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It's all in an effort to get a good night's rest in the Valley. The Daily News sums the aviation battle up nicely: "Burbank eventually wants to send 32 flights a day to Van Nuys to ease congestion. Van Nuys officials don't want any of Burbank's air traffic, but they want to divert their noisiest aircraft to Burbank and other airports." Both airports ultimately would like to cut nighttime flights except for emergencies, but that's up to the FAA to impose a curfew. And to make it through their process could take up to months or years. And well... Burbank is ahead in their application process with the feds.
Noise Wars: Burbank vs. Van Nuys Airport
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Begley is a raving nutball and he is dead wrong. StrokerMcgurk
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So if you're on an afternoon flight to Burbank and you get bumped, and would end up in Van Nuys... will they have shuttles to your car that's parked in Burbank? Because god knows people don't take public transit in the valley, and the only way to get to Burbank airport is by bus, anyway.
Burbank can decrease the number of night time flights for the oh-so-sensitive neighbors (who bought houses there knowing there was an airport), but don't expect all the airlines to stick around. It will become too unprofitable to operate out of Burbank and they'll move all their flights to LAX (or Santa Ana, or Long Beach).
Well, Van Nuys is an airport for more smaller and private-er airplanes, not for the likes of Southwest commercial jets. When they want to push certain flights to the other airport, it's more along the lines of smaller aircraft that land at both.
"sensitive neighbors (who bought houses there knowing there was an airport),"
many thousands of those neighbors are low income people who live in apartments, not houses, like myself, who live here because its cheap, and close to work. and my place is several miles from the burbank airport and yet the planes still fly right over me and its thundering loud several dozen times a day.
And many of us bought houses with the understanding there would be a certain amount of noise, which we deemed liveable on our incomes. Recent attempts at expansion and the possibility of an unknown amount of noise at unknown hours is not what we bargained for. How naive.
And it never occurred to you that it's cheap to live there because it's near an AIRPORT? I fail to see how airport expansion affects the quality of noise, only perhaps the frequency.