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Los Angeles International Airport in a nutshell
Los Angeles Airport is one of the largest in the world with a diverse range of destinations around the globe. It is one of the few airports in the world with routes to every inhabited continent.
Most of the world's major airlines fly into Los Angeles, with Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, United, Delta and Southwest Airlines all having bases there.
In the USA, the name 'LAX' is widely used in official and unofficial communications for Los Angeles Airport, based on the IATA code assigned to the airport.
LAX has long held the record for the number of passengers starting or ending their journey here. In fact, compared to other similarly sized airports, Los Angeles has a relatively low number of connecting passengers.
There are two other major airports in the conurbation around Los Angeles that are included in the same area as SFO in flight search engines. If you're buying tickets to San Francisco, always check which airport you're flying into.
- Burbank BUR
- Long Beach LGB
- Orange County SNA
- Ontario ONT
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Lukas888
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There’s a really excellent Star Alliance lounge at LAX – if you can, don’t miss it. Excellent food, a wide selection, plenty of space – brilliant. A great selection of alcohol too; this time we couldn’t quite resist and had a little taster. Vegetables, fruit, cold and hot dishes, alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks, etc. – everything was brilliant. I don’t think anyone cares or has any way of keeping track of how long you’re there (we arrived less than three hours before departure, so I don’t know if they’d have stopped us had we arrived earlier – I doubt it).
Otherwise, the airport staff were very strict at check-in (LOT to WAW), with an almost extremely strict ‘American-style’ queuing system, taking photos of passengers one by one as they entered the boarding tunnel, very unpleasant staff even towards people in Business Class (they don’t care how people travel or how much they’ve paid, or that Business Class should have certain perks – sure, there’s a separate queue for Business Class, but they made some passengers suffer for it all the more....)
Immigration at LAX – the hall was completely deserted around 8 pm; it was absolutely quiet. We were second in the queue, which meant the interview was all the more thorough. It wasn’t exactly fun, but it was fair. The officer had time on his hands, so he wanted to see our documents and check all sorts of things. Even so, compared to the expected 1½–2 hours’ queue, it was a massive time-saver. He asked straight away about fruit, veg and meat in our luggage, and after that there was no further food inspection (I think there’s a red and green lane and there’s a risk of a spot check). I didn’t really notice any automatic immigration system there; I suppose it’s already in place somewhere for the EU. Here it was the usual booth: an officer, questions, documents, car and hotel bookings, a question about cash carried, credit card limits, and a few routine questions about work, the company, clients, etc. It was fine for me – if you’re travelling and don’t lie, everything’s OK.