re: New MSY in game thread

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I’m here now heading west and traffic trying to get to the airport is backed up to Williams

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Waze tells me right now to get from my office in Gretna to the terminal, is 29 min if I get off at Williams, and 30 min if I get off at Loyola. Pre-airport, that's a 25 min drive in no traffic middle of day, to the Loyola exit.

Are all 3 lanes backed up, or just the right lane?

Mitch is the gift that keeps on giving to the city of New Orleans

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They had 100 people on one flight whose luggage was left

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What airline? Was it an originator or a turn around? What did the airline say? That is a lot of bags (if everyone checked a bag) to leave behind.

Just talked to a buddy out there........ he said that the 'new baggage system' is kicking all the bags to 1 or 2 of the 4 belts.

Also told me the number of bags they missed yesterday..... i cant comprehend that amount.

Coworker sent me a text a little while ago. Got off interstate at Loyola and was parked in long term parking in less than 10 minutes. Security line took about 5 minutes. Not bad at all according to him.

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Arrivals are where the meltdowns are occurring

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Agreed.

All the pissing and complaining before it opened had to do with getting to the airport.

No one really thought about leaving the airport. Kinda took that for granted.

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Sounds like, aside from the checked baggage issue, 

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Sad thing is if its the same type of system used in other airports (when I worked in Pittsburgh they had something similar) this never should have been a problem on opening day/week. The 'dry runs' should have worked the kinks out before opening.

Hopefully there is enough time for most of the kinks to work out before Thanksgiving. If the checked bag system isn't fixed by then i would strongly considering carry ons.

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They said they only had so many scanners working. Did they not move the scanners from the old terminal?

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Apparently it's a mix of old and new. The ones from the old terminal are coming over but it takes time to move and install them, and I guess most of them couldn't start the moving process until after Tuesday night.

Apparently there is surge pricing issues at the airport, which I have never seen.

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I can't believe more people would be using the services now as opposed to last week, so I wonder if all of the traffic at the airport and problems with the lines, is somehow tricking the pricing system?

After reading this article I am convinced that the people that were involved in this new airport thing are intellectually disabled. If they expected there to be issues with like the system that puts bags onto the right plane; they should have tried closing terminals or parts of terminals and moving airlines to the new terminal gradually over a couple of months instead of all at once. That way they could work the little things like making sure that bags get onto the right planes, the traffic patterns, ride sharing services, etc without it affecting everyone.