Many people share the opinion that LAX is an abomination of an airport from the passengers' viewpoint. Apart from the above-mentioned absence of in-transit facilities, the whole place has a run-down feel about it, and it was irritating
before all the post-9/11 security umm... enhancements. Now, it's just a nightmare and a political football like a number of US airports, sadly. You might want to postpone reading
this until
after you've been there
