DFS Duty Free
Finding it
DFS Duty Free is in Departures in Terminal 7 at Los Angeles International Airport. It is airside, past the security checkpoint, so allow for the queue before you count on it.
Terminal 7 has 10 places to eat and 6 shops in this directory; the earliest opens at 4am.
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
This is one of several DFS Duty Free counters across LAX, and the Terminal 7 branch keeps shorter hours than most of them, closing at 10pm against the 11:30pm or later closes posted at Terminals 2 and 6. It sits in the departures hall next to Bartel's Harley-Davidson gear and Book Soup, with Hudson News a few steps off for reading material instead of spirits. Travelers on Terminal 7's later flights should plan a stop before the 10pm cutoff rather than count on picking up duty-free after a delay, since nothing else in this concourse carries the same tax-free range.
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 7
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.