Often referred to as LAX, which is the IARA airport code, Los Angeles International Airport is the main airport serving Los Angeles and its surroundings in California, USA. It is an extremely busy airport and was recognized as the sixth busiest airport in the world in 2010, and 59 million passengers passed through its doors.
Place and history
It is located in the southwestern part of the city called Westchester, which is located approximately 16 miles from downtown Los Angeles. It covers about 3,500 acres of land, which was founded in 1928, when the city of Los Angeles acquired land, which was then a field of lima beans, barley and wheat, and turned them into dirt strips of dirt, and the first airport structure was built in 1929 year
Originally known as Mines Field, after the realtor who organized the purchase of the fields, the name of the airport was changed in 1941 to Los Angeles International Airport. From that moment, the airport grew to Los Angeles’s main airport, which moved from Burbank Airport and Glendale Central Airport, and in 1961 was built with a stunning view of the airport.
Beginning with the first jet service departing from Los Angeles in 1959 to New York, the airport has become the main center for air travel, as evidenced by the use of the Boeing 747s TWA since 1970 on its route to New York. The terminals were also used as satellite buildings, to which underground tunnels were available from the ticketing area, and in 1981 an expansion of LAX to the tune of $ 700 million was made. USA to prepare for the 1984 Olympic Games, which provided for the construction of two new terminals for the airport, including the complex Tom Bradley terminal.
Brief explanation of LAX terminals
Today, LAX has nine passenger terminals, which are located in the shape of a horseshoe and are served by a shuttle bus.
Terminal One serves mainly regional flights and the busiest terminal offering about 135 departures each day.
The second terminal serves foreign airlines that do not use the Tom Bradley terminal. It was the original international terminal, built in 1962.
Terminal 3 is currently used by airlines, Virgin America, V Australia, JetBlue, Alaska Airlines and AirTran Airways.
Terminal 4 is used exclusively by American Airlines, with the exception of Qantas departures to Brisbane and Auckland. Terminal five is used by Delta Airlines, and terminal 6 is used by Continental and some Delta flights, and now Alaska Airlines is from April 2011.
Terminals 7 and 8 are home to United Airlines.
Terminal Tom Bradley International, which is the latest terminal for the construction of hosts, international airlines that do not use Terminal 2, such as British Airways, Swiss Airlines, Lufthansa and Turkish Airlines and others.
Eventually
Los Angeles International Airport serves more non-connecting passengers than anywhere else in the world, as well as the busiest airport in California and the third busiest airport for passenger traffic only in the United States of America.
