Which Delta terminal at LAX?

[SBD]

Good morning,

I'm connecting from TBIT to DL 3549 on July 21, and I'm trying to discover what terminal my DL flight will use now that they have been relocated.

I thought I was a fairly savvy traveller but this has me stumped.

It must be Terminal 2 or 3, but it would be great to learn which one (for reasons including catching up with a friend, and potentially finding a shower. NB these are separate reasons.)

Do any domestic Delta lounges have showers?

Kind regards,

SBD

 

[serfty]

No showers currently.

For terminal information install the Delta App.

Then find your Delta booking reference and use that to query terminal etc.

 

[SBD]

Hi Serfty,

It's curious -- the app says "gate information not available."

Any other ideas?

SBD

 

[Himeno]

DL3549 used T3 yesterday and today, but is currently planned to use T2 on Wed and Thu. You might not know what terminal it is using until the day of the flight.

There is a small hand written sign at the entrance to the TBIT arrivals TSA connection checkpoint saying that you can't connect to Delta via the airside connector.

 

[serfty]

Hi Serfty,

It's curious -- the app says "gate information not available."

Any other ideas?

SBD

It can be any gate ... The app won't show it until the day before the flight and that can still change.

 

[serfty]

...

There is a small hand written sign at the entrance to the TBIT arrivals TSA connection checkpoint saying that you can't connect to Delta via the airside connector.

You certainly can't walk airside but DL do provide an airside bus between the northern tip of TBIT and T2/T3.

 

[Antoallison]

I had a shower in the Delta Lounge at LAX last September. I was flying Delta/Virgin codeshare flights - just paid $75 AUD for entry unlimited time in the pleasant Delta lounge before departure.

 

[SBD]

Do you remember the terminal? This would have been before the move to T2/3, I think.

Kind regards,

SBD

 

[SBD]

Thanks, Himeno and Serfty.

I normally prefer to walk to get my legs moving again but that airside bus sounds great.

I've finally got my act together and arranged my new Global Entry card, and I'm carry on only, so optimistic about getting to T2 or T3 swiftly.

DL's priority lines for TSA security are often good but I'll certainly stay airside now that I know I can.

Two remaining questions...

1. Now that I know I can connect airside, I'm tempted by a TBIT lounge instead of the DL one in T2/3. Is this possible? I'll have arrived on Air NZ (J, no status) and connecting to F class on DL (status being VA platinum).

2. And does this wonder bus run the other direction, i.e. to TBIT from T2/3, as well?

SBD

 

[serfty]

Do you remember the terminal? This would have been before the move to T2/3, I think. ...

It would have been T5 - I have had quite a few showers there.

There are shower facilities s in the what is now T2 Skyclub but have not been in operation since the May move. They are to open "soon".

 

[moa999]

1. Think you should get skyteam lounge via Class of Service, although next flight is domestic only (but you are on an international itinerary - I'm just not sure if SkyTeam has that exception)
2. Yes. Bus connections possible both ways

Actually No. SkyTeam rules require both the Intl and Dom flight to be on SkyTeam members
https://www.skyteam.com/en/lounges

So think you will be limited to the Delta lounges

 

[SBD]

Thank you, Serfty.

With 3:10 between landing at LAX at TBIT and taking off from T2 of T3, would you suggest I just use the Skyclub in T2 or 3?

Or try a TBIT lounge and then take the airside bus over with plenty of tfor my connection?

(Immigration should be quick with Global Entry and carry on only.)

Kind regards,

SBD

 

[ozbeachbabe]

Do you remember the terminal? This would have been before the move to T2/3, I think.

Kind regards,

SBD

I flew out of LAX on DL on 29 April this year which was still T5.

1. Think you should get skyteam lounge via Class of Service, although next flight is domestic only (but you are on an international itinerary - I'm just not sure if SkyTeam has that exception)
2. Yes. Bus connections possible both ways

Actually No. SkyTeam rules require both the Intl and Dom flight to be on SkyTeam members
https://www.skyteam.com/en/lounges

So think you will be limited to the Delta lounges

We flew LAX/LAS on DL last October on a USD49.00 cheapie in whY and SO had elite Skyteam Freccia Italia membership (status match to QF WP) and we were denied access to the DL Skyclub at T5 as they said we had to have been travelling on an international flight and we were only going to Vegas. We had already been in the states for a week or two so had not just arrived on an international flight.

We were able to use it at ATL prior to a flight to Costa Rica.

SO has an Amex Plat charge card that allows access to DL Skyclubs however DL don't allow guests so it would've cost us about USD50.00 which wouldn't have been worth it. If a partner has a subsidiary Amex Plat charge card that would have solved the problem so instead we headed to T6 and used the Alaska Airlines Boardroom via Priority Pass.

 

[SBD]

Skyclub in LAX T3 is pretty crummy. It's the old Virgin America Loft. Before that it was the Alaska Boardroom, and before that the old TWA lounge.

At 1 pm today (Friday) the Skyclub lacked available seats with power. Nothing hot except instant noodles. The advertised showers are allegedly under construction but this seems more aspirational than imminent.

The (pleasant) desk staff needed assistance understanding access for VA plat. My boarding pass said both VA Platinum and (DL) Diamond Medallion, but she still scrutinised my actual VFF plastic card.

Oh well.

Within minutes, after some carrot sticks with ranch and an excellent DIY fountain Diet Coke with crushed ice and about six pieces of lemon (what I often crave after long haul travel), I left to walk around and plane-watch instead.

By the way access to this lounge is by stairs or a single elevator that does double duty for Tarmac pass holders; while typing on my phone after leaving the lounge I saw an elderly couple waiting 5 full minutes for the non-arriving elevator before I carried their bags up and they then hiked up the stairs to the lounge.

Could be improved, put it that way.

Beats the circus in the terminal of course. Most chairs there have power points but they're not actually cabled to electricity yet, so people plug in and nothing happens.

Onwards and upwards.

 

[Ausbt]

Yes the old Virgin Loft is pretty average. Focusing on the (few) positives though, the bathrooms were clean and large and a hell of a lot better than those in T3, and the tarmac views are nice. Lots of packaged-type foodstuffs means lots of take-on-board foodstuffs But yeah after a while you'll find heading down to the general concourse at T3 and just looking at the wondrous and curious types of people you will see there more interesting, and interesting it sure is.

As far as DL goes well I took an actual letter from VA on the last trip specifying that I was entitled to access at various DL lounges around the traps. Past experienced had proven it was often a battle of wills with various lounge angels, ATA near gate 40 being the worst.