LOS ANGELES INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT HOSTS ANNUAL JOB SHADOW DAY FOR LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL AND MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS

(Los Angeles, California – February 26, 2015) Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) Community Relations Division hosted its annual Job Shadow Day. This is part of a nation-wide event dedicated to giving young people real-life “job shadowing” experiences. 

“LAX Community Relations coordinates the program to provide job shadowing opportunities in aviation-related and aviation support careers at a major airport,” said Maria Tesoro, director of LAX Community Relations. 

Job shadowing provides students the opportunity to “work” side-by-side with a workplace mentor as they go through a normal day on the job. It provides an up-close look at how the skills learned in the classroom are put into action in the workplace. 

More than 90 students from Westchester Enriched Sciences Magnet High School’s Aviation and Aerospace section, Saint Bernard’s High, Orville Wright Enriched Sciences Magnet and Judge Albert Monroe Middle Schools participated. All of the schools are in the LAX area. Orville Wright and Westchester have aviation and science magnet curriculums. 

This year, students had job shadow experiences in the fields of Accounting, Airfield Operations, Airlines, Aviation Services, Aviation Law Enforcement, Business Administration, Engineering, Environmental Management, Human Resources, Information Technology and Law. 

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 atwww.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. 

As a covered entity under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the City of Los Angeles does not discriminate on the basis of disability and, upon request, will provide reasonable accommodation to ensure equal access to its programs, services, and activities. Alternative formats in large print, braille, audio, and other forms (if possible) will be provided upon request.