DFS Duty Free
Hours
5:30 am - 11:30 pm
Alcohol
Yes
Finding it
DFS Duty Free is in Departures in Terminal 6 at Los Angeles International Airport. It is airside, past the security checkpoint, so allow for the queue before you count on it.
Terminal 6 has 12 places to eat and 9 shops in this directory; the earliest opens at 4:15am.
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 6's DFS branch opens earliest of the airport's duty-free counters, at 5:30am, and stays open until 11:30pm, the longest window of the group. It shares the departures hall with Belkin, Los Angeles Magazine News and M.Fredric rather than a food concession, so it is the one shopping stop in this stretch built around fragrance and spirits instead of clothing or electronics. Being one of several DFS locations at LAX, its stock mirrors what's carried at the other terminals, but the early open here suits Terminal 6's first bank of departures better than any of the others.
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 6
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.