![]() At this Centurion Lounge, I love the wine tasting dispenser, and usually follow my first wine, with a visit to it, to sample tastes of several more. Well, so much for a couple of leisurely glasses of wine. We had our Chardonnays in hand, when the United App alerted us to a change: we were no longer going out of Gate 74, but instead, Gate 65 - all of the way at the end of the East Pier, and here we were, sitting to the west of the West Pier - a rather long walk was in our cards. We entered, and decided to sit at the bar, since there were two stools right there. Unfortunately, that partnership did not last very long. By “very beginning,” I mean that we were invited to their grand opening, when Chef Christopher Kostow was signing his cookbook, as he was the Consulting Chef for this lounge. This is a small, but attractive and convenient AMEX Centurion Lounge, and one, which we have visited from the very beginning. We still had plenty of time, before our departing flight, scheduled out of Gate 74, and as the wines with dinner had not been exciting, went to the Centurion Club, as we knew we could do better. It also does not include bottled water from flight services on aircrafts.We were flying out of SFO T3, in July, heading home to Phoenix, and had just had dinner across the concourse from the AMEX Centurion Lounge, across from Gate 75. Currently, the ban does not include other bottled drinks outside of water (though that may be coming). This ban includes events happening at the airport as well as vending machines. LAX has recently announced a ban on the sale of single-use water bottles, effective immediately. So I don’t personally have a problem with this, though it would be a requirement for me that there actually BE sufficient water fountains and water bottle filling stations throughout the airport, something I’m not quite sure is the case at LAX. (SEE ALSO: Do You Really NEED To Eat And Drink In The Airport?) Either I am bringing my own water bottle, or I’m drinking out of the water fountains. Personally, I almost never buy or drink from single-use water bottles. Perhaps that is something that is coming down the road – that’s what SFO did a few years ago – first banned the single-use water bottles and then followed that up with bans on other drinks a few years later. Many people were also wondering why you would ban water bottles but not other single-use bottles and cans such as soft drinks or Gatorade. ![]() Employees don’t want to pay for over-priced water either Bottle fillers were installed pre-security. There is one bottle filler in the food court and it’s not filtered or cold. TBIT doesn’t even have functioning water fountains. The ones we do have are not very sanitary either There are not ample refill stations in T6, not even close. ![]() To recap, the airport that generates 15.7 metric tons of carbon each day just outlawed plastic bottles To say that the comments on the Facebook above were not supportive would be an understatement. The explanation from the airport authority were that there are plenty of water bottle filling stations throughout the airport, though that is a disputed fact by anyone who is ever actually FLOWN through LAX. LAX falls under the Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA) commission, and LAWA has a sustainability initiative, including the goal to make its airports entirely zero-waste by 2045. The ban on the sale of single-use water bottles is, as you might have guessed, part of a sustainability initiative. Why Is LAX Banning Single-Use Water Bottles LAX (as far as I could tell) now becomes the 2nd major airport to ban the sale of single-use water bottles, after SFO, which banned the sale of single-use plastic water bottles in 2019 and included other types of beverages as of 2021. I only saw the announcement a couple of weeks ago but apparently (As of the JFacebook post above), it went into effect at the end of June, so it is already in place as of the writing of this post.
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