USAir to Add 7 Flights From Burbank to Bay Area
USAir announced Thursday it will soon add seven flights at Burbank Airport, increasing the crush of passengers that has swamped parking lots since the beginning of an airline fare war last month.
The new flights to the San Francisco Bay Area, beginning July 1, are in addition to the airline’s 16 daily flights from Burbank that began in April. That will bring the airport’s total to 80 flights a day, a 31% increase over June, 1989, an airport spokesman said.
The spokesman said incomplete records indicate that in the last two weeks of April, average daily passenger traffic was about 9,700, nearly 40% higher than in April, 1989.
The new flights will increase noise in nearby neighborhoods to “terrible levels,” a homeowner group leader complained. “When the airlines fight a fare war,” said Tom Paterson, president of Valley Village Homeowners Assn. in North Hollywood, “it’s the people on the ground who suffer.”
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