Bob Hope Airport (IATA: BUR, ICAO: KBUR, FAA LID: BUR) is a public use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) northwest of the central business district of Burbank, a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The airport serves the northern Greater Los Angeles area, including the cities of Glendale, Pasadena, and the San Fernando Valley. It is also closer to Griffith Park and Hollywood than is Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), and is the only airport in the greater Los Angeles area with a direct rail connection to downtown Los Angeles. Non-stop flights from the airport go mostly to destinations within the western United States but service also includes New York City. The west end of Runway 8/26 and the north end of Runway 15/33 actually stretch into the City of Los Angeles.
The airport is owned by the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority, which is controlled by the governments of the three cities in its name. The Airport Authority contracts with TBI Airport Management, Inc. to operate the airport. The airport maintains its own police department, the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority Police. Boarding uses airstairs or ramps rather than jet bridges, unlike most major airports.
As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 2,647,287 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 2,294,991 enplanements in 2009, and 2,239,804 in 2010. It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a primary commercial service airport (more than 10,000 enplanements per year).
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