MARCH ISSUE OF LAX CONNECTION E-NEWSLETTER NOW AVAILABLE
(L os Angeles, California – March 31, 2017) The March issue of LAX Connection E-newsletter is now available online a. The newsletter provides information to the public and the travel-tourism industry about Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) passenger services and air service developments.
This issue features news on LAX Flyaway bus stop in Hollywood relocating due to construction; smoking area now open beyond TSA screening in Tom Bradley International Terminal (TBIT); construction breaking ground for new Midfield Satellite Concourse; opening of Shake Shack in Terminal 3 in the Fall; Reilly’s Irish Pub landing in Terminal 1; Delta and 22 other airlines relocating terminals in May; electric-vehicle charging stations now available in parking structure 7; LAX named in “Skytrax Top 10 Most Improved World Airports”; Hainan Airlines beginning new nonstop routes to Chengdu and Chongqing, China; Avianca Airlines increasing LAX–Bogota, Colombia flights ; LOT Polish Airlines inaugurating at LAX with nonstop service to Warsaw, Poland April 3; Austrian Airlines launching at LAX with nonstop service to Vienna April 10; Level airlines launching Barcelona–LAX service in June; Air China announcing new service from Shenzhen–LAX July 6; Garuda Indonesia debuting with LAX–Jakarta service in November.
About Los Angeles International Airport (LAX)
LAX is the fourth busiest airport in the world, second in the United States, and was named Skytrax’ 2017 Top 10 Most Improved Airports. LAX served more than 80.9 million passengers in 2016. LAX offers 742 daily nonstop flights to 101 cities in the U.S. and 1,280 weekly nonstop flights to 77 cities in 42 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 2.2 million tons of air cargo valued at over $101.4 billion. LAX handled 697,138 operations (landings and takeoffs) in 2016.
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 two Southern California airports – along with 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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Program, as well as tips and shortcuts to help navigate LAX during construction, are available
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