LA Essentials
Finding it
LA Essentials is in North Concourse in Terminal B at Los Angeles International Airport. It is airside, past the security checkpoint, so allow for the queue before you count on it.
Terminal B has 20 places to eat and 26 shops in this directory; the earliest opens at 12am.
Hours against the security queue
LA Essentials opens at 5am and closes at 1:30am. FlyIndex's wait-time data puts the typical LAX checkpoint queue at 9 minutes around 5am.
Across the week, LAX security runs longest around 12pm at a median of 20 minutes, and lightest around 1am at 2 minutes. This location is already open before those queues build.
Queue figures are medians from FlyIndex's LAX wait-time record, not a live reading.
About this location
Filed under its old branding, this news-and-gifts shop sits in Terminal B's North Concourse, near Be Relax and Book Soup Bookstore rather than the Great Hall entrance. It opens at 5am and runs until 1:30am, one of the later closing times among Terminal B's shops, which makes it a viable stop for arrivals landing close to 1am as well as the terminal's first departures. LAX doesn't have a second location of this store, so North Concourse is the only place in the terminal to find it.
Other options in Terminal B
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.