Los Angeles (LAX) Transit Questions & Tips

[MEL_Traveller]

Just arrived in LAX. Have a connecting flight with LATAM in 7hours. Bags are tagged all the way through but we haven’t been checked in for those flights. thought there would be somewhere we can drop our bags but apparently not…we need to wait for latam to open in 3hours…can anyone confirm?

Possibly… just take your bags with you to the hotel!

 

[Jenya]

l am planning LAX unprotected connection between YVR flying United, then FJ to NAN.
Separate tickets, checked in bags, 4 pax and 2,5 hours layover. 20:00 arrival and 22:35 departure Saturday 3 Jan.
UA and FJ got interline agreement but on separate PNR no chance checking bags through to Fiji.
I heavily rely on US preclearance in Canada so will be arriving to LAX as domestic pax.
I believe we are flying into terminal 7 and will need to collect bag and walk to TBIT landside.
My question is what is there a requirement to clear US departure immigration after we check in and drop bags on FJ counter? or only TSA clearance?
Would it make any difference if I go landside just on my own to hassle check in and TSA, with rest of the family stay airside and head straight to TBIT departure gate?
Thanks.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

l am planning LAX unprotected connection between YVR flying United, then FJ to NAN.
Separate tickets, checked in bags, 4 pax and 2,5 hours layover. 20:00 arrival and 22:35 departure Saturday 3 Jan.
UA and FJ got interline agreement but on separate PNR no chance checking bags through to Fiji.
I heavily rely on US preclearance in Canada so will be arriving to LAX as domestic pax.
I believe we are flying into terminal 7 and will need to collect bag and walk to TBIT landside.
My question is what is there a requirement to clear US departure immigration after we check in and drop bags on FJ counter? or only TSA clearance?
Would it make any difference if I go landside just on my own to hassle check in and TSA, with rest of the family stay airside and head straight to TBIT departure gate?
Thanks.

There’s no departure control from the USA, so just the security lines.

You’d save the TSA lines if just one of you went landslide to check in, but you’d only be able to check in bags for the one passenger at the check in desk… so if you just had one or two bags (or whatever the FJ allowance is for a sing,e passenger), you’d be fine,

They won’t let you check bags on another ticket for someone else.

 

[Jenya]

if you just had one or two bags (or whatever the FJ allowance is for a sing,e passenger), you’d be fine,

Thank you.
I will only have 2 checked bags and I believe being QF Platinum permits 2 bags per person with One Word partners, even on classic reward fare.

They won’t let you check bags on another ticket for someone else.

we are all on one booking, so I hope we can just check in online with just me going landside for bags check in.
Probably would do that only if incoming flight happen to be late, otherwise 2,5 hr should be enough for all of us to stay together to remove any confusion?
UA387 has excellent record on Flightradar always arriving ahead of schedule, so that's promising.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Thank you.
I will only have 2 checked bags and I believe being QF Platinum permits 2 bags per person with One Word partners, even on classic reward fare.

we are all on one booking, so I hope we can just check in online with just me going landside for bags check in.
Probably would do that only if incoming flight happen to be late, otherwise 2,5 hr should be enough for all of us to stay together to remove any confusion?
UA387 has excellent record on Flightradar always arriving ahead of schedule, so that's promising.

If you can check in all the bags, and you can get boarding passes for the inward flight for the rest of the party, ot sure there’s much benefit in dragging everyone out landside?

Any document checks can be done at the gate. And if you want to make doubly sure, just ask when checking in the bags… soupy your family is staying airside in transit, you all have boarding passes, anything else that needs to be done.

 

[Jenya]

Is there any way to speed up TSA clearance in TBIT? (except paid memberships and preclearance available to US passport holders only)?
In SEA I recall using some fast-track service like you can scan QR code and prebook specific time you want to turn up for security screening.

 

[RooFlyer]

Is there any way to speed up TSA clearance in TBIT? (except paid memberships and preclearance available to US passport holders only)?
In SEA I recall using some fast-track service like you can scan QR code and prebook specific time you want to turn up for security screening.

Here's an article which may help

How to avoid long TSA security lines at US airports

Even if you're not flying up front, there are still ways to speed through the airport. Here are some of our favourite security fast-tracks.

www.pointhacks.com.au

 

[rjwx]

Hey guys just throwing my scenario out here - im connecting from Seoul to Lima via LAX on Asiana and LATAM. I booked them in one ticket (I.e I can see my LATAM flight on the Asiana app and vice versa)

At Seoul they’ve weren’t able to issue my LATAM onward boarding pass and told me I need to go to the check-in counter for LATAM at LAX. However, my bags were tagged to LIM.

I know I have to pick up my bags anyway at LAX, but I was wondering whether I:

A) Drop my bag off at the LAX transit counter and then go upstairs by myself to obtain the onwards boarding pass from LATAM’s checkin

B) Take myself and my checked bags to the LATAM check-in counter at LAX

Or any other route?

Thanks in advance!

 

[SYD]

Hey guys just throwing my scenario out here - im connecting from Seoul to Lima via LAX on Asiana and LATAM. I booked them in one ticket (I.e I can see my LATAM flight on the Asiana app and vice versa)

At Seoul they’ve weren’t able to issue my LATAM onward boarding pass and told me I need to go to the check-in counter for LATAM at LAX. However, my bags were tagged to LIM.

I know I have to pick up my bags anyway at LAX, but I was wondering whether I:

A) Drop my bag off at the LAX transit counter and then go upstairs by myself to obtain the onwards boarding pass from LATAM’s checkin

B) Take myself and my checked bags to the LATAM check-in counter at LAX

Or any other route?

Thanks in advance!

If your luggage is tagged thru, you ought to be able to drop them off at the transfer area.

Google suggests there’s a LA transfer desk there - hopefully you can get an onward BP, otherwise you can’t go thru the security transfer at TBIT and you’ll have to schlep onwards to the LA checkin counters landslide and then join the masses trying to get airside again,

 

[jbda2017]

Separately, since the reconstruction of T5 anyone had experiences trying to connect AS to TBIT or vice versa? Only possible to do land side now? What about bag through check QF to AS via that downstairs connecting flights thingy in arrivals

 

[justinbrett]

Separately, since the reconstruction of T5 anyone had experiences trying to connect AS to TBIT or vice versa? Only possible to do land side now? What about bag through check QF to AS via that downstairs connecting flights thingy in arrivals

There's an airside bus

 

[Himeno]

Separately, since the reconstruction of T5 anyone had experiences trying to connect AS to TBIT or vice versa? Only possible to do land side now? What about bag through check QF to AS via that downstairs connecting flights thingy in arrivals

There is a bus from T4 to T6 and the "T5" remote gates (eagles nest). The remote gates are still numbered as gates 52A-J. Not clear if the T6 bus also goes to TBIT. Likely need to go to T4, then use the connector building walkway near gate 41 to get to TBIT.
The bus appears to go from a departure area under gate 49 and not from where the T4 buses used to use.

None of the info/maps I can find say where in T6 the airside shuttle departs from, just that such a shuttle exists.