"Uncommonly Long Line Builds At LAX"

Sunday, June 22, 2008

Uncommonly Long Line Builds At LAX
Reporter: 'Longest I've Ever Seen At This Terminal'
KNBC-TV Ch 4 (NBC), Los Angeles (CA)


LOS ANGELES -- Police at Los Angeles International Airport said a large
crowd in the sun waiting to get into Terminal 1 appeared to be merely the
result of an unusual travel pattern, and not related to any unusual security
event.

A reporter at the airport estimated at 10 a.m. Sunday that about 1,000
people were lined up outside Terminal 1, waiting to get through security.

The line, described by the reporter as "the longest I've ever seen at this
terminal, and I fly here a lot," stretched west from the terminal doors past
the adjacent Terminal 2 entrance. 

People were shading themselves in the hot sun. The 10 a.m. LAX temperature
was 86 degrees, and there was no breeze and a scorching sun.

Airport police told the LAX traffic radio station, AM 530, that officers
were helping people in the line stay out of traffic on the busy upper deck.

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