Airport Delays

[HiloJulie]

First and foremost, several of your responses to my posts claim that I said people were delayed three and one half days. I never said that. The airport baggage scanning machines were down for a total of three and one half days. Thats being quite disingenuous to say the least.

I made it very clear that I wasn't claiming you said passengers were delayed over three days. All I did was to emphasize that the delays to passengers were relatively small. The same or even worse delays to passengers would happen if some other piece of equipment had broken down, such as an important part of a plane. You can't plan for everything.

The delays were several hours per passenger per flight and went on for three and one half days until the parts arrived and repairs made.

And, once yet again, to be clear, I am not discussing spare jet parts. (Having said that, no for-profit airline would ever, excepting catastrophic failure, leave a 717/737 on the tarmac for 3 and one half days waiting for spare part(s)). 

I am discussing the machines that scan passengers checked and carry-on baggage, which is the equipment that failed and further, has failed prior to this incident with more or less the same 3 to 5 day window to get spare parts and fix the issue.

This is one aspect of airport operations that could be planned for, quickly if not near immediately fixed and provide passenger safety. 

And at a reasonable cost.