From my understanding it's more of a "what's the most well known airport". Google LA is in Venice, so it's closest airport should be SMO, it's still referred to in corp speak and machine naming as LAX.
The point of naming convention isnt to be painfully pedantically correct, like this comment. It's to provide a useful guidepost to humans, who know LAX but don't know about SMO.
Why didn't you mention ICAO codes, they'd be more universally correct anyways, right? KSMO, KLAX?
Why didn't you mention ICAO codes, they'd be more universally correct anyways, right? KSMO, KLAX?