Ruined a perfectly great concept with the characters

I hated LAX, which is not to say I started that way. I had greater hopes since LAX would have made for a terrific location involving action, intrigue, crime drama, medical drama, espionage, you name it. I know that the real LAX is hamstrung by not having a large, capacious, luxurious mercantile business and dining area that it should have for its size.

The show was ruined by two absolutely unlikeable main characters, Harley Random and De Souza, played respectively by Heather Locklear and Blair Underwood. I can't say that both actors were in themselves unlikeable but the screenwriter and director made their characters despiccable. These two main characters constantly went at each other like smart alecks with big mouths, trying to put each other down and trying to one up the other because of over-weening personal ambition and sour personalities. The show boiled down to these two characters backstabbing one another while being forced to cooperate. Each episode found both ignoring their lesson of mutual cooperation being ignored as a failure of career ambition since mutual cooperation canceled out the other's achievement. In order to advance to the position of director, one had to lose. It aggravated both characters that they had to cooperate to solve crises, which they would do, grudgingly and reluctantly.

The screenwriter and director may have thought that personal and professional conflict at the outset would make for a great drama show. But they were proven wrong. The show may have been more likeable if both characters were supportive and mutually cooperative from the start where both came to the other's rescue and in doing so solved a airport crisis.