Q:

Why is Los Angeles International Airport called LAX

Answer

Airports originally used a 2-letter abbreviation. When they expanded to 3 letters, an X was added, but it has no special meaning.

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Source: WWW.LAWA.ORG/LAX - FAQs | www.l-a-x.org

Oct 20 2009, 05:30pm

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Existing airports used to use a 2-letter abbreviation. LA was the designation. It became LAX when expended to 3 letter abbr.

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