Bob Hope Airport, formerly known as the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport, is located in Burbank, California, United States and to a degree, serves the Los Angeles, California metro-region. Its IATA airport code is BUR. Non-stop flights from the airport go mostly to destinations within the western United States. This article or section should be merged with Burbank, Los Angeles County, California This article is about the Burbank in Southern California. ... Downtown Los Angeles skyline facing northeast toward the San Gabriel Mountains on a clear winter day. ... The IATA airport code is a three-letter alphabetic code designating many airports around the world. ...

The airport is owned by the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority, which is controlled by the governments of the three cities in its name. On 2003-11-04, the authority voted to change the airport's name to Bob Hope Airport, in honor of the late comedian Bob Hope, who died earlier in the year, and had kept his personal airplane there. The new name was unveiled on December 17 on the 100th anniversary of the Wright brothers' first flight in 1903, the year that Bob Hope was born. 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... November 4 is the 308th day of the year (309th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 57 days remaining. ... A comedian (also comedienne, female) is a person who attempts to make people laugh through a variety of methods, normally through joke telling, or a stream of funny banter. ... Leslie Townes Hope KBE (May 29, 1903 – July 27, 2003), best known as Bob Hope, was a famous entertainer, having appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway, on radio and television, movies and in army concerts. ... Fixed-wing aircraft is a term used to refer to what are more commonly known as aeroplanes in Commonwealth English (excluding Canada) or airplanes in North American English. ... December 17 is the 351st day of the year (352nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... First flight, December 17, 1903. ... 1903 has the latest occurring solstices and equinoxes for 400 years, because the Gregorian calendar hasnt had a leap year for seven years or a century leap year since 1600. ...

Bob Hope Airport has one terminal. The Burbank train station, adjacent to the airport, is served by Amtrak and Metrolink. Amtrak is the trademark name of an intercity passenger train system created on May 1, 1971 in the United States. ... A picture taken inside a Metrolink train car heading towards Orange County, California Metrolink is a commuter rail system that serves a great deal of the Southern California region. ...

In the film Nothing So Strange, Bill Gates is flown into this airport on a Microsoft jet before he makes his appearance in Macarthur Park in Los Angeles. There, Gates is shot and killed in a fictional assassination. Nothing So Strange is an independent documentary about the assassination of Microsoft chairman Bill Gates on December 2, 1999. ... Bill Gates William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955), commonly known as Bill Gates, is an American businessman and a microcomputer pioneer. ... Microsoft Corporation, (NASDAQ: MSFT) headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA, was founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. ... Downtown Los Angeles skyline facing northeast toward the San Gabriel Mountains on a clear winter day. ...

Main Terminal

• Alaska Airlines (Portland and Seattle)
• America West Airlines (Phoenix)
• American Airlines (Dallas/Fort Worth)
• Delta Air Lines (Atlanta and Salt Lake City)
• Horizon Air (Portland (OR))
• JetBlue (New York/Kennedy)
• Mesa Air dba America West Express (Las Vegas)
• Southwest Airlines (Las Vegas, Oakland, Sacramento, San Jose, Phoenix)
• Skywest dba United Express (Denver, San Francisco)
• United Airlines (Denver, San Francisco)

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See also

• Glendale, California
• Pasadena, California

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External links

• Bob Hope Airport homepage (http://www.bur.com/)