Which is why I asked the questions. It's easy to blame the city/airport but the ramp area around the gate is US' responsibility. I know in winters past there would be pallets of granulated urea stacked under the overhangs of the concourses (literally tons of it) and after a storm like this one the ramp areas would be white with the residue.
Just wondering if that was the case this time.
Jim
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JIM...(Boeing Boy), as he is Soooo many times is RIGHT, that in PHL, US operates like an airline that wants to be the LAUGHING STOCK of the Industry, an quite frankly......"IS".
Now I'm sure a lot of US people won't believe me when I say, that I DO NOT have an "ax to grind, with US".
The sad reality is, that US's #1 money making hub, is in a city that it's Operations is BADLY broken, the city SUCKS, and the physical airport itself, is "unfixable".
Similiar to a body with incurable CANCER, kept alive for "some time", with heavy medications.
The CEO, division manager, station manager, ramp/CS manager...DOES NOT exist, at ANY airline,ANYWHERE, that could operate PHL effeciently !!!!!!!!!!!
Oddly enough, EWR is almost in a similiar situation,(Not enough runways) but they had more room to build their terminals. I marvel often, that CO has been, and continue's to be as successful with their Hub, given the physical constraints there.
If you look at the major cities,(and airports) along I-95, from BOS to DCA,poor PHL stands out like a "sore thumb"
BOS is 99% maxed out, but they have the luxury of reliever airports, like MHT(NH), and PVD(RI), a mere 50 miles away in either direction.
NYC/EWR have several reliever airports, like HPN/ISP/SWF, not to mention all the runways at JFK.
BWI still has room to grow(runways and terminal space, if need be),...and DCA has IAD, who has a #### load of room, for possible futher expansion.
NH/BB's