Los Angeles World Airports
Airport authority based in Los Angeles
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| 2025 | Renovation of Terminal 6 is scheduled to be completed. |
| 2025 | LAX Automated People Mover (APM) project is scheduled to begin operation, connecting terminal areas, parking facilities, and transit centers. |
| 2025 | Expansion of the Midfield Satellite Concourse to add 8 gates is scheduled for completion. |
| 2025 | LAX/Metro Transit Center station is scheduled to be completed, connecting to the terminal area by the APM. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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 | LAX handled 75,050,875 passengers, ranking as the world's eighth-busiest airport according to Airports Council International rankings. |
| 2023 | Renovations of Terminals 2 and 3 were completed. |
| 2023 | John Ackerman becomes Executive Director in 2023 and continues to serve at the time of this record. |
| 2023 | Beatrice Hsu serves briefly as Executive Director in 2023. |
| 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. |
| 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 | Terminal 4.5, a building connecting Terminals 4 and 5 to the LAX Automated People Mover, was completed. |
| 2022 | Maintained its position as the second busiest airport in the United States for international passenger traffic, behind JFK in New York City. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 2020 | Justin Erbacci becomes Executive Director, serving from 2020 to 2023. |
| 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. |
| 2019 | Renovations of Terminals 7 and 8 were completed. |
| November 21 2019 | Philippine Airlines Flight 113 (Boeing 777-300ER) suffered an engine compressor stall shortly after takeoff from Runway 25R, forcing an emergency return and landing. The flight had 342 passengers and 18 crew, with no injuries reported. |
| 2018 | Los Angeles International Airport served over 87 million passengers and 2 million tons of freight and mail, becoming the world's eighth-busiest airport by passenger traffic and eleventh-busiest by cargo traffic. |
| 2018 | The Bob Hope USO expanded and relocated to the first floor of the Theme Building. |
| 2018 | Renovation of Terminal 1 was completed, part of LAX's modernization efforts. |
| July 25 2018 | Jetblast from a Dash 8 caused some dollies to crash into a United 737. |
| 2017 | The airport recorded 700,362 aircraft movements (landings and takeoffs), making it the third busiest airport in the world by this metric. |
| May 20 2017 | Aeroméxico Flight 642, a Boeing 737-800, collided with a utility truck on a taxiway near Runway 25R, resulting in injuries to 8 people, two of them serious. |
| November 1 2016 | LAWA transferred operational management of Ontario International Airport to the Ontario International Airport Authority (OIAA). |
| August 28 2016 | A false report of shots fired throughout the airport caused a temporary lockdown and approximately 3 hours of flight delays. |
| 2015 | Deborah A. Flint takes over as Executive Director, leading LAWA from 2015 to 2020. |
| December 2015 | LAWA sold its interest in Ontario International Airport to the newly formed Ontario International Airport Authority (OIAA) for US$190 million. |
| December 2013 | LAWA transferred its lease with the United States Air Force to the City of Palmdale. |
| November 1 2013 | A lone gunman entered Terminal 3 at around 9:31 a.m. PDT and opened fire with a semi-automatic rifle, killing a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officer and wounding three other people. The airport was partially evacuated, with all inbound flights diverted and outbound flights grounded until around 2:30 p.m. |
| October 18 2013 | A 41-year-old airport employee was arrested in connection with the second dry ice bomb explosion and booked on suspicion of possessing a destructive device near an aircraft. |
| October 15 2013 | A 28-year-old airport employee was arrested in connection with the first dry ice bomb explosion and booked on charges of possession of an explosive or destructive device near an aircraft. |
| October 14 2013 | Second dry ice bomb explosion occurred at 8:30 p.m. on the ramp area near the Tom Bradley International Terminal, with no injuries. Two additional plastic bottles containing dry ice were found at the scene. |
| October 13 2013 | First dry ice bomb explosion occurred at 7:00 p.m. in an employee restroom in Terminal 2, causing a brief shutdown of the terminal with no injuries. |
| April 2013 | The city of Ontario filed a legal complaint against LAWA, alleging mismanagement of Ontario Airport, which they claimed resulted in a 40% decline of airport traffic between 2007 and 2013. |
| 2010 | Completed a $737 million renovation of LAX's Tom Bradley International Terminal, which was ultimately estimated to cost $2 billion. Received the LAX Coastal Area Chamber of Commerce Sustainability Award for this project. |
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