{"id":109647,"date":"2022-07-26T13:38:20","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T20:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=109647"},"modified":"2022-07-26T20:39:46","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T03:39:46","slug":"lax-passenger-traffic-returns-to-pre-pandemic-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2022\/07\/26\/lax-passenger-traffic-returns-to-pre-pandemic-levels\/","title":{"rendered":"LAX passenger traffic returns to pre-pandemic levels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/LAX.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-86778\" src=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/LAX.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/LAX.jpg 480w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/LAX-300x172.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first time since January 2020, more than 6 million passengers passed through Los Angeles International Airport last month, airport officials announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, LAX served a total of 6,118,003 passengers\u00a0\u00a0in June, an increase of 25.2% compared with June 2021, according to airport data.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the number of international travelers passing through the airport more than doubled over the last year, from 761,489 in June 2021 to 1,621,442 last month &#8212; representing a nearly 113% increase.<\/p>\n<p>The number of domestic passengers was up by 8.9% last month compared to June 2021 &#8212; from 4,126,205 to 4,496,561, officials reported.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 238,759 tons of air cargo was handled at LAX in June, a dip of 3.2% from June 2021, data show.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As we enter the home stretch of the busy summer season, we are watching our international traffic increase and our strong domestic network take off,&#8221; said Justin Erbacci, CEO of Los Angeles World Airports.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We thank our guests who are returning to the skies, and our employees who continue to provide safe, secure and enjoyable travel experiences.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>LAX has served more than 30 million passengers during the first half of 2022, up 70 percent from the same period in 2021, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time since January 2020, more than 6 million passengers passed through Los Angeles International Airport last month, airport officials announced Tuesday. Specifically, LAX served a total of 6,118,003 passengers\u00a0\u00a0in June, an increase of 25.2% compared with June 2021, according to airport data. In addition, the number of international travelers passing through the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109647"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109648,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109647\/revisions\/109648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}