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The airport is located in Burbank, and serves the heavily populated areas of northern Los Angeles County. It is the closest airport to the central and northeastern parts of L.A. (including Hollywood and Downtown Los Angeles), Glendale, Pasadena, the San Fernando Valley, the Santa Clarita Valley, and the western San Gabriel Valley.
The airport has the administrative offices of Los Angeles World Airports. [243] Continental Airlines once had its corporate headquarters on the airport property. At a 1962 press conference in the office of Mayor of Los Angeles Sam Yorty, Continental Airlines announced that it planned to move its headquarters to Los Angeles in July 1963. [244]
Map of LAX showing Terminals 1 through 8, plus the Tom Bradley International Terminal (B) and the Regional Terminal (R) Los Angeles International Airport has 161 gates in nine passenger terminals arranged in the shape of the letter U or a horseshoe. On the landside of the airport, LAX Shuttle route A buses allow passengers to move between all ...
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.
L.A. International Airport; Lawnchair Larry flight; LAX (TV series) LAX City Bus Center; LAX color tunnels; LAX Consolidated Rent-A-Car Facility; LAX West Intermodal Transportation Facility; LAX/Metro Transit Center station; Los Angeles Airport Police; 1974 Los Angeles International Airport bombing; 2002 Los Angeles International Airport shooting
English: Location map of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area — which encompasses Los Angeles County and Orange County in Southern California. Equirectangular projection, N/S stretching 120.0 %. Geographic limits of the map:
An example is 72295 for Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). The first digit specifies the region: 0 to 1 for Europe, 2 to 3 for Russia, 4 for Asia, 5 for the Far East, 6 for Africa, 7 for North America, 8 for South America and Antarctica, and 9 for the Pacific. The remainder of the digits are set at the regional and national level.
The LAX Automated People Mover (APM) will run 2.25 miles (3.62 km) along a line of six stations, [2] with parallel tracks forming a pinched loop. The APM will serve three stations in the central terminal area (CTA) each with footbridges with moving walkways to nearby terminals.