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Tom Bradley International Terminal B would be rebranded as Tom Bradley Terminal 3. The original Bradley terminal gates would become the E Gates, while the existing and planned midfield West Gates would become the F Gates. Terminals 4, 5, and 6 would retain their current numbers, though their gates would become the G, H, and J Gates, respectively.
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.
A major expansion of the airport came in the early 1980s, ahead of the 1984 Summer Olympic Games. On July 8, 1982, groundbreaking for the new terminals (Terminal 1 and a new International Terminal) were conducted by Mayor Tom Bradley and World War II aviator General James Doolittle.
Airline passengers at Dulles International Airport outside Washington, DC, in Virginia, arrive to snow showers on the busiest travel day of the year November 26, 2014.
Bradley Airport is one of only 68 airports worldwide large enough to accommodate the A380. No carriers provide regular A380 service to Bradley, but the airport occasionally is a diversion airfield for JFK-bound A380s. [23] Northwest Airlines terminated its service to Amsterdam in October 2008 because of the increased cost of jet fuel. [24]
The airport started its conversion into a major passenger airport in 1946, and in 1949 became Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). The current U-shaped terminal area was added in 1961 and expanded several times. LAX is the United States' second busiest airport (as of 2019) following Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport.
LAX is building cores between terminals 5 and 6, at terminals 7 and at terminal B (the Tom Bradley International Terminal) at the cost of $490 million. New cores were also included in larger renovation projects at terminals 1, 2, 3 and 4.
The Airport Tunnel, also known as the Sepulveda Boulevard Tunnel, is a highway tunnel in Los Angeles, carrying Sepulveda Boulevard underneath the two runways (25L/25R) and taxiways on the south side of the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). This section of Sepulveda is a part of California State Route 1.