LAX newcomer
 

Hello everyone.
This is my first post in the Flyertalk forums and I have a question for you LAX experts.
I am flying into LAX for the first time this coming April for my first international flight. I'm coming from Milwaukee and flying into LAX on Midwest airlines, which I believe uses T3 for their arrivals. I have a flight on Qantas airlines to Sydney, Australia leaving 1 hour and 55 minutes later from T4. Now.....have I put myself in a bind here? Is there any direct route from T3 to T4? I've been told by someone at Midwest that they will tag my check-in luggage for transfer to Qantas in Los Angeles, so I won't have to worry about that. I'll be flying in on a Friday morning. Any suggestions? I'm starting to feel that I might have to rebook my flights so I stay in the same terminal on arrival and departure. Before I do that ....I wanted to ask you all first. I would appreciate any help you can give me.
Thanks.

Jeff

The distance between T3 and and T4 is not that far and every terminal is connected by sidewalk as they are all nex to each other. I like to compare it to a walk in an Atlanta concourse. Hopefully, you can have your luggage checked through so that you wont have to carry it with you. If you can walk with then just walk out the door and hang left going pas the international teminal. If it is alot of stuff you may have to take the shuttle van but it will be a very short ride. Here is a terminal map

Welcome to FlyerTalk Desperado. A little fine tuning for you here.

I believe Qantas uses the International Terminal for departures and Terminal 4 for arrivals. If that's correct, then from Terminal 3, your departure terminal will be closer by about a minute or two. Please verify your departure terminal in case I'm mistaken. It wouldn't be the first time I've been wrong. ;)

Also, when you exit Terminal 3 (either level) you actually need to turn right and continue on the sidewalk which will curve toward the left and immediately you will see the International Terminal (aka Tom Bradley Terminal) on your right. From Terminal 3, it's about a one or two minute walk. If you do require Terminal 4, continue walking for an additional minute or so and once the sidewalk curves left again, Terminal 4 will be on your right. The LAX terminal map that flyingcat provided a link for is excellent.

And some good news. I've just been advised by Midwest that they will transfer your luggage in Los Angeles to Qantas. You will need to request it in Milwaukee and show your Qantas tickets/itinerary when you check your luggage for your Midwest flight.

Good luck and happy travels!

The are some Quantas flights that depart and arrive out of T4, however there are still some flights that leave out of the bradley international terminal. Here is the list I have:
Flights QF8, QF12, QF108 and QF107 depart from Terminal 4.
Flights QF176, QF156, QF26 and QF94 depart from Tom Bradley International Terminal.

Hi Desperado,

Definitely make sure you get YX (Midwest) to interline your baggage over to QF. YX at LAX is notoriously slow in offloading bags in my experience. Part of the problem is YX 802 arrives at a peak arrival time along with other TZ and AS flights, and T3 has only 3 carousels.

But what famous carousels! T3 is where all the terminal shots from the 1979 comedy Airplane! was filmed. There was a scene filmed in the lower level hallway leading to baggage claim, and bag claim B is where the people pop down the chute on to the carousel. And scarily enough, nothing has been renovated since then :cool:

My 2 cents. It looked like you were hoping to avoid security more than you were a walk between terminals. No good tricks for you with your terminals. Just hope that the lines are not crazy. Obviously not having to check bags will be a big one, for the int. terminal there is usually a queue for checking in, then a comparable line to wait and have your checked luggage scanned.

Good thing it's only a 747, and you don't have to wait with 500-800 people boarding the new Airbeast.

Happy travels.