Airport Delays

[TomK]

OMG people had to go to the airport 2 hours early, it's not the end of the world and it doesn't justifiy having a multimillion dollar machine on standby in case of an outage.

Perhaps the title of the thread should be changed. It currently says "Airport Delays". That's why people have brought in other things that create delays at an airport. This was brought about by the OP who now complains about responses.

The airport is working. There have been delays and there will always be delays but in this case, the delays to passengers were minimal. Maybe it took over three days to replace equipment but passengers continued to leave and arrive. Try going to a small airport elsewhere and find your flight canceled because the airplane is broken. Your delay will be much longer than anything a broken baggage scanner will create.

And again, who will pay to have every spare part available everywhere, all of the time, plus the technicians, to be at every airport? You will, the passenger, and flying will no longer be affordable.