The New Hollywood Burbank Airport Terminal Opens October 13. Here Is What Is Actually Confirmed.

The replacement passenger terminal at Hollywood Burbank Airport opens Tuesday, October 13, 2026. That is today.

If you are flying out this week, or picking someone up, a few things change on day one. Parking rates, which lots exist, and most likely the entrance you use.

I want to be straight about something before I start. As I write this, the airport has not published a press release about the opening. Its own traffic advisory page is still dated September 1 and still describes the old access pattern. So some of what is circulating is reported by news outlets and is not posted by the airport itself.

I am going to separate those two things for you, because on a travel day that difference matters.

When does the new Burbank airport terminal open?

Tuesday, October 13, 2026.

The ribbon cutting already happened on October 5. That was a ceremony, not the opening. Public operations start the 13th.

This date is solid. It appears on the airport's own parking pages, which are operational pages that would have to change if the date moved.

What is parking going to cost?

This is the part most people have not heard, because no news outlet has reported it. These figures are on the airport's own parking page.

Starting October 13:

Self park: $49 per day. The current maximum daily rate is $42.

Valet: $59 per day.

EV charging in self park: $0.50 per kWh. In valet it is available on request with a handling fee the airport has not published.

So budget about seven dollars more a day than you did last week, and more than that if you valet.

Which parking lots are closing?

Lot E closes permanently on October 13. Not for construction. Permanently.

Lot C already closed on August 16. If you have not flown since the summer, that one may be news to you too.

One more thing worth knowing: pre booking is unavailable right now. The airport is switching parking operators. Drive up parking still works, but you cannot reserve ahead the way you could before.

I would plan for that. Showing up expecting a reservation you could not make is a bad way to start a trip.

Is the airport entrance really moving?

Probably, and this is the part I cannot confirm.

Two news outlets report the main entrance moves from Thornton Avenue to Winona Avenue at Hollywood Way on opening day. I have no reason to doubt them.

But the airport's own traffic advisory page is dated September 1, more than six weeks ago. It still tells drivers to use the Empire Avenue entrance or come in westbound from Thornton. It says nothing about October 13 and nothing about Winona.

So on the eve of opening, the airport had not posted updated directions on the page where you would go looking for them. Check it again before you drive. It may have been updated since I wrote this.

My advice: give yourself an extra fifteen minutes and follow the signs on the ground rather than your memory or your map app. Map data takes time to catch up to a changed entrance. Fifteen minutes is cheap compared to missing a flight.

Is the new terminal bigger? Will there be jet bridges?

Bigger building, same number of gates.

The terminal grows from about 232,000 square feet to 355,000 square feet. But it still has 14 gates, the same as the old one. The Airport Authority has been consistent that this is a seismic safety and FAA separation project, not a capacity expansion.

And no, there are still no jet bridges. You will walk outside and up the stairs the way you always have. The new building has a dedicated 45,900 square foot apron built for exactly that.

People either love this about Burbank or they do not. Either way it is not changing.

What about rental cars and the bus?

Rental cars stay at the Regional Intermodal Transportation Center. That part is confirmed.

What I cannot tell you is how you will get between the RITC and the new terminal. The airport's rental car page was last updated in August 2025. Its walking directions describe the old terminal's layout and will not make sense now. One trade outlet reports a shuttle. The airport has not posted anything.

The bus situation is clearer and a little odd. BurbankBus cannot formally serve the new terminal yet. The City Council has an item on its October 27 agenda to amend the transit station access license so it can. That is two weeks after the terminal opens.

If you were planning to take the bus to your flight, check before you count on it.

Does any of this matter if I am not flying?

If you own in Burbank, two pieces do.

Traffic patterns around Hollywood Way are changing. If you live in the north end, or you are showing a house up there, the approach you have used for years may not be the approach anymore. That is worth knowing before an open house, not during one.

The airport corridor is getting more development attention. The City Council has a public hearing set for November 17 on a Final Environmental Impact Report for 2500 North Hollywood Way, which sits right in that corridor. I am not going to characterize that project before I have read the EIR. I am telling you the hearing is calendared.

Beyond that, I would be careful with anyone who tells you a new terminal changes Burbank home values. Same gate count, same flights, same flight paths. A nicer building is a nicer building. It is not a new airport.

Where to check before you go

The airport's parking page at hollywoodburbankairport.com has the rates and the lot closures, and it was current when I checked. The traffic advisory page on the same site was not, so treat it carefully until they update it.

If you are buying or selling near the airport corridor and want to think through what is actually changing versus what just sounds like it is changing, get in touch. I am happy to walk through what is known and what is not.