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Posted on 11/11/19 at 8:57 am to Golfer
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Can’t speak for the issues with uber/lyft line, though. Only thing I can think of is a capacity issue vs. the previous setup.
Folks whose IQ was over 80 could have figured that building a dedicated road for uber/lyft/taxi to enter and exit may have been needed. And perhaps not putting the staging area on the opposite side of the airport from arrivals. And having a curb wide enough to accommodate those waiting without blocking other people. Easy to build when you start from scratch. Impossible now.
Posted on 11/11/19 at 9:03 am to dietcoke7
To me, the food options only make sense for hubs. There are certain hub airports I go to that I look forward to certain places to eat while killing time.
I didn't think MSY was a transfer airport. I bet very few fly in and fly out same day without leaving terminal.
I didn't think MSY was a transfer airport. I bet very few fly in and fly out same day without leaving terminal.
Posted on 11/11/19 at 9:06 am to Napoleon
Msy old food options absolutely blew.
Posted on 11/11/19 at 9:06 am to Buck Dancer
US park has a lot near the new terminal. I'd go with them.
Posted on 11/11/19 at 9:07 am to Dire Wolf
Also early flights or late flights nothing was open. Now everything opens at 3am and stays open for the last flight.
Posted on 11/11/19 at 9:08 am to Napoleon
It’s not a huge connecting airport. Pretty much SW is the only airline that you can connect through MSY. But it doesn’t mean outbound and arriving passengers don’t eat there.
Case in point. I flew out last night around 7p on a non stop flight. Too early to eat dinner at my house at 4:30 before I left, too late to eat dinner when I would get to my hotel around 11p.
So I grabbed dinner at 6:15 after I went through security.
Case in point. I flew out last night around 7p on a non stop flight. Too early to eat dinner at my house at 4:30 before I left, too late to eat dinner when I would get to my hotel around 11p.
So I grabbed dinner at 6:15 after I went through security.
Posted on 11/11/19 at 9:21 am to Golfer
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It’s not a huge connecting airport. Pretty much SW is the only airline that you can connect through MSY. But it doesn’t mean outbound and arriving passengers don’t eat there.
Case in point. I flew out last night around 7p on a non stop flight. Too early to eat dinner at my house at 4:30 before I left, too late to eat dinner when I would get to my hotel around 11p.
So I grabbed dinner at 6:15 after I went through security.
And there are a fairly large number of folks with flight anxiety that need to get there early. Add charter groups to that mix and there is decent demand for meals.
Posted on 11/11/19 at 9:24 am to Anaximander
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And there are a fairly large number of folks with flight anxiety that need to get there early. Add charter groups to that mix and there is decent demand for meals.
Or any flight that gets delayed
Can’t tell you how many times I’ve been hungover in that airport and gone hungry cause zatarains was the only spot open.
Posted on 11/11/19 at 9:25 am to Sayre
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a big tube of toothpaste I'd forgotten in my travel bad, and a couple other items.
I've been flying a lot the past three years, and that was the most inept security checkpoint I've ever encountered.
Same thing happened to me over the weekend in Birmingham. Probably more common than you think.
Posted on 11/11/19 at 10:01 am to Sayre
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flew out of the old terminal on the 3rd. T
The last night the TSA stuff supposedly wasn't even powered on.
Posted on 11/11/19 at 10:02 am to TigerNlc
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Same thing happened to me over the weekend in Birmingham. Probably more common than you think.
I travel with a 5oz toothpaste tube. I never take my toiletry bag out and the only time I've been stopped is when my 3oz shaving cream can is laying the wrong way and the scanner shows it looking like a 10" pipe bomb.
Posted on 11/11/19 at 10:04 am to Golfer
I'm scheduling a trip in an out in December currently. Going to get there 3-4 hours early just in case. I'll get a day pass to a club and get nice and drunk
Posted on 11/11/19 at 10:11 am to MrJimBeam
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I'm scheduling a trip in an out in December currently. Going to get there 3-4 hours early just in case. I'll get a day pass to a club and get nice and drunk
It seems 2 hours is sufficient according to the article in the OP.
Posted on 11/11/19 at 10:12 am to MrLSU
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“If it is like this on a Sunday morning, you don’t want to be anywhere near this place during Mardi Gras,”
Hopefully this gets worked out before then because I'm coming the two weekends before MG
Posted on 11/11/19 at 10:40 am to Napoleon
the new short term & long term garages are connected to the terminal. they are so much better than the old garages
from the short term garage you are inside terminal in like two minutes
from the short term garage you are inside terminal in like two minutes
Posted on 11/11/19 at 10:45 am to cgrand
The short term garage at the old terminal was pretty close.
Posted on 11/11/19 at 10:57 am to fightin tigers
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getting there at 5:00 for a 7:00 flight. I don't know anyone who has ever done that.
Unless you are flying out of small airports like BR, two hours in advance is the normal recommendation. Why be stressed if you hit a TSA delay?
Posted on 11/11/19 at 11:08 am to islandtiger
C'mon man; we are supposed to be getting up in arms about these unreasonable delays.
Posted on 11/11/19 at 11:10 am to Golfer
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I think the issues at security and behind it are due to the shared-service nature of all three concourses vs. the separate ones before.
Previously, you could easily staff security and restaurants because you knew the times and number of flights you’d see in your concourse. Now, that’s a crapshoot. They’ll figure it out...hopefully.
"Old MSY" struggled with TSA staffing... that was one of the reasons they went to this one-entry model. Under the old model, you would have, for example, crazy lines at B, but C was wide open, etc.
The number of flights, travelers, etc, hasn't changed in a week. So you would think, ok, last Sunday, we had 7 lines open across 3 concourses, so we need to have enough workers for 7 lines today as well.
But I'm guessing the cheapskates at the TSA are trying to get by with 5 sets.
This whole "let's have all these lines together so we can open and close them quickly as needed" only works if you have enough staff on shift to open as many lines as you need.
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