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View of the master plan at Los Angeles International Airport. ©2010 Fentress Architects/Los Angeles World Airports. All rights reserved.
their hubs, but they are going to grab any tactical opportunities,” he adds. That an airport’s infrastructure supports, and where possible enhances airline operations, is a point LAX has certainly taken on board in its modernisation programme.
Infrastructure concerns An important consideration for airport offi cials and Fentress Architects, the lead developers of the infrastructure plan, has been to enhance connectivity both within the terminal and to the airport’s other nine terminals. Terminal 3, TBIT and Terminal 4 will be connected to one another via secured corridors, allowing passengers to move quickly and conveniently between them, while dual passenger loading bridges will allow faster boarding and departing. A planned automated people
mover, the ‘Skytrain’, will link the arterial Aviation Boulevard and all nine terminals together, allowing passengers to travel between them in approximately fi ve minutes.
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An expanded central passport control and security area, featuring 80 customs inspection counters will increase capacity from 2,800 passengers per hour to 4,000 per hour. Passenger processing has already been improved following a $737 million renovation programme of TBIT completed in March 2010, which added 45,000sqft of space for a new checked-baggage security facility. This reduced passenger congestion in the airline ticketing lobby by removing large explosive detection systems which were previously located there.
A lot of thought was put into helping streamline airline operations, whether it is putting alliance partners next to or near each other and ensuring smooth transfers from international to domestic and vice versa.
For example, the TBIT’s south side baggage screening system has been integrated with the American Airlines Terminal 4 In-line baggage system, to help improve operational effi ciencies.
Co-location opportunities “I think it will be a big plus for route development because it gives us a lot more fl exibility to co-locate alliance partners. It will also provide more seamless connections, especially business customers, better fl ight times, opportunities to share costs, especially for joint ventures such as the BA, Iberia and AA tie up,” says Thorpe. “American Airlines and American Eagle are based right next to Tom Bradley where their alliance partners Cathay Pacifi c and BA are based and they will be connected by a walkway,” he enthuses.
This means that the TBIT modernisation programme also provides signifi cant advantages for domestic carriers.
Those same secured terminal corridors will allow US originating passengers to transfer straight to other domestic or international services quickly without going through TSA screening – a crucial advantage especially for LCCs looking for quick turnarounds.
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