern California Regional Airport Authority (SCRAA). Re-activating this organization at this time enables local leaders to be visionary as crucial aviation planning continues.
 

It is a time of unprecedented opportunity for the leadership of this ever-expanding region to acknowledge its mutual vested interest in creating a regional solution to aviation growth. We have reached the proverbial fork in the road.

 
Each county and city can proceed in its own best interest, or they can assemble and begin a historic dialogue about the future of air transportation in the Southern California region.
 

Thank you.

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