{"id":119417,"date":"2024-09-03T02:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T16:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/los-angeles-international-airport-operational-quirks-guide\/"},"modified":"2024-09-03T02:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T16:00:12","slug":"a-pilots-perspective-the-operational-quirks-of-los-angeles-international-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=119417","title":{"rendered":"A Pilot&#8217;s Perspective: The Operational Quirks Of Los Angeles International Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    Anyone who knows anything about aviation knows what the letters &#8220;LAX&#8221; stand for. For that matter, nearly every American and countless others worldwide have a tacit understanding of what these three letters signify: <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/los-angeles-international-airport\/\">Los Angeles International Airport<\/a>. Los Angeles is one of the world&#8217;s busiest and most iconic airports. It&#8217;s an origin and destination for tens of millions of people annually, the crew base for thousands of pilots and flight attendants, a global juggernaut for cargo operations, and the gateway to one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordeconomics.com\/global-cities-index\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" >most prominent cities<\/a> in the world. This article is an in-depth analysis of LAX and what it&#8217;s like to be a pilot at this mega airport.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Insights into one of the world&#8217;s most iconic airports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,567,3077,1533,4275,552,629],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-guides","category-lax","category-los-angeles","category-los-angeles-international","category-los-angeles-international-airport","category-pilots"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119418,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119417\/revisions\/119418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}