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Los Angeles International Airport, the primary airport serving Los Angeles, is best known by its airport abbreviation, LAX. It is located in city's southwestern region, about 15 miles away from downtown Los Angeles. LAX takes care of more 'origin and destination' passenger traffic than any other airport in the world. It also is the globe's fifth-busiest airport when measured by passenger traffic, and 11th by cargo traffic. In 2004 more than 60 million passengers were taken care of and greater than 2 million tons of freight. Not surprisingly, it is the most active airport in California. In overseas passengers, LAX is America's second-busiest airport, lagging only New York's JFK International Airport. It is the major regional hub for United Airlines, and the secondary hub for Delta Air Lines. United Airlines operates to the most destinations, followed by Delta Air Lines, then American. United also sends out the most international flights to the Pacific, while it, Air France, and Lufthansa share the lead with destinations in Europe. Delta carries the most passengers to Latin America. The airport is situated on 3,425 acres, and is one of the most propitious locations for commercial airplane watching, most notably at Clutter's Park in El Segundo, where the entire southern region of the airport can be seen. Another viewing location sits right under the final approach for one of the many runways, on a grass lawn next to a local burger restaurant. Watchers may view a large variety of low-flying commercial airliners from directly underneath. Though LAX is the biggest airport in Los Angeles, the region has multiple airport systems because of its tremendous size. A good number of the area's top tourist attractions are closer in proximity to airports other than LAX. For example, Griffith Park and Hollywood are nearer to Burbank's Bob Hope Airport, while John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana is nearby to Disneyland and Angel Stadium of Anaheim. Long Beach Airport is close to many of southern California's coastal attractions.
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Matt Paolini is a transportation writer for CityBook, the family-safe Los Angeles yellow pages online, which carries an extensive directory on Los Angeles moving and storage.
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