FLYAWAY® BUS TO CEASE SANTA MONICA SERVICE MONDAY NIGHT, SEPTEMBER 5; LOW RIDERSHIP CITED
FlyAway® nonstop bus service between Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) and Santa Monica will cease operation at 11:59 p.m. on Monday, September 5. Airport officials cited low ridership averaging 1.3 passengers per trip at a loss of $36.53 per passenger for ending the service. The service operates 17 hourly trips in each direction at a one-way fare of $8. The FlyAway® stop in Santa Monica is on Second Street, north of Colorado Boulevard, one block from the Santa Monica Pier and near hotels, tourist sites, and entertainment venues.
The Los Angeles Board of Airport Commissioners voted on June 2 to discontinue the Santa Monica service, which started July 2014, due to $1.17 million in losses during its two years in operation.
FlyAway® bus service continues at six sites: Hollywood, Long Beach, Metro Orange Line Woodley Station (San Fernando Valley), Union Station, Van Nuys, and Westwood/UCLA. Information on schedules and fares is available at www.LAXFlyAway.org.
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 742 daily nonstop flights to 101 cities in the U.S. and 1,273 weekly nonstop flights to 76 cities in 41 countries on 64 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 $101.4 billion. LAX handled 655,564 operations (landings and takeoffs) in 2015.
An economic study based on 2014 operations reported LAX generated 620,610 jobs in Southern California with labor income of $37.3 billion and economic output (business revenues) of more than $126.6 billion. This activity added $6.2 billion to local and state revenues and $8.7 billion in federal tax revenues. The study also reported that LAX’s ongoing capital-improvement program creates an additional 121,640 annual jobs with labor income of $7.6 billion and economic output of $20.3 billion, $966 million in state and local taxes, and $1.6 billion in federal tax 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.
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