“We previously expected 110 million passengers in 2028. We now expect slightly more than 90 million,” Los Angeles World Airports Chief Executive John Ackerman said. “While our traffic’s improving, it’s not improving at the rate that we need it to be successful. So we simply don’t need additional capacity at this point. We don’t need additional terminals — we need to fix our core infrastructure.”

Passenger counts have steadily gone up at LAX but still haven’t reached prepandemic levels. More than 75 million passengers traveled through LAX in 2023. By comparison, the airport saw more than 88 million passengers in 2019.
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Among the scrapped goals is a multibillion-dollar plan to build another terminal and develop a new concourse branching from Terminal 1. The project, which would have added more than 12 gates, was already behind schedule, with construction initially supposed to start in 2022 and wrap ahead of the 2028 Olympics. Ackerman said those projects will get built if and when demand supports their need.
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Christensen also addressed design plans to reconfigure access to the airport by adding ramps from Sepulveda Boulevard around the Hyatt Regency to 1 World Way with the hope of improving traffic flow. The goal would be for the bulk of that project to be done by the 2028 Olympics, but it would probably not be completed until later; details have not been finalized.