Los Angeles International Airport

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Los Angeles International Airport
Los Angeles Int'l Airport Logo.svg
Aerial view of the airport
Characteristics
ICAO code KLAX
IATA code LAX
Coordinates

33 ° 56 ′ 33 "  N , 118 ° 24 ′ 29"  W Coordinates: 33 ° 56 ′ 33 "  N , 118 ° 24 ′ 29"  W
Height above MSL 38.27 m (126  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center 20 km southwest of Los Angeles
Street I-105 / I-405 / CA 1
Local transport bus
Basic data
opening 1937
operator Los Angeles World Airports
surface 1386 ha
Terminals 9
Passengers 87,534,384 (2018)
Air freight 2,219,098 t (2018)
Flight
movements 		707,833 (2018)
Employees 50,000
Runways
06R / 24L 3318 m × 46 m concrete
06L / 24R 2721 m × 46 m concrete
07R / 25L 3382 m × 61 m concrete
07L / 25R 3939 m × 46 m concrete

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The Los Angeles International Airport ( IATA : LAX , ICAO : KLAX ) is the largest international commercial airport in the metropolitan area of the Californian metropolis Los Angeles . With 87.5 million passengers in 2018, it is the second largest airport in the United States (after Atlanta ) and the fourth largest in the world . LAX serves as a hub for Alaska Airlines , American Airlines , Delta Air Lines , Southwest Airlines and United Airlines .

Location and transport links

Los Angeles International Airport is located 20 kilometers southwest of Los Angeles City Hall . The California State Route 1 runs east of the passenger terminal . In addition, Interstate 105 runs south of the airport, while Interstate 405 runs approximately one kilometer east of the airport.

history

The famous restaurant ( theme building ) with the tower

An agricultural area on the Pacific Ocean , 25 kilometers from Los Angeles, was declared a new airfield in 1928 with an area of ​​640 acres as Mines Field . The airfield initially consisted of an unpaved runway , which began operations in October 1928. The first buildings in the form of two simple barracks were erected in autumn 1929. On June 7, 1930, the airport was officially inaugurated as Los Angeles Municipal Airport .

The city of Los Angeles bought the airport in 1937 and renamed it Los Angeles Airport in 1941 . On December 5, 1946, the first commercial passenger flight landed at the airport. In 1949 it was renamed Los Angeles International Airport . When the airport was expanded to the east, Sepulveda Boulevard had to be relocated into a tunnel under the runway in 1953 .

The first jet aircraft reached the airport in 1959. In 1970 TWA deployed the first jumbo jet ( Boeing 747 ) between LAX and New York City .

In 1961 an x-shaped building called the Theme Building was erected, which is actually supposed to represent a UFO that has landed on all four arms. The theme building was designed by Paul R. Williams . The Encounter Restaurant is located in the building , from which one has a good view of the entire airport. Before the Encounter Restaurant was established in 1997, Walt Disney Imageneering undertook a complete renovation of the exterior and interior of the building. After the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 , the upper floor of the building was closed for security reasons, but was reopened.

Terminal 1 was completed on January 23, 1984, and Tom Bradley International Terminal opened on June 11, 1984. On July 30, 1992, hangar No. 1 listed on the National Register of Historic Places . The Theme Building was declared a Historic-Cultural Monument by the Los Angeles City Council on December 18, 1992 .

During the 1990s, airport operators were concerned about the steadily growing number of aircraft noise complaints from residents of the airport, particularly from Inglewood and Compton . They drafted plans for modernization, which the newly elected mayor Antonio Villaraigosa was able to clarify at the end of 2005 through a regulated compromise between the two sides. He did not order a basic modernization - as suggested in the plan - but only a partial modernization.

On March 19, 2007, the second Airbus A380 landed on American soil in Los Angeles , about 15 minutes after the first landing at New York's JFK Airport . LAX officials had previously contacted Airbus and requested an additional landing, as LAX was planned to be the first airport for the A380 in the USA.

