Los Angeles International Airport
Airport serving Los Angeles
Follow Los Angeles International Airport on Notably News to receive short updates to your email — rarely!
We include updates on Lawnchair Larry flight, Delta Air Lines Flight 89, LAX/Metro Transit Center station, LAX Automated People Mover, JetBlue Flight 292, Theme Building, 2000 millennium attack plots, Ahmed Ressam, LAX Consolidated Rent-A-Car Facility, 2010 California contrail incident, Aviation/LAX station, United Air Lines Flight 266, United States v. Montoya De Hernandez, Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 933, Continental Airlines Flight 603, Ralph P. Cousins ... and more.
| April 2025 |
LAX Consolidated Rent-A-Car Facility
The ConRAC facility was expected to fully open to all rental car companies.
|
| 2025 | LAX Automated People Mover (APM) project is scheduled to begin operation, connecting terminal areas, parking facilities, and transit centers. |
| 2025 | Renovation of Terminal 6 is scheduled to be completed. |
| 2025 | LAX/Metro Transit Center station is scheduled to be completed, connecting to the terminal area by the APM. |
| 2025 | Expansion of the Midfield Satellite Concourse to add 8 gates is scheduled for completion. |
| 2024 |
Los Angeles International Airport in popular culture
Serves as the central location for the action film Carry-On, which follows a fictional TSA officer at LAX who is blackmailed into allowing a nerve agent onto a plane.
|
| 2024 |
Coast Guard Air Station Los Angeles
The unit was administratively incorporated into the newly commissioned Coast Guard Air Station Ventura.
|
| 2024 | LAX Consolidated Rent-A-Car Facility was completed, connected to the terminal area by the LAX Automated People Mover. |
| 2024 | LAX served 76,587,980 passengers, representing a 2.04% increase from the previous year. |
| October 2024 |
LAX Consolidated Rent-A-Car Facility
First rental car companies began operating at the new LAX Consolidated Rent-A-Car Facility (ConRAC), marking the initial phase of the facility's operations.
|
| October 9 2024 |
LAX Consolidated Rent-A-Car Facility
Avis Budget Group became the first rental car company to begin operations at the ConRAC facility.
|
| August 16 2024 |
LAX Automated People Mover
City Council approved an additional $400 million for the project.
|
| July 8 2024 | A United Airlines Boeing 757-200 (registration N14107) experienced a main wheel detachment during initial climb from runway 25R while departing for Denver. The aircraft successfully continued its flight and landed safely with no casualties. |
| June 7 2024 |
LAX Automated People Mover
An arbitrator (Project Neutral) decided that LAWA was responsible for 526 calendar days of project delays, having failed to act in good faith and comply with contract documents.
|
| May 2 2024 |
LAX Automated People Mover
Board of Airport Commissioners authorized an additional $200 million to fund change orders and firm up the project schedule.
|
| April 2024 |
Lawnchair Larry flight
A comedy musical based on Larry Walters's lawnchair flight debuted at The Lowry in Salford, UK.
|
| April 29 2024 |
LAX Automated People Mover
Project test drove the one-car Maintenance Service Vehicle on the guideway between the Maintenance and Storage Facility (MSF), West ITF, and ConRAC.
|
| March 2024 |
LAX Automated People Mover
Terri Mestas, Chief Development Officer, accepted a new position. Three new executive leadership appointments were made: Marla Bleavins as Chief Airport Administrative Officer, Robert Lowe as Chief People and Culture Officer, and Becca Doten as Chief of Staff.
|
| February 2024 |
LAX Automated People Mover
John Ackerman became the new LAWA CEO.
|
| January 2024 | Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) released its busiest domestic routes data for the period January 2024 to December 2024, highlighting key passenger traffic trends. |
| January 2024 | New York–JFK emerged as the top domestic destination from LAX, with 1,397,000 passengers served by American, Delta, and JetBlue airlines. |
| 2023 | Renovations of Terminals 2 and 3 were completed. |
| 2023 | LAX handled 75,050,875 passengers, ranking as the world's eighth-busiest airport according to Airports Council International rankings. |
| 2023 |
LAX Automated People Mover
Original planned opening date, which was subsequently delayed.
