This California County Can’t Fly

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[@marcmcreynolds2827]

The residents shouldn't be allowed to make their own choice as to a longer or shorter airport drive? Someone else should decide for these bad bad people? An extra 30-90 minutes of driving isn't a big deal when your family will save several hundred dollars (or much more), plus save on total travel time as well if a nonstop flight. Families rarely get stranded in a connecting airport on a nonstop flight.
Southern California has more than one story of airports which failed to achieve "critical mass" and so were shunned in favor of those offering far more destinations and lower prices. Santa Barbara used to see United 727-200s, but over time people (bad, selfish people) voted with their wallets for other airports. Ontario International is Ventura on steroids: Many millions of people can get to it faster or much faster than LAX (or BUR or LGB or SNA). Yet it remains something of a ghost town for an airport of that size, seeing roughly half the annual passengers of even pricey capacity-constrained SNA and its teensy jet runway.
If I lived in Ventura County, I would be in favor of a jet airport sporting numerous destinations for at least somewhat reasonable prices. Plus I like to watch jets fly by, which is one reason why I live under an airport traffic pattern. But I wouldn't tell people somewhere else what they ought to do (not about airports, anyway ; )
Edit: It may not be practical thanks to the coastal mountains (or the cost in general relative to passenger volume), but a high-speed rail line running from Santa Barbara to LAX with a stop in Ventura County would perhaps give residents something close to best of both worlds. Otherwise it's back to the nut which even surrounded-by-millions ONT hasn't been able to crack: How to compete advantage-for-advantage with a major airport that's less than several hours away. Many of those are thus relegated to serving as little more than feeder airports for the major, e.g. Pueblo-DEN

[@PC-vq5ud]

You're assumptions about an airport. Revitalize in the economy of an entire county are wildly optimistic at best

[@RWernsing]

If they cared, they could move. Because no one much wants to visit.