LOS ANGELES INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT REPORTS PASSENGER LEVEL UP 6.5 PERCENT DURING FIRST HALF OF 2014
(Los Angeles, California – July 31, 2014) Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) officials reported today that total passengers during the first six months of 2014 rose 6.5 percent to 34,336,315 passengers from 32,217,517 during the same period last year. While there was a 5.6 percent growth in domestic passengers to 25,062,714 from 23,715,708 last year, international traffic grew nine percent to 9,273,601 passengers from 8,501,809 in 2014.
Air cargo tonnage levels stayed about the same with 951,772 during the first six months of this year compared to 950,783 during the same period last year. Air mail tonnage decreased 1.3 percent to 35,613 tons from 36,115 tons in 2013. Freight is slightly up 0.16 percent to 916,159 tons this year from 914,668 tons in 2013.
Airport officials attribute the passenger increase to the economy’s continuing improvement and to additional service on existing international routes by several U.S. and foreign air carriers, including Cathay Pacific to Hong Kong, Transaero and Aeroflot to Moscow, Korean Air to Seoul, and American Airlines to Sao Paulo. In addition, service was introduced by Etihad Airways to Abu Dhabi; SAUDIA to Jeddah-Riyadh; and Norwegian Air to London/Gatwick, Copenhagen, Stockholm, and Oslo.
For the month of June, domestic traffic at LAX rose 5.7 percent to 4,765,839 passengers from 4,507,505 passengers in June 2013. International traffic increased 9.4 percent to 1,758,564 passengers from 1,607,009 passengers in June 2013. According to airport officials, June was the tenth month in a row of increasing passenger volume.
About Los Angeles International Airport (LAX)
LAX is the sixth busiest airport in the world and third in the United States, serving nearly 66.7 million passengers in 2013. 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 64 commercial air carriers. LAX ranks 14th in the world and fifth in the U.S. in air cargo tonnage processed, with over 1.9 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.
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