DCA has approx 105 mainline/republic departures and approx 100 express. We have approx 60% of all flights at DCA. Because of DC road closures many agents spent the night in the terminal on company supplied cots and were also fed. The problem was bus loads of pax being dropped off simultaneously and overwhelming the operation. You would go from 20 in line to 300 in a matter of minutes with loads of bags. Also the TSA was less than efficient in moving pax through security.
Video of meltdown at DCA
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I didn't hear any TSA complaints.
Nice crime scene tape. Was the TSA slow with that?
Nice crime scene tape. Was the TSA slow with that?
How about a little brain matter here. You are going to an event that was hyped up by the news to expect 3 or 4 million people. You get there to DCA a day or two before. Probably no big deal. And now you expect to leave at 9 in the morning the day after. Did not a light bulb go off. Nothing is happening the day after. This mass is wanting to leave the next day. Maybe I'll get an open jaw ticket and limo to IAD or BWI to get home. Oh, but there is the cost of the limo, and maybe some extra few bucks for the open jaw. I don't want to pay that. Well?
Look, it was a mess there, the day after. And I'm not saying that US could't have done a better job. Of course. Lets say every position at check in was maned. The result would have been the same. The line for TSA would have out the door, down the ramp, and into C.C.
I've non reved down there with 5 of us for 4 of these events to watch the parade. Got down and back with a little planing on the days planed.
The rope was cut in the fall of '78. Plan ahead.
Look, it was a mess there, the day after. And I'm not saying that US could't have done a better job. Of course. Lets say every position at check in was maned. The result would have been the same. The line for TSA would have out the door, down the ramp, and into C.C.
I've non reved down there with 5 of us for 4 of these events to watch the parade. Got down and back with a little planing on the days planed.
The rope was cut in the fall of '78. Plan ahead.
More trained experience agents would have moved more customers. This is a fact airport management 101.
Then it would have been Obama’s fault
Per PineyBob
The "law of unintended consequences" (also called the "law of unforeseen consequences") states that any purposeful action will produce some unintended consequences. A classic example is a bypass — a road built to relieve traffic congestion on a congested road — that attracts new development and with it more traffic, resulting in two congested streets instead of one.
This maxim is not a scientific law; it is more a warning against the hubristic belief that humans can fully control the world around them. Stated in other words, each cause has more than one effect, and these effects will invariably include at least one unforeseen side effect. The unintended side effect can potentially be more significant than any of the intended effects.
