American Facilities to Be Razed in LAX Modernization
From staff reports
June 22, 2009
A portion of American Airlines' operations at Los Angeles International Airport will be moved this year so that a modernization project can be completed under a plan approved Monday by the Board of Airport Commissioners.
Los Angeles World Airports - the agency that operates LAX - will demolish several facilities used by American Airlines, including an employee parking lot. The space is needed for the airport's ongoing cross-field taxiway project, which will accommodate super-jumbo jets landing at LAX.
In return, American Airlines will receive four so-called "preferential gates" when the new Bradley West terminal is completed in 2013, along with a new 13.8-acre employee parking lot just west of the airport terminals. Additionally, American Eagle's operations will be transferred in January to a commuter facility formerly operated by United Airlines, located just east of Terminal 8.
LAWA will also give $21 million worth of relocation funds to American Airlines for improvements to the new facilities.