LA loses more retail space to security checkpoints

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More retail space to go at Los Angeles airport in security shake-up

Los Angeles International airport (LAX) is to lose more retail outlets to make way for enlarged security checkpoints. The Hudson Group looks set to lose some key spaces in both terminals, but will compensated elsewhere. An airport spokesman said the airport would lose over 10,000sq ft (930sq m) of retail space following the introduction of new security requirements.

He said: "It looks like we will definitely lose concession spaces in terminals one and six. This means that the remaining specialty retail spaces which we had planned to tender this year will instead be provided to Hudson as replacement for their losses."

Initially, three stores will be affected: a bookshop and a gift & news store in T1 (handling domestic flights from US Airways and Southwest Airlines); plus a gift & news store in T6, which serves Delta, United and Continental, covering about 10% of international departures. The total area affected is about 6,000sq ft (560sq m).
Five other speciality shops in terminals one, two and five are operated by DFS Group, and these will be contracted out to Hudson as replacement for lost space elsewhere. Hudson will also benefit from vacant spaces in terminal seven and the Tom Bradley International terminal, said the spokesman.