Welcome to Los Angeles International Airport. It is often referred to by its airport code LAX, with the letters usually pronounced individually. LAX serves as one of our International gateways, but also offers Domestic routes. LAX will also serve our Cargo Delivery Division; which is scheduled to open in Spring 2010.

LAX is the busiest airport in California in terms of flight operations, passenger traffic and air cargo activity, followed by San Francisco International Airport (SFO). LAX is also the only U.S. airport to serve 3 or more international destinations with ridership of 1 million passengers or more per year (Tokyo-Narita, London-Heathrow, Taipei). The airport occupies some 3,500 acres (5 sq mi; 14 km²)^[1] of the city on the Pacific coast, about 15 mi (24 km) southwest of
downtown Los Angeles. LAX is one of the most famous locations for commercial aircraft spotting, most notably at the so called "Imperial Hill" area (also known as Clutter's Park) in El Segundo from which nearly the entire South Complex of the airport can be viewed. Another famous spotting location sits right under the final approach for runways 24 L&R on a small grass lawn next to the Westchester In-N-Out Burger restaurant, and is noted as one of the few remaining locations in Southern California from which spotters may watch such a wide variety of low-flying commercial airliners from directly underneath a flightpath.