Boarding uses air stairs instead of jet bridges. They also share police helicopters registered N102CG and N103CG both based out of Burbank airport on the north-east end of the airport on taxiway Bravo.

The Airport Authority contracts with TBI Airport Management, Inc., to operate the airport, which has its own police and fire departments, the Burbank–Glendale–Pasadena Airport Authority Police. The airport is owned by the Burbank–Glendale–Pasadena Airport Authority and controlled by the governments of those cities. Originally, the entire airport was within the Burbank city limits, but the north end of Runway 15/33 has been extended into the city of Los Angeles. Southwest also occasionally flies non regular routes to the East Coast. Nonstop flights mostly serve cities in the western United States, though JetBlue has daily flights to New York City. It is closer to many popular attractions, including Griffith Park, Universal Studios Hollywood, and Downtown Los Angeles, than Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), and it is the only airport in the area with a direct rail connection to Downtown Los Angeles, with service from two stations: Burbank Airport–North and Burbank Airport–South. The airport serves Burbank, Hollywood, and the northern Greater Los Angeles area, which includes Glendale, Pasadena, the San Fernando Valley and the Santa Clarita Valley.

Hollywood Burbank Airport, legally and formerly marketed as Bob Hope Airport after entertainer Bob Hope ( IATA: BUR, ICAO: KBUR, FAA LID: BUR), is a public airport three miles (4.8 km) northwest of downtown Burbank, in Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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