On August 15, 2007, the City Council of Los Angeles approved a project to expand the Tom Bradley International Terminal to the west, which, for the equivalent of 800 million euros, created capacities for the handling of up to nine Airbus A380s. In addition, the aprons and taxiways were extensively redesigned. In total, the planned modernization program cost 6.4 billion US dollars. Construction work on the new Tom Bradley International Terminal began on February 22, 2010.

In 2014 it was announced that a further US $ 5 billion would be invested in modernizing the airport. As part of this project, the terminal buildings and taxiways are to be improved. The desired effects should be improved passenger satisfaction, reduced waiting times and handling options for the latest types of aircraft. The largest part of the investment volume, however, goes into setting up a people mover. A driverless train is to transport passengers between the terminals and a newly planned transport center. The newly planned transport center is to be connected to local transport and a rental car center.

In the summer of 2013, the South Concourse of the new Tom Bradley International Terminal was completed and put into operation.

In February 2017, the first groundbreaking took place for the northern part of the Midfield Concourse west of the Tom Bradley International Terminal. Construction work on the actual building began in April of that year.

Airport facilities

Passenger terminals

Airport diagram
Main concourse of Tom Bradley International Terminal

Los Angeles International Airport has a total of nine terminals .

Terminal 1

Terminal 1, opened in 1984, has twelve gates and is primarily used for domestic flights by Southwest Airlines .

Terminal 2

Terminal 2 was originally opened in 1962, but completely rebuilt in 1984. It has twelve gates and is mainly used by Delta Air Lines .

Terminal 3

Terminal 3 was originally built for TWA in 1961 and is now mainly home to Delta Air Lines domestic flights. It has 13 gates.

Terminal 4

Terminal 4 was built in 1961, extensively modernized in 2001 and serves as the base for American Airlines . It has 16 gates.

Terminal 5

Terminal 5 has 14 gates and was opened in 1962 and was extensively modernized by 1988. American Airlines and American Eagle mainly operate from here .

Terminal 6

Terminal 6 also has 14 gates and is used by several airlines, including Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air .

Terminal 7

Terminal 7, which has 14 gates, was opened in 1962 and modernized from 1997 to 1999. It serves as the base for United Airlines and United Express .

Terminal 8

Terminal 8 was opened in 1988 to handle smaller regional aircraft. Its eight gates are also used by United Airlines and United Express.

Tom Bradley International Terminal - TBIT

This building, named after the first Afro-American mayor of Los Angeles, Tom Bradley , is located to the west of the other terminals and is primarily used for handling international flights, including those of Lufthansa from Frankfurt and Munich . It has a north and a south wing with nine gates each, a gate at the main hall and several parking positions on the apron. It was built for the 1984 Summer Olympics and rebuilt and modernized by 2013, and in the course of this it was equipped with additional gates and upgraded for the Airbus A380 .

In February 2017, the first groundbreaking took place for the northern part of the Midfield Concourse west of the Tom Bradley International Terminal. Construction work on the actual building began in April of that year. After completion, planned for 2019, the northern part of the Midfield Concourse will have twelve gates and be used for handling international flights.

Regional Terminal

The regional terminal has nine gates and is used exclusively by American Eagle. It can only be reached via shuttle buses in Terminals 4 and 5.

Airlines and Destinations

According to its own information, 692 flights to / from 85 domestic destinations take off and land at Los Angeles Airport every day and a further 928 flights to and from 67 cities in 34 countries every week. LAX Airport is served by 59 passenger airlines. Los Angeles is served daily from German-speaking countries: Lufthansa flies twice a day from Frankfurt in the summer; An Airbus A340-600 has been used on the first daily flight since spring 2018 and the Boeing 747-8I on the second flight . From Munich, Los Angeles is served daily with the Airbus A380 . Swiss flies daily from Zurich with the Boeing 777-300ER. With the 2017 summer flight schedule, Austrian Airlines will be flying non-stop from Vienna with a Boeing 777 up to six times a week.

