Curfew

AIRPORT DISTRICT — The Federal Aviation Administration announced Monday that it has rejected the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority’s application for flight curfews at Bob Hope Airport. The long-awaited decision deals a major blow to the thousands of residents who have fought for a nighttime noise curfew since the 1970s. The airport authority’s proposal — nine years and $7 million in the making — would have banned air traffic at Bob Hope Airport between 10 p.m. and 6:59 a.m., with exceptions for emergency flights and medical aircraft.

AIRPORT DISTRICT — The Federal Aviation Administration announced Monday that it has rejected the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority’s application for noise relief at Bob Hope Airport. The long-awaited decision deals a major blow to the thousands of residents who have fought for a nighttime noise curfew since the 1970s. The airport authority’s proposal — nine years and $7 million in the making — would have forbid air traffic at Bob Hope Airport between 10 p.m. and 6:59 a.m., with exceptions for emergency flights and medical aircraft.

From the beginning, the push for a nighttime noise curfew at Bob Hope Airport was viewed as a long shot. A successful Part 161 study had never been approved by the Federal Aviation Administration, the odds of political push back from neighboring districts was high. And, of course, it would be expensive. In the years since, the Burbank-Glendale- Pasadena Airport Authority has spent millions on carefully crafting the federal application for a noise curfew at Bob Hope Airport in an effort to provide some relief to nearby residents.

BURBANK ? After airport officials invested about $7 million to achieve a nighttime noise curfew at Bob Hope Airport, city leaders are gearing up for one last push. A team of Burbank officials will join Mayor Gary Bric and Councilman Dave Golonski on a trip next week to the nation?s capital before the Federal Aviation Administration renders a decision by Nov. 1. The group plans to meet with lawmakers, particularly those who oversee transportation and aviation committees, to discuss options to deliver meaningful nighttime noise relief.

BURBANK — After investing some $7 million to achieve a nighttime noise curfew at Bob Hope Airport, local government officials are gearing up for one last push. A team of Burbank officials will join Mayor Gary Bric and Councilman Dave Golonski on a trip next week to the nation’s capital before the Federal Aviation Administration renders a decision by Nov. 1. The group plans to meet with lawmakers, particularly those who oversee transportation and aviation committees, to discuss options to deliver meaningful nighttime noise relief.

Rep. Adam Schiff, together with his Democratic colleague Howard Berman, this week urged the Federal Aviation Administration to approve mandatory nighttime curfews for flights at Bob Hope Airport and other local Southern California airstrips. On Thursday, Schiff told the House subcommittee that funds the aviation agency that the curfew, known as the Part 161 Study, would impact a “relatively small number of diverted flights while delivering significant reductions” in noise impacts and mitigation costs for neighborhoods.

BOB HOPE AIRPORT — The Federal Aviation Administration on Friday informed the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority that its application for a proposed nighttime curfew at Bob Hope Airport was complete, setting off a nearly six-month review period. The announcement, made late Friday in an announcement signed by Catherine Lang, the FAA’s acting associate administrator for airports, establishes that the authority’s roughly 800-page request to restrict all landings and departures at Bob Hope Airport between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m. is complete.

BURBANK — The Federal Aviation Administration on Thursday informed the Burbank-Glendale- Pasadena Airport Authority that its application for a proposed nighttime curfew at Bob Hope Airport — nine years and $6 million in the making — is complete, with two minor exceptions. The announcement was made in a letter addressed to the authority’s executive director, Dan Feger, and signed by the FAA’s acting associate administrator for airports, Catherine Lang.

BURBANK — The Burbank- Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority Commission voted unanimously Monday in favor of a study it will use to support Bob Hope Airport’s application for a curfew on nighttime and early-morning flights. After eight years and $6 million spent on the Part 161 Study, the approval by the nine-member commission was the final step in completing the first study of its kind since the process was legalized by Congress in 1991. The Federal Aviation Administration will now have one month to accept the study and six months to make a ruling on it, Bob Hope Airport spokesman Victor Gill said.