Curfew

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.

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 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, said Bob Hope Airport spokesman Victor Gill.

BURBANK — A subcommittee of the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority approved a $6-million study Wednesday that could make the case for a historical mandatory curfew on evening flights at Bob Hope Airport. After nine years of revisions, a final version of the Part 161 study will be voted on by the full Authority Commission on Monday. “If it’s approved Monday, the study will be submitted to the Federal Aviation Administration to help make our case to support the application for a full mandatory curfew on nighttime flights,” Bob Hope Airport spokesman Victor Gill said.

BURBANK — A subcommittee of the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority approved a $6-million study Wednesday that could make the case for a historical mandatory curfew on evening flights at Bob Hope Airport. After nine years of revisions, a final version of the Part 161 study will be voted on by the full Authority Commission on Monday. “If it’s approved Monday, the study will be submitted to the Federal Aviation Administration to help make our case to support the application for a full mandatory curfew on nighttime flights,” Bob Hope Airport spokesman Victor Gill said.

BURBANK — The Burbank-Glendale- Pasadena Airport Authority unanimously approved a $44,500 contract with a communications firm to inform the public through presentations, meetings and advertisements about the Bob Hope Airport’s efforts to obtain a nighttime curfew for all flights. Cooper Communications also will have to inform the public that the airport would support a similar nighttime curfew at the Van Nuys Airport, Communication Firm President Martin Cooper said at Wednesday’s authority meeting.

Writers’ strike hits local economy 1Burbank and Glendale, two cities whose businesses are reliant to a large extent on the film industry, were shaken early this year by a costly, 100-day work stoppage at the hands of the Writers Guild of America. The strike, which ended Feb. 27 and featured numerous demonstrations at area production companies, resulted in increased residual payments for new media projects and established a new system for the union to calculate how much writers will receive from recurring new media projects.

BURBANK — The Burbank- Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority tacked on another work order Monday to its Part 161 application that would enact the nation’s first nighttime ban on noisier planes. If the Federal Aviation Administration approves the ban — which would prohibit landings or departures between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m. at Bob Hope Airport — it would be the first of its kind to ground Stage 3 planes, which feature noisier technology than most of today’s modern aircraft.

BURBANK — The Bob Hope Airport authority voted unanimously on Monday to approve an extended work order to analyze what must be done to complete an application toward imposing an airport curfew. The Part 161 Application, the first of its kind nationwide, would impose a ban on airport flights between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m. if approved by the Federal Aviation Authority. The Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority started the 161 study in the summer of 2000 and spent $6 million trying to finish it, airport spokesman Victor Gill said.

BURBANK — The Bob Hope Airport authority elected a new president, vice president and secretary for fiscal year 2008-09 on Monday. Former Burbank Mayor Bill Wiggins was named president of the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority, former Pasadena Councilwoman Joyce Streator will be vice president, and former Glendale councilman Rafi Manoukian will be secretary. “I was looking for the rotation to go the way it did in the past,” Pasadena Commissioner Chris Holden said.