In addition, individual additional flights are offered in summer.

Los Angeles is served by many airlines with the Airbus A380, currently Qantas Airways fly from Sydney and Melbourne , Singapore Airlines from Singapore via Tokyo-Narita , Air France from Paris (CDG) , Emirates from Dubai , Lufthansa from Munich, British Airways from London -Heathrow , China Southern Airlines from Guangzhou, as well as Korean Air twice daily from Seoul-Incheon and Asiana Airlines also once daily from Seoul-Incheon with A380 to Los Angeles.

Airline market shares

Passenger ranking (2018)
rank airline Passengers proportion of
1 American Airlines 16,452,258 18.80%
2 Delta Air Lines 14,579,763 16.66%
3 United Airlines 12,907,553 14.75%
4th Southwest Airlines 9,982,562 11.40%
5 Alaska Airlines 5,859,301 6.69%
6th Spirit Airlines 2,532,889 2.89%
7th Jetblue Airways 1,768,346 2.02%
8th Air Canada 1,502,816 1.72%
9 Virgin America 1,153,174 1.32%
10 Qantas Airways 1,063,309 1.21%
Other 19,732,413 22.54%
Air freight ranking (2018)
rank airline Air freight ( tons ) proportion of
1 FedEx 349.112 16.47%
2 China Southern Airlines 89.010 4.20%
3 Delta Air Lines 87,977 4.15%
4th American Airlines 87,305 4.12%
5 Cathay Pacific 85,694 4.04%
6th Polar Air Cargo 81,568 3.85%
7th Atlas Air 77,188 3.64%
8th Korean Air 75.008 3.54%
9 ABX Air 69.214 3.27%
10 China Airlines 64,555 3.05%
Other 1,052,955 49.68%
Airmail ranking (2018)
rank airline Airmail ( tons ) proportion of
1 American Airlines 22,409 22.52%
2 Delta Air Lines 21.003 21.11%
3 United Airlines 20,585 20.69%
4th UPS Airlines 7,723 7.76%
5 Kalitta Air 5,337 5.36%
6th Cathay Pacific 3,610 3.63%
7th Alaska Airlines 3,177 3.19%
8th China Airlines 2,235 2.25%
9 Qantas Airways 2.143 2.15%
10 Korean Air 1,637 1.64%
Other 9,654 9.70%

Important goals

Most-used domestic routes from LAX (2018)
space Airport Passengers Airlines
01 San Francisco , CaliforniaUSA CaliforniaCalifornia  1,998,460 Alaska , American , Delta , Southwest , United
02 New York – JFK , New YorkUSA New Yorknew York  1,722,350 Alaska, American, Delta, JetBlue
03 Las Vegas , NevadaUSA NevadaNevada  1,478,870 Alaska, American, Delta, Southwest, Spirit , United
04th Chicago-O'Hare , IllinoisUSA IllinoisIllinois  1,422,420 Alaska, American, Frontier , Spirit, United
05 Seattle / Tacoma , WashingtonUSA WashingtonWashington  1,250,440 Alaska, American, Delta, Spirit, United
06th Denver , ColoradoUSA ColoradoColorado  1,195,110 American, Delta, Frontier, Southwest, Spirit, United
07th Honululu , HawaiiUSA HawaiiHawaii  1,148,400 American, Delta, Hawaiian , Sun Country , United
08th Dallas / Fort Worth , TexasUSA TexasTexas  1,129,330 American, Delta, Spirit, United
09 Atlanta , GeorgiaUSA GeorgiaGeorgia  1,123,490 American, Delta, Frontier, Southwest, Spirit
10 Phoenix – Sky Harbor , ArizonaUSA ArizonaArizona  0.849.620 American, Delta, Southwest, United
Most used international routes from LAX (by passenger volume, 2016)
space Airport Passengers change

