Flights

TODAY The 2012 Quantum Leap celebration will be from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. today and 9 a.m. to 8 p.m Sunday at the Burbank Marriot Hotel and Convention Center, 2500 Hollywood Way, Burbank. The event will celebrate the prediction of a positive change in 2012. Singers, bestselling authors and spiritual leaders will perform and speak during the event. Tickets are $195 for the weekend. Proceeds assist the 2012 One Heart Foundation to support children in Tibet and Guatemala.

Airline to add flights at Bob Hope Airport Officials at JetBlue Airways announced Tuesday that the airline will be adding a nonstop flight between Burbank and Washington, D.C. The service will be the first-ever one-stop airline connection between the San Fernando Valley and the nation?s capital, officials said. Starting on May 21, JetBlue will run two flights per day between Bob Hope and Dulles International Airport. That same day, JetBlue will also add nonstop service to Las Vegas to the Burbank flight roster.

Ban would allow people to sleep We are in favor of a mandatory ban on all flights from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. at Bob Hope Airport (?Residents letting their comments fly,? April 5). We live very close to Hollywood Way and are awakened almost every morning at about 5 a.m. by two or three planes landing. Unfortunately, they are not flying over Hollywood Way. They are making their turn and coming up directly over Kenwood Street and our neighborhood. We can see the planes clearly; they are so low at this point we can see the oil stains on the bottom of the planes, and at night the lights flash in our windows.

Gosh, time flies. Has it been 75 years? As JetBlue and Southwest, among others, fly out of Bob Hope Airport each day, and as passengers come and go, it's easy to forget about Bob Hope Airport's 75-year history, which was celebrated this week. The din of commercial airliners and the hustle and bustle of a modern-day terminal that serves 5 million passengers a year belies the fact that over the last 75 years, the role has evolved with the times.

Mark R. Madler AIRPORT DISTRICT -- Passengers on Tuesday morning's inaugural flight of JetBlue service between Burbank and New York City were treated to New York-style hot dogs and pretzels in the terminal. And airport fire vehicles sprayed water over the airplane as it approached the gate. Delia Ibarra, of Los Angeles, was the first passenger to get off the plane after it pulled up to Gate A9 at Bob Hope Airport. "We used to come to Long Beach [Airport]

Laura Sturza AIRPORT DISTRICT -- History flies into town Friday when the Wings of Freedom Tour celebrates veterans and airplane assembly line workers by bringing restored fighter planes to the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport. The tour travels the country to boost American patriotism. The local stop is sponsored by the B-17 Combat Crewmen and Wingmen, a group of historians and World War II veterans. "These planes were built at a time when the whole nation was aroused to right an injustice," said Bob Stane, president of the B-17 Combat Crewmen and Wingmen.

AIRPORT DISTRICT — Dozens of residents filtered in and out of the airport Sky Room Monday afternoon, as a brief video laid out the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority’s case for banning all late-night and early-morning flights. The four-hour workshop was the first public input session meant to gain support for the proposed curfew laid out in the Part 161 Study that would ban all flights, save for emergency, between the hours of 10 p.m. and 7 a.m. Informational packets were also made available and airport officials were on hand to answer questions from residents.

Mark R. Madler AIRPORT DISTRICT -- Passenger traffic at Bob Hope Airport spiked by about 200,000 people last year, compared to 2003. It was the third year in a row the airport experienced an upswing in people coming through its terminal, officials said. A big reason why 2004 saw an increase in passengers flying again were low airfares, this despite the increased costs in jet fuel, said Brian Streeval, an industry analyst with the Boyd Group, an aviation-consulting and forecasting company based in Colorado.