24 hours of LAX operations

Every taxi route is where the aircraft actually was, taken from its own ADS-B surface broadcasts and matched onto the taxiway network, a median 1.2 m from each measured fix. Runway use comes straight from the data, with departures on 25R and 24L and arrivals on 24R and 25L.

Aircraft stop transmitting on stand, so one that goes quiet on the ground is assumed to be at its gate and drawn in dimmer gray. The passenger count is the one modeled figure, using fleet-weighted seat counts by airline and aircraft type at a flat 84% load factor, with cargo and business aviation excluded. The total, 186,060, runs about a tenth under the airport’s own average of 209,600 a day.