Southwest Airlines City Fact Sheets


Los Angeles, CA (LAX)
Starting Service:

September 18, 1982

Three daily nonstop departures to Phoenix

19th city in Southwest system

Current Service:

Los Angeles (LAX) is Southwest Airlines’ eighth busiest airport in terms of daily departures.

116 daily nonstop departures to 20 cities: Albuquerque, Austin, Baltimore/Washington, Chicago (Midway), Denver, El Paso, Houston (Hobby), Kansas City, Las Vegas, Nashville, Oakland, Phoenix, Reno/Tahoe, Sacramento, Salt Lake City, San Antonio, San Francisco, San Jose, St. Louis, and Tucson

Additional direct or connecting service to 44 cities
Gates: 11
Employees: Ground Operations: 389
Maintenance: 34
Provisioning: 46

Total: 469
*Four airports serve the Los Angeles (LAX) area community. For information on the other three, see the Burbank Airport (BUR), Ontario International Airport (ONT), and Orange County International Airport (SNA) fact sheets.

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