Travelers are posting worries about Burbank's new terminal. The airport says 14 gates, October 2026.
The Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority's own project updates, most recently dated February 17, 2026, put the 355,000-square-foot replacement terminal at a $1.11 billion guaranteed maximum price.
Fourteen gates in a 355,000-square-foot building are scheduled to open at Hollywood Burbank Airport in October 2026. The date and the numbers come from the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority's own posted project updates, the most recent of them dated February 17, 2026, published on the airport's Elevate BUR project site. Nothing in the updates available here describes the parking supply or the curbside arrangement a passenger will find on opening day.
That matters to anyone booking a fall 2026 flight out of Burbank, and to anyone who drives someone there. The airport intends to move passengers out of the existing terminal and into a new building, and the month it has published for that move has not changed.
The question being asked
The assignment arrived as a link to a thread on the r/LosAngeles forum whose web address reads "guys im concerned about the new burbank airport." The page returned an HTTP 403 error when it was fetched for this story. Its text is therefore not reported here, and nothing posted in it is treated as fact. What follows is the documentary answer to the question the title asks.
What the Authority has published
The Airport Authority board unanimously approved a guaranteed maximum price of $1.11 billion for the design and construction of the replacement passenger terminal on May 6, 2024, according to the Authority's release that day. The same release said the building would have 14 gates and would resolve what the Authority called long-standing safety and accessibility issues at the current terminal. That is the Authority's characterization of its own project.
Voters approved the replacement terminal in 2016, per the same source. The Authority named October 2026 in May 2024. It named October 2026 again in February 2026, in an update written off that day's Authority meeting, which said flatly: "The new passenger terminal is scheduled to open in October 2026."
On the financing, the Authority closed on $724.78 million of 2024 Series A, B and C Airport Senior Revenue Bonds to fund the majority of the program, in a release dated May 30, 2024. The true interest cost was 4.54%. Total net debt service on that issue is $1.32 billion, and the Authority said a second bond issue was anticipated in 2026 to complete the funding.
Design and construction are being carried out by a Holder/Pankow/TEC joint venture, with Corgan and CannonDesign as designers and Jacobs as program manager, according to the same project updates.
What is not established here
No board agenda packet, staff report or set of minutes was readable for this story. The Authority's current agenda and meeting-documents pages render through scripts and returned no text when pulled. The October 2026 date reported above is the Authority's published date in its own releases. It is not a line traced to a dated board packet. The difference is worth keeping in mind. A construction schedule that has held in print for nearly two years is still a schedule.
The fetched updates also leave several things unsettled that a passenger would want answered:
- how gates are assigned among airlines;
- how many parking spaces will be open on the first day;
- how the curb loop will work during the changeover;
- the airport's recent passenger counts.
Those answers live in board documents that were not available here.
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