More flights to help Palmdale

Struggling to fill flights a year after commercial operations resumed at the Palmdale airport, officials say they now want to double the number of daily flights to four and make trips more attractive by using fuel-efficient turboprop planes instead of jets. Karen Maeshiro in the Daily News.

While passengers favor the airport's easy access, fast check-in and quick security-screening time, the airport must boost connecting flights to remain commercially viable, officials said.

"We've lacked the schedule frequency that we need to make the service work with ... government, military and aerospace contractors," said Paul Haney, deputy executive director of Los Angeles World Airports, which operates L.A./Palmdale Regional Airport.

He said additional flights are also