[DavidSJ]

Sometimes those curfew fines actually cause flights not to depart. Some years ago, I was sitting on the tarmac at John Wayne for about an hour, hoping to make it just under the nighttime curfew, but ultimately the flight was canceled and I had to get a shuttle to LAX and an alternative flight in the morning.

[bombcar]

John Wayne is more forceful than some for sure. I flew a small plane their once and took off just at curfew - the runway lights went off the moment my wheels left the ground.

[sokoloff]

If they turned off before you passed the departure end, I’d raise that as safety concern (ASRS at a minimum, but this is something that I’d probably take straight to the FSDO).

[toast0]

It's been a while, but flying into Long Beach from a connection in Phoenix, the scheduled plane was delayed somewhere, they had boarded us on a replacement and then realized the plane was too loud, so they rushed us to a different plane (in the next terminal) that had the right noise reduction equipment.

Also, my Dad once had a late-ish flight to Long Beach that got diverted to LAX because delays pushed it past the curfew.

[listenallyall]

...and Long Beach's stubbornness about that curfew and other things is a big part of the reason JetBlue packed up and moved all its operations to LAX

https://crankyflier.com/2020/10/08/jetblues-two-decade-run-i...