Take this with a grain of salt....

LAX is maxed out, and the base was shrinking until March of 2020. COVID kept it alive. ONT has room to grow. In talking with a senior ramp agent there, rumor is there is plans (and blueprints) to double the size of that operation within the next 5 years, so 18 gates total. This is coming from upper management types that have visited the site over the last year. Apparently, FedEx bought up the real estate just to the east of the new facility (where all the abandoned hangars and piles of dirt sit) to stop the encroachment of Amazon's build out there. I have heard whatever replaces the MD-11, may end up there, potentially as a crew base. This timeline could be accelerated if the MX hangar that sits between the parallels at LAX moves to ONT, which has been proposed. The city of Los Angeles would love to get their hands on that real estate, and may make a sweet deal.....

Again, just a fun rumor I have heard while passing thru there!

-KP