the previous year

Airlines
1 United KingdomUnited Kingdom London (Heathrow) 1,520,350   0.2% Air New Zealand , American , British Airways , United , Virgin Atlantic
2 MexicoMexico Mexico City 1,037,600   43% Aeroméxico , Alaska , American , Interjet , United , Volaris
3 Korea SouthSouth Korea Seoul (Incheon) 1,024,826   5.4% Asiana , Korean Air , Singapore Airlines
4th TaiwanRepublic of China (Taiwan) Taipei (Taoyuan) 1,016,686   7.4% China Airlines , EVA Air
5 JapanJapan Tokyo (Narita) 983.933   10.7% ANA , American , Delta , Japan Airlines , Singapore Airlines , United
6th AustraliaAustralia Sydney 936,562   19.3% American , Delta , Qantas , United
7th MexicoMexico Guadalajara 923.918   23.8% Aeroméxico , Alaska , American , Delta , Interjet , Volaris
8th CanadaCanada Vancouver 911,592   1.7% Air Canada , American , Delta , United , WestJet
9 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Shanghai (Pudong) 799,300   55.9% American , China Eastern , Delta , United
10 Hong KongHong Kong Hong Kong 710.462   28.4% American , Cathay Pacific

Traffic figures

Source: Los Angeles World Airports
Source: Los Angeles World Airports
Los Angeles International Airport traffic figures 1994–2018
year Passenger volume Air freight ( tons ) Airmail (tons) Aircraft movements
(with military)
National International total
2018 61,480,817 26,053,567 87,534,384 2,119,585 99,513 707.833
2017 59,614,616 24,944,160 84,558,776 2,068,271 99,424 700,362
2016 58,071,419 22.850.232 80,921,651 1,913,272 90.169 697.138
2015 54.216.230 20,740,075 74.956.305 1,857,186 85,547 655.564
2014 51,556,773 19,106,746 70,663,519 1,744,546 72,463 636.706
2013 48,813,587 17,852,139 66,665,726 1,679,592 70.113 614.917
2012 46.535.207 17,152,914 63,688,121 1,693,855 80.230 605.480
2011 45.130.728 16,731,324 61,862,052 1,623,139 72,976 603.912
2010 43.134.145 15,935,982 59.070.127 1,680,824 67.163 575,835
2009 41,419,913 15.100.930 56,520,843 1,451,418 58.126 544.833
2008 43.137.056 16,683,694 59,820,750 1,563,058 66,683 622.506
2007 - - 62,438,583 1,788,623 60,515 680.954
2006 - - 61,041,066 1,834,951 72,933 656.842
2005 - - 61,489,398 1,858,656 80.169 650.629
2004 - - 60,704,568 1,835,154 83,826 655.097
2003 - - 54,982,838 1,746,224 88.172 622,378
2002 - - 56.223.843 1,696,374 83,844 645.424
2001 - - 61.606.204 1,613,941 147,535 738.433
2000 - - 67,303,182 1,816,741 223,656 783.433
1999 - - 64.279.571 1,709,613 230.148 779.150
1998 - - 61.215.712 1,621,502 239.926 773,569
1997 - - 60.142.588 1,680,548 192,695 781.492
1996 - - 57,974,559 1,539,187 176.076 763.866
1995 - - 53.909.223 1,421,783 175,764 732.639
1994 - - 51.050.275 1,375,806 169,533 689.888

