Flights from Los Angeles

Airport Los Angeles International Airport, CA LAX

Los Angeles International Airport is an important airport in the US state of California. According to the number of flights per year, passenger number and freight transport, LA International airport counts as one of the top ten airports in the world.

Besides Los Angeles International, there are two further airports in the Los Angeles Area, these are : LA/Ontario Int. Airport in San Bernadino County and Van Nuys Airport in San Fernando Valley Los Angeles Area. Van Nuys Airport is currently not being used for commercial flights. The "FlyAway" shuttle transfers passengers between these 3 airports. The most popular route from the airport is the flight from LA to London, flights from LA to Tokyo are also very popular. Top domestic routes inlcude LA-San Fransisco and Los Angeles to New York.

• URL: Official website
• Parking: Yes, more than 21100 short and long term parking spaces.
• Nearby cities: Inglewood (5 km), Torrance (13 km), Los Angeles (19 km), East Los Angeles (24 km), Downey (25 km), Glendale (26 km), Burbank (28 km), Long Beach (28 km), North Glendale (28 km), Norwalk (30 km)
• Directions by car: Interstate I-405 (Exit 47+48); Interstate I-105 and State Route #1 (Highway #1)
• Stations: The Amtrak routes "Coast Starlight"; "Pacific Surfliner"; "Southwest Chief"; "Sunset Limited" and "Texas Eagle" regularly serve L.A. Union Station

Location

Officially opened in 1937, the airport is about 25 km or 18 miles southwest of downtown Los Angeles. The airport may be reached on the Interstate I-405 using exits 47 and 48 (San Diego Freeway), via Interstate I-105 (Glenn Anderson Freeway) or California State Route #1 (Highway 1).

In the transfer area all area signs for taxis are yellow, those for rental cars are purple and for the shuttle buses within Los Angeles, blue. Those areas where shuttle buses stop which are going further afield, for example to Santa Barbara, are signposted green, for vans and limousines, they are orange and hotel buses, red.

All free shuttle buses are labelled with letters. The A bus shuttles connect the terminals. C bus shuttles go to the parking area C, G bus shuttles take passengers to the Green Line Metro Station. In order to go to downtown L.A . take the Green Line to Imperial/Wilmington Station (LACMTA Station) and then change for the Blue Line.

Several local buses stop at LAX. For example bus number 3 to Santa Monica, 6 to Westwood, 8 to Torrance, 42 to Wilmington, 111 to Norwalk Station, 117 to Lakewood Station, 232 to Long Beach, 439 to Downtown, 625 to Jefferson or 715 to Downey all service the airport.

The "FlyAway" Shuttlebus operates a regular service between L.A. International and Ontario airport 80 km or 50 miles further east in San Bernadino County. FlyAway also takes passengers to Irvine Amtrak Station about 80 km or 50 miles further east, to the district of Westwood about 20 km or 14 miles north, and to Union Station (AMTRAK) in downtown LA.

Southern California Gray Line also provides several daily bus services going for example to the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, an airport bus to Bakersfield, the "Antelope Express" to Acton, Lancaster and Palmdale (Antelope Valley), "SB-Airbus" to Carpinteria, Goleta and Santa Barbara or the "Ventura County Airporter" to Ventura. All current departure times are available locally or on the internet. Alternatively, please take a taxi for the onward journey.