Tuesday, June 22, 2021

LAXit Blues

Appropriately, the lyric, "...you don"t know what you've got til it's gone..." is from Joni Mitchell's Big Yellow Taxi.  At LAX, you once could exit the airport board a taxi, shuttle, UBER or LYFT and be on your way home.

Until construction is completed, sometime in 2023, you now board a shuttle to an offsite location called LAXit.   From there you connect to your transportation home.  This would be but a minor inconvenience, except that the airport missed the obvious.  Passengers have luggage.  

If you are returning from a long weekend with a smile and a carryon, you are probably OK.  But on these full buses, there is little room to store full sized luggage.  LAX must reconfigure the shuttles.