|
| 2023 | Beatrice Hsu serves briefly as Executive Director in 2023. |
| 2023 | John Ackerman becomes Executive Director in 2023 and continues to serve at the time of this record. |
| December 2023 | By the end of 2023, the top three airlines at LAX were Delta Air Lines, American Airlines, and United Airlines, collectively representing nearly 50% of the airport's passenger traffic. |
| September 2023 | Ressam was transferred from ADX Florence Supermax prison to USP Florence - High. |
| January 2023 | Delta Air Lines emerged as the top airline at Los Angeles International Airport, capturing 19.76% market share with 14,831,038 passengers during the year. |
| 2022 | Ranked as the fifth-busiest airport in the United States by passenger boardings. |
| 2022 | Maintained its position as the second busiest airport in the United States for international passenger traffic, behind JFK in New York City. |
| 2022 | Terminal 4.5, a building connecting Terminals 4 and 5 to the LAX Automated People Mover, was completed. |
| June 6 2022 |
LAX Consolidated Rent-A-Car Facility
The ready/return building was handed over to car rental company tenants for them to construct their counters, waiting areas, office spaces, and entry/exit booths.
|
| May 2022 |
LAX Automated People Mover
Concrete pouring for the guideway was completed, with a total of 69,700 cubic yards of concrete poured and one million work hours completed.
|
| March 29 2022 |
JetBlue Flight 292
LATAM Flight 4292, an Airbus A320-214, encountered a nose landing gear fault during a flight from Medellín to Cartagena, forcing an emergency return to Medellín with the nose gear jammed horizontally.
|
| 2021 | A new Economy Parking facility with 4,300 stalls was completed, including passenger pick-up/drop-off areas. |
| 2021 | The Midfield Satellite Concourse was completed, adding 15 gates to the West Gates at Tom Bradley International Terminal. |
| 2021 | Terminal 1.5, a junction building connecting Terminals 1 and 2, was completed with a bus gate to the Tom Bradley International Terminal. |
| 2021 |
Los Angeles International Airport
The LAX West Intermodal Transportation Facility opened, providing 4,300 parking spaces and replacing the former Lot C.
|
| December 9 2021 | LAWA celebrated the opening of its new state-of-the-art Airport Police Facility (APF) headquarters, a $216 million aviation police facility which is the largest in the nation. |
| October 19 2021 |
LAX Automated People Mover
West ITF's economy parking structure opened after two years of construction, with temporary shuttle buses transporting passengers between the airport and the facility.
|
| July 12 2021 |
LAX Consolidated Rent-A-Car Facility
The ConRAC facility was topped out, becoming the second-largest concrete building in the United States at the time.
|
| June 21 2021 |
LAX Automated People Mover
Metro commenced construction on the LAX/Metro Transit Center station to connect Metro and other transit services to the East ITF station.
|
| March 6 2021 |
JetBlue Flight 292
Batik Air Flight 6803, an A320-214, experienced a similar landing gear incident, with the gear turning sideways during a flight from Sultan Thaha Airport to Soekarno–Hatta International Airport.
|
| 2020 |
Los Angeles International Airport in popular culture
Used as a filming location in the action film Tenet, with the Tom Bradley International Terminal standing in for Oslo Airport, Gardermoen, featuring an Asiana Airlines A380.
|
| 2020 | Justin Erbacci becomes Executive Director, serving from 2020 to 2023. |
| September 2020 |
LAX Automated People Mover
Concrete pouring for the guideway began.
|
| September 2020 |
LAX Automated People Mover
First large concrete pour for the APM occurred at the West ITF station.
|
| September 2 2020 |
Lawnchair Larry flight
David Blaine completed a high-altitude helium balloon flight with professional preparation, including licenses, oxygen supply, transponder, and remote-controlled ballast. He released himself mid-flight and parachuted down while the ground team safely landed the balloons.
|
| August 19 2020 | FedEx Express Flight 1026, a Boeing 767, made an emergency landing at Los Angeles International Airport when its left main landing gear failed to extend. One of the pilots was injured while exiting the aircraft. |
|
We are only showing the most recent entries for this topic. |
|
This contents of the box above is based on material from the Wikipedia articles History of Los Angeles International Airport, Los Angeles International Airport in popular culture, Los Angeles World Airports, LAX Consolidated Rent-A-Car Facility, LAX Automated People Mover, JetBlue Flight 292, Lawnchair Larry flight, Los Angeles International Airport, Ahmed Ressam & Coast Guard Air Station Los Angeles, which are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.