ARCHIVE: LAX Terminal 4 - TBIT secure airside connector to be built
Sep 17, 2013 | 8:16 pm
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The big reason to want the airside connection is to avoid having to go through security again.
Sep 17, 2013 | 8:55 pm
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Particularly since the stop for the shuttle bus sits in the middle between the end of TBIT and the start of T4. Moreover, the distance is about 100 feet between the two buildings to begin with.
Sep 17, 2013 | 8:56 pm
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Sep 17, 2013 | 9:36 pm
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Arrive early for an AA flight out of T4, check in luggage, walk over to TBIT for a DAILY GRILL meal, walk back. I used to do that all the time. Now DrQ* is retired and can drop me off closer to flight time.
*I told my husband he is "MrQ", and he requested that I use his proper PhD title. Thus: DrQ from now on.
Sep 17, 2013 | 11:19 pm
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Thanks! I never knew that. I just walk between the two terminals.
Arrive early for an AA flight out of T4, check in luggage, walk over to TBIT for a DAILY GRILL meal, walk back. I used to do that all the time. Now DrQ* is retired and can drop me off closer to flight time.
*I told my husband he is "MrQ", and he requested that I use his proper PhD title. Thus: DrQ from now on.
Arrive early for an AA flight out of T4, check in luggage, walk over to TBIT for a DAILY GRILL meal, walk back. I used to do that all the time. Now DrQ* is retired and can drop me off closer to flight time.
*I told my husband he is "MrQ", and he requested that I use his proper PhD title. Thus: DrQ from now on.
I often sit outside on the upper level between the two terminals, and watch the planes take off towards the west. That is, until someone plops themselves down and lights up a cigarette.
Dec 4, 2013 | 7:19 am
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This thread is for the discussion of the airside connector which is being built between LAX T4 and TBIT. General questions about transferring at LAX have been and will continue to be moved to the relevant thread linked below:
MCT: LAX / Los Angeles Connection & Times - Domestic & International (consolidated)
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MCT: LAX / Los Angeles Connection & Times - Domestic & International (consolidated)
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Feb 5, 2014 | 8:00 pm
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Is there any real date clarity on this project yet?
OK I've looked through this thread and I can't find for sure whether anyone really knows the current estimated completion date for the connector. (Lots of discussion of healthy walks, and I'm cool with that coming home but not so sure on the way out as I'd rather not reclear security unnecessarily for a trip I am planning in early 2015. 
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Most of what has been said though makes it sound like this is no way happening before spring 2015. Is that correct?
Many thanks. ^
FTF
) Most of what has been said though makes it sound like this is no way happening before spring 2015. Is that correct?
Many thanks. ^
FTF
Feb 5, 2014 | 8:17 pm
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"Early September" was what I've seen most recently, but it's an airport, so that could move back, Eagle Club was supposed to open in January after all...
Feb 5, 2014 | 8:48 pm
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Here is a newsletter from two weeks ago that says "3rd Quarter 2015" on page 8:
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j...ShgXhiDJGoDIDQ
As it's an airport construction project (in Los Angeles, no less - so two things going for it), I'll be happy if it opens in the first half of 2016.
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j...ShgXhiDJGoDIDQ
As it's an airport construction project (in Los Angeles, no less - so two things going for it), I'll be happy if it opens in the first half of 2016.
Feb 5, 2014 | 10:45 pm
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Thanks, PainCorp and FWAAA - both extremely helpful (although a door slam on my hopes). I'll share your pessimism about the first deadline being met in any case - and even that would torpedo me.
Now I have to decide if the lure of CX is worth another trip through TSA - and of course the added chance of a missed flight. Maybe, maybe not. But FT came through for me again, and quick. Thanks.
FTF
Now I have to decide if the lure of CX is worth another trip through TSA - and of course the added chance of a missed flight. Maybe, maybe not. But FT came through for me again, and quick. Thanks.
FTF
Aug 11, 2014 | 11:13 pm
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Looks like the Connector design has changed somewhat.
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The "Connector Walkway Roof" was due for completion end of November 2014 and "New Interline Baggage Carousel Operational" in early March.
More mention (but no dates) here: LAWA Construction news, Aigust 2014
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The "Connector Walkway Roof" was due for completion end of November 2014 and "New Interline Baggage Carousel Operational" in early March.
More mention (but no dates) here: LAWA Construction news, Aigust 2014
Aug 11, 2014 | 11:50 pm
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More mention (but no dates) here: LAWA Construction news, Aigust 2014
Aug 12, 2014 | 2:18 am
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The whole project includes an integrated baggage handling facility - if you look at the Project milestone plan from last November which had final completion down for December had other milestones noted before then.
It's now out 4 months from that and if you shift that plan out by those four months, other possibilities may be extrapolated.
Nov 13, 2014 | 12:20 am
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And from the November newsletter:
This bridge will be constructed in conjunction with the SSCP south vertical access components; however, will not be available until
the Terminal 4 Connector Project is complete
the Terminal 4 Connector Project is complete
Nov 13, 2014 | 12:31 am
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I initially thought that may be a possibility, but am thinking the text may relate only to the walkway above the mezzanine. The exterior part of the connector sits on the new luggage facility - I really cannot discern for sure.
A four month delay to the date as per the link in post 71 would indeed mean 2016.
A four month delay to the date as per the link in post 71 would indeed mean 2016.