LAX Midfield Satellite Concourse to [15 West Gates Now Open, 8 More Being Built]
Sep 26, 2022, 8:37 am
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A well known Hawaii travel blog recently called out the mid field terminal as the worst airport experience in HA’s network and chastised the airline for agreeing to move there.
I completely agree.
I completely agree.
Mar 8, 2023, 3:57 pm
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https://www.sfgate.com/hawaii/articl...s-17786603.php
Although I have not personally visited the terminal, the complaint seems pretty specious. Clearly the author has never visited LHR or FRA. Even walking from ORD Terminal B to C through the tunnel takes a while.
That said I would be all the lounges are in the main terminal?
$1.6B for just 12 gates?? What kind of idiot signed off on this project?
If LAX wants to join the 21st century, they don't need 12 more gates, they to start with:
1. a Miami-style high speed monorail connecting the terminals with a centralized rental car and transportation hub station off-site
2. an "overlay" build-out that layers a pre and post security ticketing/security concourse on top of the separate terminal buildings to create one consistent U shaped seamless terminal building to permit gate assignment flexibility instead of so many disconnected terminal buildings
3. a McNamara/DTW style pre and post security monorail built inside the overlay that moves people between zones of the new single-terminal look overlay or a YYZ-style high speed moving walk-ways doing the same at ground level
If LAX wants to join the 21st century, they don't need 12 more gates, they to start with:
1. a Miami-style high speed monorail connecting the terminals with a centralized rental car and transportation hub station off-site
2. an "overlay" build-out that layers a pre and post security ticketing/security concourse on top of the separate terminal buildings to create one consistent U shaped seamless terminal building to permit gate assignment flexibility instead of so many disconnected terminal buildings
3. a McNamara/DTW style pre and post security monorail built inside the overlay that moves people between zones of the new single-terminal look overlay or a YYZ-style high speed moving walk-ways doing the same at ground level
The bigger nightmare - the one that makes me avoid LAX like the plague - is the horrific traffic/gridlock both inside the airport and sometimes on Century Blvd leading into the airport. This can literally add 30 minutes or more, particularly if you are waiting for a shuttle (and often the shuttles are full and don't even stop at T7-T8). So maybe a monorail is needed to run down Century Blvd and to loop through Car rental lots and rideshare lots. But the price should be elimination of all the shuttles.
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Mar 8, 2023, 4:32 pm
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While the horseshoe in the airport can be awful at times beginning just east of Terminal 1, it is easy to avoid the potential mess on Century. Enter the airport from Sepulveda Blvd. All the livery and Uber traffic have long recognized that the Sepulveda access (aka: Vicksburg or 96th Street entrances) is more efficient. You can also exit the 405 Freeway on La Tijera or Manchester to approach that entrance.
Mar 8, 2023, 6:35 pm
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The bigger nightmare - the one that makes me avoid LAX like the plague - is the horrific traffic/gridlock both inside the airport and sometimes on Century Blvd leading into the airport. This can literally add 30 minutes or more, particularly if you are waiting for a shuttle (and often the shuttles are full and don't even stop at T7-T8). So maybe a monorail is needed to run down Century Blvd and to loop through Car rental lots and rideshare lots. But the price should be elimination of all the shuttles.
All that being said and with my moderator's hat on, this is off-topic for the TBIT West Gates thread. Please continue this discussion in the relevant thread:
Apr 4, 2023, 12:09 pm
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AF lounge is the only one confirmed in TBIT West concourse. Hawaiian probably could use one but doesn't seem like it makes sense to build one given the relatively small premium cabin of its 3 daily flights. Perhaps they will use the AF lounge once it opens.
Jul 6, 2023, 2:23 pm
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MSC South Ground Breaking Last Week
MSC South Groundbreaking Last Week
Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA) has celebrated the groundbreaking of its Midfield Satellite Concourse (MSC) South project at Los Angles International Airport (LAX).
Substantial completion is scheduled for 2025 at which point the EAAgles Nest is supposed to be razed to make way for Terminal 9. Getting Terminal 9 built in time for Olympics is the goal. although schedule looks tight!
Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA) has celebrated the groundbreaking of its Midfield Satellite Concourse (MSC) South project at Los Angles International Airport (LAX).
Substantial completion is scheduled for 2025 at which point the EAAgles Nest is supposed to be razed to make way for Terminal 9. Getting Terminal 9 built in time for Olympics is the goal. although schedule looks tight!
Jul 28, 2023, 1:45 pm
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It seems like everyone is dumping their flights into TBIT: Delta (what is going on with T2 FIS?) and partners, American and a handful of domestic carriers. Does LAWA/CBP want to consolidate all operations at TBIT? If so, that should open gates up for domestic carriers.
The walk from the 200+ gates reminds of me Heathrow Terminal 2B.