Incidents

Aviation accidents

  • On January 18, 1969 crashed Boeing 727-22C of United Airlines (N7434U) , 20 km west of the starting airport Los Angeles with a complete nightly instrument failure in the Santa Monica Bay . The aircraft had been operated with a defective generator No. 3 for three days, but this was permissible. About 90 seconds after take-off, the fire warning for engine no. 1 sounded, which was then correctly switched off. Shortly thereafter, the remaining No. 2 generator failed and the electrical standby system did not operate. During the instrument failure, the machine crashed into the Pacific . All 38 people on board were killed (see also United Air Lines flight 266 ) .
  • On March 1, 1978, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10 from Continental Airlines (N68045) was just about to take off from Los Angeles Airport when three landing gear tires burst one after the other immediately before reaching the decisive speed. After an aborted take-off, the machine rolled over the end of the runway, causing the left main landing gear to break, two wing tanks being damaged and a fire breaking out. Towards the end of the evacuation of the machine, all of the emergency slides failed one after the other. 31 of the 200 occupants of the machine were injured and two passengers died (see also Continental Airlines flight 603 ) .
  • On August 31, 1986, a Douglas DC-9 from Aeroméxico (XA-JED) collided with a private plane while approaching Los Angeles Airport because a third plane had entered the airspace without notification from the pilot and thus communication with the DC- 9 had bothered; the air traffic controller was no longer able to prevent the collision. All 67 people on board the two machines and 15 people on the ground died (see also Aeroméxico flight 498 ) .
  • On February 1, 1991, an air traffic controller was on the Los Angeles airport at night the pilot of a Boeing 737-300 of USAir (N388US) landing clearance, being due to the view from the tower, a Fairchild Swearingen Metro III of Skywest Airlines (N683AV) , which in Waiting for the middle of the runway, couldn't see. The two planes collided. All 12 occupants of the metro and 22 people on board the Boeing were killed. In addition to the insufficient lighting of the metro, the cause of the accident was primarily human error by the responsible air traffic controller (see also USAir flight 1493 ) .
  • On January 31, 2000 the elevator of a Douglas DC-9-83 of Alaska Airlines blocked during a flight from Puerto Vallarta to San Francisco. The pilots tried to make an emergency landing in Los Angeles, but the jet crashed off Point Mugu in the Pacific. 88 people were killed (see also Alaska Airlines flight 261 ) .

Terrorist incident on July 4, 2002

In a terrorist attack on July 4, 2002, an attacker killed two people and injured two others at the ticket counter of the Israeli airline El Al . The perpetrator, the 41-year-old Egyptian Muslim Brother Hesham Mohamed Hadayet, opened the shooting with 2 pistols at 11:30 a.m. and first killed the El Al employee Victoria Hen behind the counter and then the Israeli tourist Yaakov Aminov. Hadayet had lived in Irvine , California since 2002 and had also had the green card since 2002 .

Gunfight November 1, 2013

On November 1, 2013, at 9:30 am in the Tom Bradley Terminal at Gate 3, a gunman killed a TSA security officer and injured at least three other people. The terminals were closed and evacuated after the shooting. The perpetrator, then 23-year-old Paul Anthony Ciancia, was discovered during the evacuation, shot and transported to a hospital. In November 2016, Ciancia was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder.

Trivia

  • Los Angeles International Airport has merged with the neighboring, much smaller Van Nuys Airport under the name Los Angeles World Airports for marketing purposes .
  • Country singer Susan Raye achieved world fame in 1971 with her song LA International Airport (written by Leanne Scott ) . On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the airfield on August 6, 2003, she returned, who had not performed as a singer since 1986, to perform her song there live. The city ​​of Los Angeles proclaimed "LA International Airport" at the same time as the official LAX airport song, with changed lyrics it is now sung by Shirley Myers and is included in the official LAX video, for example.
  • The track "LAX" on the album Weapons of Mass Destruction by the rapper Xzibit refers to the airport, just like the track "From LAX to O'Hare " from the album Santi by The Academy is… . The 2008 album by rapper The Game is called LAX
  • LAX is the destination of Oceanic Flight 815 in the television series Lost . The first two episodes of the sixth season are originally named after the airport.
  • The hip-hop duo Gang Starr released the track "JFK 2 LAX" on their 1998 album Moment of Truth .
  • The LAX theme building is the theme of a series of future without people .

