LAX

See also: lax

Translingual

Etymology

Initialism of English Los Angeles, from Spanish Los Ángeles with X as a placeholder.

Symbol

LAX

1. (international standards, aviation) IATA airport code for Los Angeles International Airport, which serves Los Angeles, California, United States.

   Coordinate term: KLAX

English

Etymology

From the IATA airport code.

Proper noun

LAX

1. Los Angeles International Airport
   • 1975, John H. Reed, National Transportation Safety Board, Safety Information, page 30:

     I have visited more than half a dozen carrier training facilities, spent over 150 hours on jumpseats, piloted a Lockheed 1011 from MIA to LAX, visited numerous towers, rapcons, and centers, and discussed our commercial Air Transport System with everyone involved.

   • 1994, Tom Clancy, Armored Cav: A Guided Tour of an Armored Cavalry Regiment, New York: Berkley Books, →ISBN, page 281:

     Fortunately, most of these were former French colonies, and through a combination of quiet diplomacy and well-placed French nationals in the various air-traffic-control centers, the 300-mile-long stream of American aircraft flew the width of Africa as uneventfully as a red-eye flight from LAX to JFK.

   • 1998, “JFK 2 LAX”, in Moment of Truth, performed by Gang Starr:

     Nothing happened, mind your business yo step / You know we connect, JFK 2 LAX

   • 2025 March 17, Andrew Marantz, “The Battle for the Bros”, in The New Yorker‎, →ISSN, archived from the original on 17 March 2025:

     By the time I landed at LAX and switched my phone out of airplane mode, Hasan Piker had been streaming for three hours.

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