LATEST EDITION OF LAX CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS PROGRAM E-NEWSLETTER NOW AVAILABLE

03/22/2016 12:00 AM

LATEST EDITION OF LAX CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS PROGRAM E-NEWSLETTER NOW AVAILABLE

(Los Angeles, California – March 21, 2016) The latest issue of the LAX Capital Improvements Program E-Newsletter is now available online at the Los Angeles International Airport web site at: http://www.lawa.org/laxdev/Newsletter.aspx. This issue of the quarterly newsletter covers activities from Winter 2016, and features these articles: • Nearly 1,200 People Attend Forum on $5 Billion LAX Landside Access Modernization Plan • Amenities, Navigating Traffic Focus of Campaign • LAWA Unveils New Customer Journey at LAX Terminal 2 • FlyAway® Bus Service adds Long Beach Route • Latest Concept of Gourmet Street Truck Rolls Out • Length of LAX Runway Temporarily Shortened About Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) LAX is the seventh busiest airport in the world and third in the United States. LAX served more than 74.9 million passengers in 2015. 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 more than 2.1 million tons of air cargo valued at over $86.9 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. 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.


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