Airports, Los Angeles

In the Los Angeles metropolitan area there are six commercial airports and many more general-aviation airports.
The primary Los Angeles airport is Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). The fifth busiest commercial airport in the world and the third busiest in the United States, LAX handled 61.9 million passengers, 1.884 million metric tons of cargo and 680,954 aircraft movements in 2007

International Airport
• Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) (IATA: LAX, ICAO: KLAX) is owned by the city of Los Angeles. The airport is located to the west of the city and is, by far, the busiest airport serving the city.[1] It is the fifth busiest commercial airport in the world and the third busiest in the United States; in 2006, LAX handled over 61 million passengers and 2 million tons of cargo.
• LA/Ontario International Airport (IATA: ONT, ICAO: KONT), owned by the city of Los Angeles; serves the Inland Empire. This airport is located to the east, in the bedroom community city of Ontario, California and is the next most prominent airport after LAX.

• Bob Hope Airport (formerly Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport) (IATA: BUR, ICAO: KBUR) is located in the middle north-east of the city. It is limited to a small number of passenger airlines and serves the San Fernando and San Gabriel Valleys.
• John Wayne Airport (IATA: SNA, ICAO: KSNA) is located to the south-east of the city, in the city of Santa Ana, in the northern part of Orange County.
• Long Beach Airport (IATA: LGB, ICAO: KLGB) is located to the south of the city, in the city of Long Beach.
• LA/Palmdale Regional Airport (IATA: PMD, ICAO: KPMD) is located north of the city, in Palmdale. The airport is owned by the city of Los Angeles and serves the northern outlying communities of the Santa Clarita and Antelope Valleys.
• Palm Springs International Airport (IATA: PSP, ICAO: KPSP) is located very far east of the city, near Palm Springs, and serves the Coachella Valley area of Riverside County.

LA Airports in popular culture:

• Several scenes of the 1985 Arnold Schwarzenegger motion picture Commando were filmed at the Tom Bradley International Terminal, on the airfield, and in an LAX parking deck.
• Although set at Washington Dulles International Airport, 1990's Die Hard 2 was filmed at the Tom Bradley International Terminal.
• In the 2004 video game, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, the airport was featured and parodied as Los Santos International Airport or LSX and was commonly called as Los Santos International. The theme building and the control tower of LAX were also featured. The theme building was also featured in the 2005 videogame, Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories.
• In the final season premiere of Lost, notably titled LA X, the alternate timeline sequences are mostly set in LAX, which was the intended destination of Oceanic Airlines Flight 815.