DFS Duty Free
Finding it
DFS Duty Free is in Departures in Terminal 4 at Los Angeles International Airport. It is airside, past the security checkpoint, so allow for the queue before you count on it.
Terminal 4 has 3 places to eat and 6 shops in this directory; the earliest opens at 7am.
Hours against the security queue
Across the week, LAX security runs longest around 12pm at a median of 20 minutes, and lightest around 1am at 2 minutes.
Queue figures are medians from FlyIndex's LAX wait-time record, not a live reading.
About this location
Terminal 4's DFS counter keeps the shortest hours of LAX's duty-free branches, opening at 6am and closing at 8pm — several hours earlier than the counters at Terminals 2, 6 and 7. It sits in the departures hall near Entertainment Weekly, Hollywood Style and Hudson Books, a run of newsstands and shops rather than restaurants. Anyone on a later Terminal 4 departure should assume this counter is shut rather than count on a stop before boarding; it is one of several DFS locations across LAX, but the only one on this list that closes before evening.
One of 5 DFS Duty Free locations at Los Angeles International Airport (Terminal 2, Terminal 4, Terminal 5, Terminal 6, Terminal 7).
Other options in Terminal 4
All past the same checkpoint, so you can reach them without clearing security again.
Official Travel Resources
1 verified external links from airport operators and U.S. agencies.