AIRPORT PASSENGER VOLUME RETURNING TO PRE-SEPT. 11 LEVELS.Byline: Susan SUSAN Smallest Univalue Segment Assimilating Nucleus SUSAN Sub Saharan African Network SUSAN Smart Ultrasonic System for Aircraft NDE Abram Abram: see Abraham. Staff Writer BURBANK - Burbank Airport is experiencing ``pre- pre- word element [L.], before (in time or space). pre- pref. 1. Earlier; before; prior to: prenatal. 2. 9-11 numbers'' of travelers, with passenger totals hitting 418,660 in June - a 4.6 percent increase from 400,126 travelers a year earlier, airport spokesman Victor Gill gill, in weights and measures gill, in weights and measures: see English units of measurement. said Tuesday. Travelers, he said, appear to be slowly overcoming their hesitation to fly, born of the Sept. 11, 2001, airline terrorism. ``My sense is there's been time for people to get used to the environment, and the rigors of security screening,'' Gill said. ``June as an indicator would give us a sense it's going to be a fairly busy travel summer. July and August are heavy.'' Even as summertime travel increases overall at the airport, rates for parking near the airport are falling. On Monday, Burbank Hilton Hotel's ACE Parking reduced its long-term Long-term Three or more years. In the context of accounting, more than 1 year. long-term 1. Of or relating to a gain or loss in the value of a security that has been held over a specific length of time. Compare short-term. parking fees from $9.80 daily to $7.50 and promised customers a free newspaper and bottled water on the shuttle shuttle: see loom. shuttle In the weaving of cloth, a spindle-shaped device used to carry the crosswise threads (weft) through the lengthwise threads (warp). Not all modern looms use a shuttle; shuttleless looms draw the weft from a nonmoving supply. ride to the Burbank Airport, said parking manager Elias Constantinides. ``I think if anything, the volume of passengers who use the parking has increased at the airport, but as far as the Hilton, we are seeing at least a 50 percent decline since last year,'' Constantinides said. The lot faces more competition with the opening late last year of private Star Parking, which offers 2,200 spaces in a lot adjacent to the airport's parking structure. In December, the airport slashed slash v. slashed, slash·ing, slash·es v.tr. 1. To cut or form by cutting with forceful sweeping strokes: slash a path through the underbrush. 2. its parking fees nearly in half from $9 to $4.55 in response to Star Park's opening. ``That demand on our parking is greater is attributed to our reductions last December,'' Gill said. Brett Foy, vice president for Zelman Develop Co., which owns Star Park, said the boom in air travel is helping his business establish a reputation in the parking market. ``Our business is improving and we're making progress every month,'' Foy said. ``It's good for everybody. As travel goes up, there's enough customers going around. I think if the airport didn't price their rates so low, they would be losing more customers.'' Susan Abram, (818) 546-3304 susan.abram(at)dailynews.com |
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