Bob Hope Airport
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| Bob Hope Airport | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| IATA: BUR - ICAO: KBUR | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | public | ||
| Operator | the Burbank- Glendale- Pasadena Airport Authority | ||
| Serves | Burbank, California | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 778 ft (237 m) | ||
| Coordinates | 34° 12' 2" N
118° 21' 31" W | ||
| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| ft | m | ||
| 15/33 | 6,886 | 2,099 | Paved |
| 8/26 | 5,801 | 1,768 | Paved |
Bob Hope Airport (IATA: BUR, ICAO: KBUR), formerly known as the United Airport, Hollywood-Burbank Airport, and Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport, is located in Burbank, California, United States and serves the Los Angeles, California area including Glendale, Pasadena, and the San Fernando Valley. Non-stop flights from the airport go mostly to destinations within the western United States but service also includes Atlanta, New York, and Chicago (from September 2005). The airport has 2 runways.
The airport is owned by the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority, which is controlled by the governments of the three cities in its name. On November 11, 2004, the authority voted to change the airport's name to Bob Hope Airport, in honor of the late comedian Bob Hope, who died earlier in the year, and had kept his personal airplane there. The new name was unveiled on December 17 on the 100th anniversary of the Wright brothers' first flight in 1903, the year that Bob Hope was born.
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Terminals
Bob Hope Airport has two terminals which are joined together as part of the same building. The Bob Hope Airport train station, adjacent to the airport, is served by Amtrak and Metrolink.
Terminal A
| Burbank Airport (train station) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Address | 3750 Empire Ave. Burbank, California 91505 | ||
| Amtrak routes | Pacific Surfliner | ||
| Other service | Metrolink Ventura County Line | ||
| Amtrak code | BUR | Owned by | {{{owned}}} |
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- JetBlue Airways (New York/JFK)
- Southwest Airlines (Chicago/Midway [Saturdays only, ends 29 October, 2005], Las Vegas, Oakland, Phoenix, Sacramento, San Jose (CA))
- US Airways dba America West Airlines (Las Vegas, Phoenix)
- Mesa Airlines dba America West Express (Las Vegas, Phoenix)
Terminal B
- Alaska Airlines (Seattle/Tacoma)
- Horizon Air (Portland (OR))
- American Airlines (Dallas/Fort Worth)
- Delta Air Lines (Atlanta)
- SkyWest dba Delta Connection (Salt Lake City)
- United Airlines (Denver, San Francisco)
- SkyWest dba United Express (Denver, San Francisco)
Expansion
In 2002, Terminal A was renovated and expanded. Plans had been in existence for years to expand the airport with a new passenger terminal north of the existing one, but these plans have been scrapped due to opposition from the Burbank City Council and local groups. A 2004 FAA report cited the need for expansion at this airport, but for now this seems impossible due to agreed upon restrictions of the size and number of gates.
Trivia
- In the film Nothing So Strange, Bill Gates is flown into this airport on a Microsoft jet before he makes his appearance in MacArthur Park in Los Angeles. There, Gates is shot and killed in a fictional assassination.
External links
- Bob Hope Airport homepage
- Information resources for this U.S. airport (IATA: BUR, ICAO: KBUR):
- Maps and aerial photos
- Street map from MapQuest or Google Local
- Topographic map from TopoZone
- Aerial image or topographic map from TerraServer-USA
- Satellite image from Google Local
