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Old Jan 16, 2013, 7:42 am
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Originally Posted by Dreamworks
I loved this quote from LAWA:

"Obviously, Terminal 1 is pretty dog-eared," said Gina Marie Lindsey, executive director of Los Angeles World Airports. "I want to manage expectations here. While $400 million is a lot of money, it doesn't result in a brand new, sparkling, gleaming, terminal. But it will make some very important functional improvements."
It would take a brand new airport to make that airport sparkling and gleaming. LAX is such a dump. It's an embarrassment that LAX is the first impression a lot of inbound TPAC pax get of America.

Not that places like IAD, PHL, and SFO are much better, but nothing's as bad as LAX.
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