Updated. MSY, flew out Dec 26th.

Here at MSY ON 27th. The entire baggage check and screening system is shut the frick down. Bags are stacked 20 deep at the check-in gates. They are telling travelers to bring their large checked bags through TSA and then to check them at the boarding gates.
A billion dollar NOLA disaster!

Ever heard of "Carry On"

that's true but I've been seeing online that MSY's baggage failures are fairly unprecedented.

I've heard so many great and terrible reviews on MSY over the last two weeks I have no idea what to believe.

Flying to ATL tomorrow on Spirit, boarding at 10:30. Trying to decide how early to leave Lafayette.

Any advice?

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Airports having problems with baggage isn't limited to NOLA.

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At the Southwest check-in counter alone, there were easily over 100 checked and tagged bags piled up against the counter where customers are supposed to be checking in. The conveyor belt moves about 3 feet every 10 minutes, the rest of the time, it is at a complete standstill. And there are hundreds more customers in line to add their bags to the pile.
In the TSA line, there is a pinheaded moron randomly opening and closing the retractable belt stanchions like he's playing some kind of real-life pacman game.

3 more guys in MSY uniforms hitting on the women coming into the checkpoint area.

Then a fire alarm went off that the travelers were told to ignore, while police and other staff tried to hold open the security doors that were trying to automatically lock.

Maybe that's not a NOLA thing to you. But it certainly seems typical to me.