See also

Web links

Commons : Los Angeles International Airport  - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Los Angeles International Airport ( English ) In: Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . Retrieved August 22, 2016.
  3. ↑ 2018 Airport Traffic Report. PANYNJ.gov , accessed June 17, 2019 .
  4. ^ Network. Newsroom.AlaskaAir.com , March 2019, accessed June 17, 2019 .
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  6. ↑ a b c Delta dreams big in LA in 2017. News.Delta.com , January 31, 2017, accessed June 17, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Airports and terminal maps. United.com , accessed June 17, 2019 .
  8. ↑ FliegerRevue December 2011, pp. 14–17, LAX focuses on expansion
  9. ↑ a b c d LAX History. LAWA.org , accessed June 18, 2019 (English).
  10. ^ Exhibition 1960s on the website of the Paul Revere Williams Project of the AIA .
  11. ↑ ABC article about the A380 in the USA ( Memento from March 22, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ↑ FlugRevue September 2010, pp. 64–68, billions in Los Angeles - the gateway to California
  13. ↑ America's second busiest airport LAX plans $ 5bn expansion - Airline Business. December 24, 2014, archived from the original on December 24, 2014 ; accessed on November 10, 2017 .
  14. ^ LAX had a nightmarish holiday season of delays and grid lock. It's likely a preview of the airport's growing pains . In: Los Angeles Times . December 29, 2016, ISSN  0458-3035 ( latimes.com [accessed November 10, 2017]).
  15. ↑ Flight operations begin in new South Concourse of Tom Bradley International Terminal at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). LAWA.org , September 18, 2013, accessed June 18, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Projects & Reports. LAWA.org , accessed June 18, 2019 (English).
  17. ↑ a b Prep work completed on-time and under budget, construction begins on LAX midfield concourse. LAWA.org , April 13, 2017, accessed June 18, 2019 .
  18. ^ A b One Year After Groundbreaking, Midfield Satellite Concourse Taking Shape. LAWA.org , February 27, 2018, accessed on June 18, 2019 .
  19. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j LAX Terminal Maps. FlyLAX.com, accessed June 17, 2019 .
  20. ↑ Terminal. FlyLAX.com, accessed June 17, 2019 .
  21. ↑ a b LAWA-ITBASD: Welcome to LAX. Retrieved November 10, 2017 .
  22. ^ Austrian Airlines: Network News. In: www.austrian.com. Retrieved October 15, 2016 .
  23. ^ Los Angeles International. Transtats.BTS.gov , accessed June 16, 2019 .
  24. ↑ OST_R | BTS | Transtats. Retrieved November 10, 2017 .
  25. ↑ a b Airport Information - Statistics. LAWA.org , archived from the original on December 21, 2010 ; accessed on June 16, 2019 .
  26. ↑ Accident report B-727-100 N7434U , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on February 4, 2019.
  27. ^ Accident report DC-10-10, N68045 , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on March 25, 2020.
  28. ^ Accident report B-737-300 N388US , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on November 27, 2017.
  29. ↑ accident report Metro III N683AV , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on 27 November 2017th
  30. ↑ FBI, Justice: El Al attack was terrorism , CNN . April 12, 2003. Retrieved December 2, 2008. 
  31. ↑ LAX Assailant Died of Abdominal Gunshot Wound . 
  32. ^ Federal investigators: LA airport shooting a terrorist act . In: CNN , September 5, 2002. Archived from the original on November 7, 2007. Retrieved on April 21, 2010. 
  33. ^ Charles Feldman: Los Angeles airport shooting kills 3 . In: CNN , July 5, 2002. Archived from the original on December 4, 2004. 
  34. ↑ Reuters : Police respond to incident at LA airport; gunman reported shot dated November 1, 2013
  35. ↑ picture ; Los Angeles International Airport shooting on November 1, 2013
  36. ^ New York Daily News : LA airport horror Gunman shot dead after one killed, 3 hurt from November 1, 2013
  37. ↑ Shooting at LAX: TSA agent, alleged gunman wounded , latimes.com from November 1, 2013
  38. ↑ Video, song (MP3) and original texts from the original and new version ( Memento from January 17, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  39. ↑ Official proclamation on the occasion of the 75th anniversary ( Memento from May 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 127 kB)