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January sunrise
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This was supposed to have published a couple of months ago, and clearly it got stuck in the Drafts folder. So, from the better late than never department, a somewhat belated happy 2023!
I was going to start 2023 with another round of construction photos. But for the sake of orientation, I'm including shots of each of the terminals as seen from the control tower, in numerical order. The terminals at LAX are numbered in the order that they are encountered by vehicles entering the airport. Because the control tower is basically in the center of the terminal complex, and as all traffic enters the terminal complex from the east, this results in a series of photos taken in a counter-clockwise direction. These were all taken during the first week of 2023:
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Looking northeast from the control tower: Terminal One. The parking lot just beyond is the current location of taxi and ride share pick up, and the future site of Terminal Zero
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Due north of the tower: Terminal 2
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To the northwest: Terminal 3 and the north end of the TBIT, along with the P2B and P3 parking garages
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Looking west from the control tower is the TBIT: Tom Bradley International Terminal, aka Terminal B. The flat building beyond the TBIT is the MSC, or Midfield Satellite Concourse, aka West Gates at Tom Bradley. The city ramp tower can be seen at the south end (Left, in this photo) of the MSC. The big hangar just south of the MSC is American Airlines maintenance. The future American Eagle terminal will be in the empty ramp area between the hangar and the MSC.
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Southwest: Terminal 4 and the south end of the TBIT
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Terminals 5 and 4
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Terminal 6
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Looking southeast from the control tower: Terminal 7, in the center of the photo, with Terminal 8 behind, and the American Eagle terminal just beyond the palm trees. Planned Terminal 9 will take the place of the current American Eagle terminal as well as the buildings just beyond Terminal 8. The big white hangar just beyond the American Eagle terminal is United Airlines maintenance
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| Looking east from the control tower. In the foreground is the Theme building, currently the location of the LAX USO. Beyond are the P1 and P7 parking garages. |
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| Gratuitous airplane photo: an Emirates A380 follows a Lufthansa B747-8
on Taxiway E, both on their way to Runway 24 Left for departure. In the
foreground, a WestJet B737-700 has just pushed from Terminal 2. The
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Glad to see a post. Was concerned at the extended gap in posts.. it is alway great to see things from a different prospect.
ReplyDeleteSir, another fine entry documenting LAX. Question - before I retired a couple of years ago, the rumor was LAWA had plans to renumber the gates in all of the terminals. Any truth or traction to that alleged plan?
ReplyDeleteSir, another fine entry documenting LAX. Question - before I retired a couple of years ago, the rumor was LAWA had plans to renumber the gates in all of the terminals. Any truth or traction to that alleged plan?
ReplyDeleteAs I understand it, the long-term plan is to renumber all the gates. From what I heard, the revised gate numbers will identify the terminal as well as the individual gate, and there will be an increased use of letters in the gate designations. When this is going to happen, I don't know. I suspect that it may come with the addition of Concourse Zero and Terminal Nine, in which case it's still several years ahead as I write this in mid-2024.
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