The Tom Bradley International Termional at Los Angeles International Airport is pretty swank and awfully big.
But it’s not big enough. So LAX is buildling a bonus Midfield Satellite Concourse (MSC) with 12 extra gates just west of the terminal.
Scheduled to open in early 2020, the new terminal – or MSC – will be connected to the Tom Bradley International Terminal by both a 1,000-foot passenger tunnel with moving walkway and a bus port to allow transportation on the airfield from other terminals.
Airports around the world will join thousands of iconic landmarks, buildings, attractions, hotels and homes in turning off (non-essential) lights on Saturday, March 25 in honor of International Earth Hour.
The event began in 2007 with a single lights-off event in Australia and is now observed in 178 countries and territories – including the International Space Station – with more than 12,700 monuments turning off their lights for one hour in 2016.
Los Angeles International Airport’s (LAX) signature 100-foot-tall Gateway pylons (above ) will glow green – and then go dark between 8:30 and 9:30 p.m.
Courtesy Denver Int’l Airport
Denver International Airport (DEN) will be turning off the lights on the iconic “32-foot-tall Mustang” statue and the “Shadow Array” artwork at the Hotel and Transit Center. Shadow Array is made up of 236 beetle-kill spruce logs that are usually illuminated at night.
Here’s a link to an Earth Hour map of other places going dark around the world for an hour on March 25. Check to see if the lights will be going out where you are at 8:30 local time.
Today is the birthday of Theodor Geisel – better known to most of us as Dr. Seuss – the author and illustrator of books such as “The Cat in the Hat,” “Green Eggs and Ham” and “Horton Hears a Who!”
To mark the day, airport police officers at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) will hold a “Dr. Seuss Hour” from 10 to 11 a.m. as part of Read Across America Day.
During that hour, officers will read books to kids and adults and the Cat in the Hat will pose for photos with travelers. The LAX PUPs (Pets Unstressing Passengers) and their handlers will be on hand as well.
Kids who attend the Dr. Seuss Hour will get souvenir travel bags with copies of Dr. Seuss’s book, LAX activity coloring books, and “Cat in the Hat Read Every Day” bookmarks.
And don forget:
“You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself any direction you choose.”
― Dr. Seuss, Oh, The Places You’ll Go!
Ground has been broken phase one of the new Midfield Satellite Concourse (MSC) at Los Angeles International Airport.
When completed, sometime in late 2019, the $1.6-billion, five-level facility and an associated new baggage system will add 12 new gates, more amenities and greater flexibility for parking aircraft.
Designed as an extension of the Tom Bradley International Terminal (TBIT), the new 750,000-square-foot concourse will be located west of TBIT (the Tom Bradley International Terminal) and connected by a 1,000-foot-long underground pedestrian tunnel with moving walkways. Buses will also be used to transport passengers between the concourse and other terminals.
Two of the new gates will accommodate the larger Airbus 380 and Boeing 747-8 jets, with the remaining 10 gates accommodating Boeing 777s and 787s, and the Airbus 330s and 350s.
Among a wide range of other new features, the new midfield terminal will be ‘smart’.
According to LAX, flight information displays will include scanners that allow passengers to receive personalized maps on their boarding passes. Beacon technology will also be in place and will work with a new LAX app on smartphones to help passengers find their way around the concourse and find the concessions and amenities they are interested in – and to help LAX track how passengers use the concourse features.
And, looking forward, LAX says the concourse is being built with future technology enhancements in mind, including automated boarding gates that make use of biometrics, such as facial geometry, fingerprints or iris scanning for identification.
*All images courtesy Corgan in association with Gensler.
The 59th Annual GRAMMY Awards take place on Sunday night, February 12 in Los Angeles, but Los Angeles International Airport is already setting the scene with giant images of recording stars wrapped around the columns on the lower level of the horseshoe-shaped roadway in front of the terminals.
The project is a partnership with The Recording Academy and its annual GRAMMY Awards, are themed Believe in Music, and feature five different eight-foot-high celebrity images.
See if you recognize them all:
(David Bowie, Chance the Rapper, James Corden, Miranda Lambert and Sia)
