re: NOLA: "New airport 'like a Mercedes with flat tires'"

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TSA, which may be fixable if they fire all the personnel, is less efficient at peak times.

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How much control does the local airport board have over TSA staffing? I'm asking because I want to know where to direct my anger. Of all the issues, this seems like the least excusable. You know damn good and well what the passenger counts are, there is simply no excuse for not being properly staffed at the checkpoint. If you know traffic counts ebb and flow throughout the day, then you schedule shifts and breaks to reflect that. But if the local TSA management doesn't care... what can be done, really?

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A lot of the problems seem to be the folks they have hired to work. This city hiring practices look like Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman having anal sex in a burning building. They have zero quality control nor do they care.

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As I said earlier, the vast, vast majority of airport employees aren't subject to the city hiring practices, because they aren't city employees. TSA does their own thing, the airport board hires the major concessionaires who then hire their own employees to run retail/food/beverage/parking/shuttles, etc. Airlines and rental care companies hire their own people, etc.

It's indictive of a lot of problems in this place. Our employee base sucks, and our management base is worse. The manager that yesterday was running your local shitty Popeyes is today running a retail shop at the airport. They don't know how to hire employees, staff, order supplies, etc.

Having more food/retail options just means more shitty unqualified managers and employees, sadly.