Tips for flying into LAD:
- Try to sit as far forward as you can in your cabin, to ensure you get off the plane earlier.
- Make sure you have your yellow-fever certificate to hand (I have travelled with people who forgot to bring it - boy was that entertaining)
- Get your YF certificate stamped as quickly as possible
- Join a queue for immigration & watch out you don't accidentally join the diplomatic line (the one on the far left when I last went through)
- Once you're through immigration, pick up your bag (which will probably get through before you do) and make sure you have the luggage receipt (the sticky thing on your boarding pass) as you exit, as they check that your receipt matches the label on your luggage
- Be prepared for someone to do a customs screening after this point
- (Hopefully) meet your driver - sometimes, depending on who you're travelling for, your driver will meet you at one of the points above. Certainly the oilco drivers tend to.