LOS ANGELES INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT AWARDED BEST FOOD AND BEVERAGE PROGRAM FOR TOM BRADLEY INTERNATIONAL TERMINAL AT 2015 ACI-NA EXCELLENCE IN AIRPORT CONCESSIONS AWARDS

Airport receives four awards overall highlighting dining offerings for travelers

            (Los Angeles, California – April 23, 2015)  Airports Council International-North America (ACI-NA) awarded Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) Best Food and Beverage Program for the new Tom Bradley International Terminal (TBIT) for Large Airport, including three additional awards at the 2015 ACI-NA Excellence in Airport Concessions Awards. 

            “ACI-NA’s Airport Concessions Awards highlights the innovation and leadership demonstrated across the airport concessions industry, and we’re delighted to showcase the best products and services available to air travelers throughout North America,” said ACI-NA President and CEO Kevin M. Burke.

            “The goal with all of our new concessions has been to focus on putting “the L.A. back into LAX” by replicating the very best of LA’s diverse cuisine, culture and lifestyle in the retail and food and beverage offerings for our guests,” said Los Angeles World Airports Executive Director Gina Marie Lindsey.

This year’s Awards received more than 300 nominations from airports of all sizes throughout the U.S. and Canada. LAX was awarded in the following categories:

            Best Food and Beverage Program – Large Airport:

·         First Place: Tom Bradley International Terminal

Best New Food and Beverage (Quick-Service Concept): 

·         First Place: Farmers Market (Terminal 5)

·         Second Place: Real Food Daily (Terminal 4)

            Best Innovative Consumer Experience Concept or Practice:

·         First Place: Tasting Bar by DFS Group

            Dining concessions in new TBIT’s Great Hall offer travelers from around the world a premier dining collection curated by Westfield and the DFS Group. Currently under construction, Westfield will debut a new experience comprised of 17 new dining and retail destinations, cutting-edge design, and amenities in TBIT’s departures and arrivals areas in 2015.

            Westfield and partners are also transforming the traveler experience at Terminals 1, 2, 3, and 6 with a sophisticated dining collection currently under construction and opening in phases this year.

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.

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