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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.
On June 7, 1930, the facility was dedicated and renamed Los Angeles Municipal Airport. [14] Los Angeles Municipal Airport on Army Day, c. 1931. The airport was used by private pilots and flying schools, but the city’s vision was that Los Angeles would become the main passenger hub for the area.
By the early 2000s, airport managers grew concerned about LAX's future as an international gateway. The international terminal was aging, and many carriers had reduced flights to LAX in favor of more modern airports, such as San Francisco and Seattle/Tacoma. By 2007, LAX lost 12% of the seats on its weekly international departures. [43]
Its primary hubs are Seattle–Tacoma International Airport, Portland International Airport, Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport, and Los Angeles International Airport. The airline was founded in 1932 and, during the period of regulation, connected numerous airstrips in Alaska to major cities, and the state of Alaska to Seattle.
The airport is operated by Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA), a branch of the Los Angeles city government, which also operates Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). Van Nuys is one of the busiest general aviation airports in the world, with the airport's two parallel runways averaging over 230,000 takeoffs and landings annually.
SeaTac/Airport station under construction in 2009. The Seattle–Tacoma International Airport was built in 1944 and began commercial service in 1947. [9] During the airport's first major expansion in the 1960s, provisions were made to build facilities for "some form of rapid transit". [10]
KSPN (710 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Los Angeles, California, and serving the Greater Los Angeles Area.Owned by Good Karma Brands, [2] the station airs a sports radio format as the market's ESPN Radio affiliate.
Los Angeles along with Athens (1896, 2004), Paris (1900, 1924) and Tokyo (1964, 2020) are the four cities that have hosted the Summer Olympic Games twice. Los Angeles will host the 2028 Summer Olympics and Paralympic Games and will become the third city to host the Olympics three times, after London (1908, 1948, 2012) and Paris (1900, 1924, 2024).