Fewer passengers take off from Bob Hope Airport in January
Parking revenue at Bob Hope decreased nearly 1% in January, coming in at roughly $1.47 million compared to about $14.8 million in January 2015.
Bob Hope Airport had seen a trend of increased passengers during the winter holiday months. However, the upward movement ended in January when the airport reported 296,100 passengers compared to 297,209 in January 2015, a 0.4% dip.
The slight decrease was about 7,945 passengers short of the airport’s projections, said Mark Hardyment, the airport’s director of government and environmental affairs, during a Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority meeting on Monday.
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Looking at specific airlines, Alaska Airlines saw a 10.4% drop, or about 3,400 passengers, and JetBlue Airways fell 3.9%, or 294 passengers compared to January 2015. American Airlines saw a decline of 1.7%, or nearly 230 passengers for the month.
Southwest Airlines, the airfield’s largest carrier, managed a slight bump, seeing 489 more passengers compared to the year before. United Airlines also saw a rise, increasing 7.9%, or more than 1,300 passengers. Delta Air Lines saw a spike of more than 21%, or about 1,100 passengers in January.
Also, Portland, Ore.-based carrier SeaPort Airlines discontinued its services in California and Mexico on Jan. 16.
Parking revenue at Bob Hope decreased nearly 1% in January, coming in at roughly $1.47 million compared to about $1.48 million in January 2015. The revenue generated this past January was about $32,300 shy of airport officials’ projections.
Officials have said that parking revenue is being adversely impacted because more passengers are using rideshare services to get to and leave the airport.
However, activity continues to grow in the airfield’s short-term parking structure, seeing more than an 11% hike over the previous year because rideshare drivers must pay a $3 parking fee to pick up passengers in the structure.
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