Ontario International Airport is expected to accommodate more than 180,000 passengers during the extended Thanksgiving holiday. That would nearly equal the passenger traffic handled by the airport during Thanksgiving 2019, four months before the pandemic hit, according to a statement released Tuesday by the Ontario International Airport Authority. Airport officials …
Read More »ONT continues its pandemic recovery
Ontario International Airport more than doubled its passenger traffic in October, getting within two percent of its count exactly two years earlier. The airport accommodated more than 494,000 travelers last month, a year-over-year increase of 127 percent and only 1.95 percent less than October 2019, according to data released Monday …
Read More »Palm Springs adds low-cost airline
Swoop Airlines is coming to the Coachella Valley. The Calgary, Alberta-based ultra-discount airline will begin service between Palm Springs International Airport and Edmonton International Airport starting December 21. The flights will operate Mondays and Thursdays on 189-seat Boeing 737-800 aircraft. “We are thrilled to begin service to Palm Springs International …
Read More »Cardenas Markets awards 59 scholarships
Cardenas Markets Foundation has awarded 59 $2,000 scholarships – $118,000 – to help local students pay for their higher education. “The fact that we can give back is so important to us,” said Adam Salgado, Cardenas Markets’ chief marketing officer and president of the Cardenas Markets Foundation. “Hispanics have had financial …
Read More »Local lending company plans to train people to be entrepreneurs
Since its founding in 2005, AmPac Business Capital has specialized in arranging loans for Inland Empire businesses through the U.S. Small Business Administration. But the company, which recently moved into 6,500 square feet of office space in Ontario, is about to start a new venture, one in which would-be …
Read More »Corona chamber gets second shot at Spirit award
For the second time in five years, the Corona Chamber of Commerce has been nominated for a Spirit of the Entrepreneur Award, the annual prize given out by the Inland Empire Center for Entrepreneurship at Cal State San Bernardino. The Corona chamber is one of four Inland organizations nominated in …
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