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Article: Burbank airport soars despite continued opposition. (Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport)(Special Report: San Fernando Valley)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- August 5, 1991
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Burbank airport soars despite continued opposition
When the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport opened in 1930, the San Fernando Valley had fewer than 25,000 residents and only a few aircraft flew into it each week. The commercial airline industry was in its infancy and most of the flights carried mail or were tests of Lockheed Corp. equipment.
Lockheed Corp. no longer owns the airport and now there are 1.3 million people living in the valley. Six major carriers operate about 75 flights a day out of the airport, where last year passenger traffic jumped 29 percent to 3.5 million.
For many years the airport was considered a stepchild to sprawling Los ...