Delta is set to undertake a $1.9 billion improvement project at
Los Angeles International Airport under a lease agreement approved by
the Los Angeles World Airport’s Board of Airport Commissioners (LAWA).
Under the project, Delta is slated to renovate and connect the
airport’s Terminals 2 and 3 over the next seven years. Delta would then
relocate to those terminals from its current LAX home at Terminals 5 and 6.
“By relocating from Terminals 5 and 6 to the complex at Terminals
2 and 3, Delta will operate alongside many of its airline partners, including
Aeromexico, Virgin Atlantic, and Virgin Australia,” the carrier said in a
statement. The move would expand Delta’s gates at LAX, where it has
grown from 70 to more than 175 daily departures since 2009.
Later in the project, Delta would build a secured connector
between Terminals 2 and 3 and the Tom Bradley International Terminal.
The project must still be approved by the Los Angeles City
Council.
Delta said that it would move forward now with a $350
million renovation of gate areas in Terminals 2 and 3, as well as new amenities
for passengers and an upgrade of baggage-handling systems. Delta will also
facilitate the relocation of the 22 airlines currently in Terminals 2 and 3 to
Terminals 5, 6 and the Bradley terminal.
LAX has a total of nine terminals.