Originally Posted by
sailingfun
We had LGB slots once and gave it up. Would we want them back?
Cool airport but not worth it IMO. Its a political nightmare that will never be fixed, only get worse and they set you up for fines and jack you around constantly. The only possible reason would be if it enabled the capture of solid yield LA metro traffic that couldn't be achieved anywhere else but I'm not seeing that to any significant extent.
Since were throwing billions around in mafiaesque payola schemes (average price per new gate in big cities is well into the hundreds of millions lol yeah right) then maybe pairing it with an "investment" of "protection money" for a new facility of some sort would allow an airline to get rock solid contractual protections from future shakedowns maybe but who knows.
I see it as a medium risk-medium to low reward endeavor.