Pack Some Patience: Memorial Day Travel Crunch Begins
LOS ANGELES—The official Memorial Day holiday travel period begins May 26 in what’s expected to be one of the busiest crunches since the COVID-19 pandemic began.
In anticipation of all those people on the move, Los Angeles International Airport on Wednesday opened a second cell phone waiting lot, hoping to encourage more people to wait for arriving passengers there rather than circling through the Central Terminal Area.
The secondary cell phone lot is at 96th Street and Alverstone Avenue. The original cell phone lot is at 96th and Vicksburg Avenue.
LAX officials estimate that 1.2 million passengers could pass through the airport between Wednesday and Monday. Thursday’s travel numbers alone could surpass 218,000 passengers, officials said, which would be the busiest day at the airport since March 2020….