The Sunday after Thanksgiving is one of the busiest travel days for traffic around Los Angeles International Airport, an LAX official said.
"We're expecting a total of 120,000 vehicles at LAX by the end of the day," LAX spokesman Charles Pannunzio said.
As of 4 p.m., spotters for LAX determined it would take motorists about "22 minutes to go completely around the upper level of the airport, which is the departure level and about 14 minutes to circle the lower level, which is for arrivals," Pannunzio said.
Pannunzio also said that in order to facilitate a more orderly flow of traffic, airport officials have closed the eastway and westway shortcuts across the airport.
He also said they have closed the southbound lanes of Sepulveda Boulevard at the airport so that motorists leaving the airport must exit on Century Boulevard.
There is no word on how long that exit route would remain in place.
Pannunzio also suggested that people departing LAX tonight add an extra half hour to wait time that is normally two hours for domestic flights and three hours for international flights.
