Sept. 30, 2025 7:30 AM PT
To the editor: Like many Angelenos, I keep away from Los Angeles Worldwide Airport just like the plague (“LAX has fallen in global airport rankings. Will a pre-Olympics transformation help?,” Sept. 25). Many years of mismanagement have turned what was as soon as a handy airport into an utter catastrophe. It was dangerous sufficient that the Inexperienced Line (now the C Line) by no means truly received there. The misbegotten LAX-it (who considered that identify?) may need labored if it had been deployed with satisfactory signage and curbside advisors to information vacationers, baggage assist and a plan to verify folks might get into taxis and rideshares promptly. As a substitute, a single expertise with that abomination is sufficient to make one swear off patronizing your complete airport.
I’m assured that the much-delayed Automated Folks Mover (once more, who named it?) will likely be an equal failure. If it’s ever accomplished, there isn’t a approach it should “whisk” vacationers wherever; as an alternative, I discover it extra doubtless that it’ll run occasionally and at sluggish speeds, requiring a number of practice modifications and lengthy walks to get wherever helpful.
The plans to embellish the terminals with browsing and street-culture photos, or including a Koreatown-inspired meals court docket, are simply placing lipstick on a very ugly pig. No person goes to LAX for art work or overpriced meals; they’re attempting to get to or from a gate rapidly and simply whereas dragging their baggage.
Sure, LAX wants fixing. However based mostly on this story and previous efficiency, I significantly doubt that the present administration is as much as the duty.
Geoff Kuenning, Claremont
