EDITORIAL A FLYING LEAP PALMDALE OPENING IS A MAJOR STEP IN AIRPORT REGIONALIZATION.LOS Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. took a leap into airport regionalization regionalization Managed care The subdivision of a broadly available service–eg, a blood bank, into quasi-autonomous regional centers, capable of making decisions and providing more cost-effective and/or faster service to hospitals and health care facilities, , which came from the sky in the form of a United jet. The airline last week launched twice-daily service between Palmdale Airport and San Francisco. It's nothing close to the volume of Los Angeles International Airport “LAX” redirects here. For other uses, see LAX (disambiguation). “KLAX” redirects here. For other uses, see KLAX (disambiguation). Los Angeles International Airport (IATA: LAX, ICAO: KLAX, FAA LID: LAX , but it's the first real step toward establishing the Antelope Valley as an important part of regionalizing air traffic. The city-bound LAX can and should only grow so much. Already the overtaxed behemoth behemoth (bē`hĭmŏth, bĭhē`–) [Heb.,=plural of beast], large, fanciful primeval monster, like Leviathan, evoking the hippopotamus mentioned in the Book of Job. is a burden to its neighbors. Air-traffic growth must be contained primarily in regional outposts such as the Antelope Valley and Ontario. We welcome United to Palmdale and hope to say the same to other air carriers soon. |
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