Gresham Smith; a consulting company, is working on a new way finding plan for LAX that if chosen could re-number all the gates at LAX... rather than the two digit "XX" numbers, the domestic terminals would be 3 digit "XXX" with the terminal starting in the first digit on the hundreds. This would get rid of the current Number, Number, Letter we have where there are more gates than there are numbers for each terminal
This further solidifies the Super Terminal concept for the big airlines, consolidating what was once 2 terminals into one. Delta consolidates into 200's, United into 700s, Bradley for numbers would be 300s, and the concept of a T9 International would actually be T8, while current T8 is under United 700s. Is American not getting full priority over T5 for another Super terminal 4?? Aren’t they “code-sharing” with JetBlue and where will AA's Eagles Nest regional terminal gates be relocated to once T9 starts construction next year?? Might this be the new MSC South Gates Expansion?? It looks to be this way in the Gresham Smith image below showing bus routes from T4/T5 to MSC and LAWA choosing to alter the design to be much smaller in scale than the existing MSC.
https://www.lawa.org/transforminglax...ming/msc-south
https://www.greshamsmith.com/project...ture-projects/
Also, I'm curious... does anyone know the plan for T7/T8 and why they are not getting a new standardized head house like the rest? The plans I've heard is that they will instead use the existing pedestrian bridge crossing and expand it, and this looks to be the case as the people mover crossing is now lined up with the existing parking garage crossing to T7.
Why would they not go for a new head house, or is this part of the plan to build up once the Star Alliance International Terminal 9 is finished??
Great resource for keeping up to date with the construction progress at LAX
https://www.lawa.org/transforminglax/photo-gallery
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