page_title: Los Angeles International Airport
section_title: Other facilities
hierarchical_section_title: Los Angeles International Airport / Other facilities
caption_attribution_description: English: LAX Airport hotels and runways.
context_page_description: Los Angeles International Airport, commonly referred to as LAX, is the primary international airport serving Los Angeles and its surrounding metropolitan area.
  LAX is located in the Westchester neighborhood of Los Angeles, 18 miles southwest of Downtown Los Angeles, with the commercial and residential areas of Westchester to the north, the city of El Segundo to the south and the city of Inglewood to the east. LAX is the closest airport to the Westside and the South Bay.
  Owned and operated by Los Angeles World Airports, an agency of the government of Los Angeles, formerly known as the Department of Airports, the airport covers 3,500 acres of land. LAX has four parallel runways.
  In 2019, LAX handled 88,068,013 passengers, making it the world's third busiest and the United States' second busiest airport following Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport. As the largest and busiest international airport on the U.S. West Coast, LAX is a major international gateway to the United States, and also serves a connection point for passengers traveling internationally.
context_section_description: The airport has the administrative offices of Los Angeles World Airports.
  Continental Airlines once had its corporate headquarters on the airport property. At a 1962 press conference in the office of Mayor of Los Angeles Sam Yorty, Continental Airlines announced that it planned to move its headquarters to Los Angeles in July 1963. In 1963 Continental Airlines headquarters moved to a two-story, $2.3 million building on the grounds of the airport. The July 2009 Continental Magazine issue stated that the move "underlined Continental Airlines western and Pacific orientation". On July 1, 1983 the airline's headquarters were relocated to the America Tower in the Neartown area of Houston.
  In addition to Continental Airlines, Western Airlines and Flying Tiger Line also had their headquarters at LAX.
caption: Hotels next to LAX
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