(Los Angeles California – June 23, 2014) Los Angeles World Airports has been honored with two 2014 Environmental Achievement (Runner-up) Awards for Los Angeles International Airport’s (LAX) Air Quality and Source Apportionment Study and its LAX Dunes Endangered El Segundo Blue Butterfly Recovery and Habitat Restoration Project by Airports Council International – North America (ACI-NA).
Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), today launched daily nonstop EY 170 service between Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) and Abu Dhabi International Airport (AUH).
Los Angeles is Etihad Airways’ fourth U.S. destination, joining Chicago, New York, and Washington, D.C. on the airline’s expanding network, which will increase further on December 3, 2014 with the addition of direct flights to Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW).
In response to USC’s recently released air quality study, Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA) has issued the following statement:
LAWA officials have not had the opportunity to review the USC study. However, in January 2014, LAWA completed a multi-year LAX Air Quality Source Apportionment Study, which was one of the most extensive air-quality studies ever performed at an airport. That study and its results are available atwww.lawa.org/airqualitystudy . Some of the key findings of that study: