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Los Angeles International Airport

Los Angeles International Airport[a] (IATA: LAX, ICAO: KLAX, FAA LID: LAX) is the primary international airport serving Los Angeles and its surrounding metropolitan area in California, United States. LAX is located in the Westchester neighborhood of the city of Los Angeles, 18 miles (29 km; 16 nmi) southwest of Downtown Los Angeles, with the commercial and residential areas of Westchester to the north, the city of El Segundo to the south and the city of Inglewood to the east. LAX is the closest airport to the Westside and the South Bay.

For other uses, see LAX (disambiguation) or Los Angeles Airport (disambiguation).

Los Angeles International Airport

Public

October 1, 1928 (1928-10-01)

128 ft / 39 m

75,050,851[4]

75,050,851[4]

575,097

US$14.9 billion[5]

133,900 employed[5]

The airport is operated by Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA), a branch of the Los Angeles city government, that also operates the Van Nuys Airport for general aviation. The airport covers 3,500 acres (1,400 ha) of land and has four parallel runways.[6][9]


In 2022, LAX handled 65,924,298 passengers, making it the world's sixth-busiest airport. It was still in the top ten busiest airports in 2023, according to the Airports Council International rankings.[10] As the largest and busiest international airport on the West Coast of the United States, LAX is a major international gateway for the country, serving as a connection point for passengers travelling internationally (such as East and Southeast Asia, Australasia, Mexico and Central America). The airport holds the record for the world's busiest origin and destination airport,[11] because relative to other airports, many more travellers begin or end their trips in Los Angeles than use it as a connection. In 2019, LAWA reported approximately 88 percent of travellers at LAX were origination and destination passengers, and 12 percent were connecting.[12] It is also the only airport to rank among the top five U.S. airports for both passenger and cargo traffic.[13] LAX serves as a hub, focus city or operating base for more passenger airlines than any other airport in the United States.


Although LAX is the busiest airport in the Greater Los Angeles Area, several other airports serve the region including Burbank, John Wayne (Orange County), Long Beach, Ontario, and San Bernardino.

Renovations of Terminals 7 and 8 completed in 2019, Terminal 1 in 2018,[45] and Terminals 2 and 3 in 2023.[46][47]

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Terminal 1.5, a building connecting Terminals 1 and 2, with a bus gate to take passengers to boarding gates in the Tom Bradley International Terminal (completed 2021)

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The Midfield Satellite Concourse (aka West Gates at Tom Bradley International Terminal) adding 15 gates (completed 2021)

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The , a 4,300-stall parking structure with passenger pick-up/drop-off areas, to later be connected to the terminal area by the APM (completed 2021)[50]

Economy Parking facility

A new headquarters, replacing a smaller facility located where Concourse 0 is planned to be built (completed 2021)[51]

Los Angeles Airport Police

On January 23, 1939, the sole prototype twin-engine attack bomber, designed and built as a company project, suffered a loss of the vertical fin and rudder during a demonstration flight over Mines Field, flat spun into the parking lot of North American Aviation, and burned. Another source states that the test pilot, in an attempt to impress the Gallic passenger, attempted a snap roll at low altitude with one engine feathered, resulting in a fatal spin.[240] Douglas test pilot Johnny Cable bailed out at 300 feet, his chute unfurled but did not have time to deploy, he was killed on impact, the flight engineer John Parks rode in the airframe and died, but 33-year-old French Air Force Capt. Paul Chemidlin, riding in the aft fuselage near the top turret, survived with a broken leg, severe back injuries, and a slight concussion. The presence of Chemidlin, a representative of a foreign purchasing mission, caused a furor in Congress by isolationists over neutrality and export laws. The type was developed as the Douglas DB-7.[241]

Douglas 7B

California World War II Army Airfields

List of airports in the Los Angeles area

Metro

Los Angeles Airport Police

Peirson Mitchell Hall

Bullock, Freddy. LAX: Los Angeles International Airport (1998)

Schoneberger, William A., Ethel Pattison, and Lee Nichols. Los Angeles International Airport (Arcadia Publishing, 2009.)

Los Angeles International Airport official website

LAneXt website

LAX Noise Management Internet Flight Tracking System

 (PDF), effective April 18, 2024

FAA Airport Diagram

Los Angeles International Airport travel guide from Wikivoyage

airport information for KLAX