APRIL ISSUE OF LAX CONNECTION E-NEWSLETTER NOW AVAILABLE
(L os Angeles, California – April 30, 2015) The April issue of LAX ConnectionE-newsletter is now available online at http://www.lawa.org/LAWANewsletters.aspxThe newsletter provides information the public and travel-tourism industry about Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) passenger services and air service developments.
This issue features news on Los Angeles World Airports launching the “Flight Experience Program” for families with Autism; Virgin Atlantic opening the first-ever Clubhouse at LAX at Terminal 2; LAX winning at the 2015 Airports council International –North America Excellence in Airport Concessions Awards; new Tom Bradley International Terminal awarded LEED Gold certification by the U.S. Green Building Council; new energy efficient Central Utility Plant adding better terminal climate control; Aeromexico now operating the Boeing 787 Dreamliner on LAX–Mexico City flights; Volaris launching LAX–Leon Guanajuato, Mexico flights June 8; Ethiopian Airlines inaugurating nonstop LAX – Dublin – Ethiopia service onboard the Boeing 787 Dreamliner June 20.
About Los Angeles International Airport (LAX)
LAX is the fifth busiest airport in the world and second in the United States. LAX served nearly 70.7 million passengers in 2014. LAX offers 692 daily nonstop flights to 85 cities in the U.S. and 928 weekly nonstop flights to 67 cities in 34 countries on 59 commercial air carriers. LAX ranks 14th in the world and fifth in the U.S. in air cargo tonnage processed, with over two million tons of air cargo valued at over $91.6 billion. An economic study in 2011 reported that operations at LAX generated 294,400 jobs in Los Angeles County with labor income of $13.6 billion and economic output of more than $39.7 billion. This activity added $2.5 billion to local and state revenues. LAX is part of a system of three Southern California airports – along with LA/Ontario International and Van Nuys general aviation – that are owned and operated by Los Angeles World Airports, a proprietary department of the City of Los Angeles that receives no funding from the City’s general fund.
For more information about LAX, please visit www.lawa.aero/lax or follow on Twitter @flyLAXAirport , on Facebook at www.facebook.com/LAInternationalAirport , and on YouTube at www.YouTube.com/laxairport1 . Information about LAX’s ongoing multi-billion-dollar LAX Modernization Program as well as tips and shortcuts to help navigate LAX during construction are available at www.LAXisHappening.com.
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