I see in another thread some grumbling about using airport
abbreviations instead of placenames. In general I agree that
it is appropriate to give the city name first, then use the
abbreviation in following remarks. In this case the topic
was lousy public transportation - and you could substitute
the name of just about any medium-sized city (with airline
service, and the story would be the same. I was also in a
hurry at the time of the previous post.

Be that as it may, the places I was referring to are as
follows:

LAX - Los Angeles CA
SFO - San Francisco, CA
SBA - Santa Barbara, CA
RDM - Redmond, OR
SAC - Sacramento, CA
ACV - Arcata, CA
FOT - Fortuna, CA (no airline service, but an Amtrak stop
- served by ACV).

David Johnson