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The following is a list of airports in Greater Los Angeles, the second-largest urban region area in the United States, encompassing the five counties in Southern California that surround the city of Los Angeles. The region is served by five airports with commercial air service, which combined, served 114 million passengers in 2019.
Los Angeles opened its main airport on October 1, 1928. At the time of the opening, it was known as Mines Field and was little more than a dirt airstrip with no facilities. The first building, the historic Hangar No. 1, was erected in 1929. In 1930, the facility was renamed Los Angeles Municipal Airport, and mostly served general aviation.
[15] [14] The airport was renamed Los Angeles International Airport in 1949. [17] The temporary terminals remained in place for 15 years but quickly became inadequate, especially as air travel entered the "jet age" and other cities invested in modern facilities. Airport leaders once again convinced voters to back a $59 million bond on June 5, 1956.
^1 Clocks on Lord Howe Island are advanced only 30 minutes for Daylight Saving Time. ^2 Airport is located in Saxony. ^3 LON is common IATA code for Heathrow Airport (IATA: LHR), Gatwick Airport (IATA: LGW), Luton Airport (IATA: LTN), London Stansted Airport (IATA: STN), London City Airport (IATA: LCY), London Southend Airport (IATA: SEN) and London Biggin Hill Airport (IATA: BQH).
In April 2011, Alaska Airlines agreed to a deal with Los Angeles World Airports to renovate Terminal 6 and build an Alaska Lounge for first-class passengers. The airline moved its flights to Terminal 6 on March 20, 2012, and Spirit Airlines was relocated to Terminal 3. [39]
John Wayne Airport (IATA: SNA [4], ICAO: KSNA, FAA LID: SNA) [5] is an international commercial and general aviation airport that serves Orange County and the Greater Los Angeles area, in the U.S. state of California. The airport is located in an unincorporated area of Orange County, [6] and it is owned and operated
The airport then got its fifth name: Burbank–Glendale–Pasadena Airport (1978–2003). On November 6, 2003, the airport authority voted to change the name to Bob Hope Airport in honor of comedian Bob Hope, a longtime resident of nearby Toluca Lake, who had died earlier that year and who had kept his personal airplane at the airfield. [21]
A baggage tag for a flight heading to Oral Ak Zhol Airport, whose IATA airport code is "URA". An IATA airport code, also known as an IATA location identifier, IATA station code, or simply a location identifier, is a three-letter geocode designating many airports and metropolitan areas around the world, defined by the International Air Transport Association (IATA). [1]