AIRLINES URGED TO CUT EARLY FLIGHTS.Byline: Susan Abram Staff Writer BURBANK - The Burbank City Council has asked its staff to write letters to United and American airlines American Airlines Major U.S. airline. American was created through a merger of several smaller U.S. airlines and incorporated in 1934. It continued to buy the routes of other airlines, becoming an international carrier in the 1970s; its routes include South America, the , asking them to reschedule re·sched·ule tr.v. re·sched·uled, re·sched·ul·ing, re·sched·ules To schedule again or anew: rescheduled the meeting for the following week; rescheduled the debts of many developing nations. two early morning flights out of Burbank Airport on Sundays to quell quell tr.v. quelled, quell·ing, quells 1. To put down forcibly; suppress: Police quelled the riot. 2. noise complaints. Both airlines have begun offering early morning flights on Sundays since June 14. American flies to Dallas at 6:49 a.m. United offers a 6:40 a.m. flight to San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden on Sunday. Unlike John Wayne Airport John Wayne Airport (IATA: SNA, ICAO: KSNA, FAA LID: SNA) is located at 18601 Airport Way, Santa Ana, CA 92707. Other nearby cities include Newport Beach, Costa Mesa, and Irvine. , Burbank Airport does not have a mandatory curfew curfew [O.Fr.,=cover fire], originally a signal, such as the ringing of a bell, to damp the fire, extinguish all lights in the dwelling, and retire for the night. The custom originated as a precaution against fires and was common throughout Europe in the Middle Ages. in place which regulates arrivals and departures. Instead, the airport has relies on the good faith of the airlines to keep up a voluntary curfew. Flights are not supposed to depart from Burbank after 10 p.m. or before 7 a.m. ``The airport wrote letters to them, but the council wants to write their own, and they want Pasadena and Glendale to do the same,'' said Burbank City Attorney Dennis Barlow. The council is expected to approve the letters Tuesday. Burbank Airport Authority spokesman Victor Gill said schedule changes are routine, but the authority does not want the airlines to assume that changes can be made without understanding the history of noise complaints in Burbank. ``Sometimes, the airlines have to adjust the times for connecting to flights in the system,'' Gill said. ``They are constantly tweaking tweaking Vox populi Fine-tuning to produce optimal results their overall schedule, to make it possible to make those connections. We keep giving them reminders. We want them to be as sensitive as possible. The issue for us as well as the city is to make them aware of the constraints of our legal history.'' A spokesman for American Airlines did not return calls Friday. A spokesman for United Airlines could not be reached for comment. ``Typically, the position we try to stake out with the airlines is the very long history of the noise issue in this city,'' Gill said. ``Even though the violations will only be for a very few minutes, we try to urge them to keep it within those limits. ``I think the good news from a historical point of view is that they have minimized flights after the curfew hours, but that doesn't stop us from holding their feet to the fire,'' Gill said. Susan Abram, (818) 546-3304 susan.abram(at)dailynews.com |
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