Overview
- LINXS filed a breach-of-contract lawsuit against the City of Los Angeles and Los Angeles World Airports, saying the agency shifted blame, changed drawings and refused compensation or time extensions for multiple delays.
- The company says repairs to a degraded metering cabinet required a partial power shutdown from February through July 2025 that halted critical systems testing for 141 days and was outside LINXS’s contract scope.
- LINXS warns that an October contractual deadline could let project lenders demand immediate repayment, which the contractor says could make it insolvent and stop work on the SkyLink People Mover.
- LAWA says it is reviewing the complaint, will not comment on pending litigation and remains focused on completing testing and delivering a safe, reliable SkyLink system.
- The 2.25‑mile, roughly $3.3 billion electric train is still in testing with no firm opening date, and past settlements and schedule extensions have already cost LAWA hundreds of millions as the project prepares for major events such as the 2028 Olympics.