LAX Advice Lacks Logic

* Why is it that Los Angeles International Airport’s management cannot apply the same logic to its decision-making and press statements that is used by the users of its airports [“Don’t Let Guard Down in Airports,” Global Savvy, Nov. 15]?

Tom Winfrey of the firm that manages LAX and other airports suggests that new arrivals should only use taxis and vans that bear a decal issued by the local Department of Transportation. First of all, “new” arrivals do not read the Los Angeles Times, therefore would not benefit from Winfrey’s advice.

Second, whether a first-time or seasoned user of LAX, who has the time or inclination to scan the body of a cab or van for an official decal, especially when arriving late at night after a grueling transcontinental or transoceanic flight?

GORDON L. FROEDE

Cheviot Hills