LAX-Terminal Transfer Time
 

We're booked on AA from SFO to LAX and arrive at 8:55 am and have to get to our AA flight to Puerta Vallarta operated by Mexicana by 9:30 (the flight departs at 9:50). We called AA before purchasing the online reservation and they said the reservation would not permit you to buy into a schedule you could not make. Nevertheless, I'm a little concerned about how quickly we can make it from Terminal 4 to Tom Bradley International even though they are right next to each other on the terminal map. Our luggage will be checked through...we'll just have to get our bodies there in time. Any comments about how to get ourselves from one terminal to the other most efficiently?

Walk quickly or run.

LAX is my home airport.

The AA terminal and the Bradley terminal really are very close. You will walk out of the AA terminal and go to your LEFT.

Since you do go outside, you WILL have to go through security again. That could eat up time!!!

I think the biggest concern would be that your AA flight does not get delayed leaving SFO. (Which mine was 2 1/2 hours delayed last July)

Like the previous posted said RUN!!!!!

Thanks very much for your advice (RUN!) and comments....I called AA again today and the agent re-scheduled us and said there was no way that we would have made that connection. Fortunately, it was not a problem to fix (thanks to a very gracious AA agent) and we can now walk at a normal pace to get our flight to PV.

Good for you, that works! The Tom Bradley Int'l Terminal is at the top of the horsehoe formed by the terminals at LAX; it was good in 1984 (Olympics) but now it's a disgrace, signage is lousy and it needs rebuilding badly. Stay together when you enter it. Have a good trip!