Airport Delays

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One would think, at least if there was any modicum of competency, that the shelves would be filled with every spare part needed to repair any possible problems immediately. 

At least one would think that. 

https://bigislandnow.com/2024/01/02/long...till-down/

The only practical way to keep all the spare parts at the airport is to reconfigure the airport for a larger checkpoint that can accommodate another screening lane.  (If you're having all the spare parts at the airport, you want them in an assembled machine that doesn't require a technician to fly in to use it).  I know Southwest pushed for that and was getting some traction and then COVID hit and suddenly the checkpoints were empty and that idea died on the vine.  Now that the passengers are all back, at the end of the day nobody likes 2 hour waits at an airport line but historically that hasn't been unusual in a lot of airports, we've been spoiled only seeing it when something breaks down.

Everyone knows how much I love bureaucracies!  Imagine the state, local, and federal bureaucracies having to come together in a giant Thunderdome quagmire to modify an airport where the state owns the facilities, TSA owns the equipment, GSA has to approve any real estate contracts, and competing airlines and vendors want their agendas implemented. And everybody is pointing their fingers at who they think should pay for what, how long the leases should be, contractor bids get submitted and then have to go through an appeals process.  FEMA probably has to setup an incident command center to manage the millions and millions of miles of red tape, complete with a team of CFR interpreters and Red Cross volunteers passing out bottles of water to keep the bureaucrats hydrated as they work late into the early afternoon; except for weekends, holidays, sick days, annual leave, paternity leave, and diversity training days.  TEN BUREAUCRACIES ENTER, ONLY ONE LEAVES!