The Baggage Troubles Have Begun

[CLTBWIDAYSYR]

From today's Charlotte Observer...

...Many fliers, however, arrived in Charlotte yesterday without their luggage. Several hundred bags were lined up outside US Airways' baggage claim office this morning, (Jerry) Orr said. He said the pile of bags was similar to amount seen after a worker shortage around Christmas 2004. The office usually holds about 75 bags, he said.

This is exactly what I feared.

 

[FM2436]

From today's Charlotte Observer...

...Many fliers, however, arrived in Charlotte yesterday without their luggage. Several hundred bags were lined up outside US Airways' baggage claim office this morning, (Jerry) Orr said. He said the pile of bags was similar to amount seen after a worker shortage around Christmas 2004. The office usually holds about 75 bags, he said.

This is exactly what I feared.

What's frustrating about this is who is causing these missed bag problems. Is it an apparent understaffing by US Airways or is TSA not processing the security screening of the bags fast enough, or is it a combination of both?

 

[Jimmy Neutron]

What's frustrating about this is who is causing these missed bag problems. Is it an apparent understaffing by US Airways or is TSA not processing the security screening of the bags fast enough, or is it a combination of both?

And as usual, our millionaire club management will report everything is just business as usual and if anything does leak out to the public they will paint the TSA/Security/Terrorist plot scheme as the culprit, just like they make exuses in PHL just about every day.

But we all know that's just not the case, don't we? :blink:

 

[Harry Callahan]

That is an understatement. It will get MUCH WORSE.
Again due to weather, part timers were put on mandatory overtime. They were very po. We can not keep people as it is now,

 

[gso-crew]

GSO took 15 CLT diversions last night, with only a skeleton crew on duty to handle them. Then three or four of them cancelled. There's no way that many aircraft should be dumped into one station. I think it happened because the aircraft belonged to 5 different companies (Mesa, AW, CHAQ, US, PSA) and no one knew what the other was doing. Bags everywhere, a truck load of CLT local bags were quickly shipped via truck this morning at 6am to CLT. Passengers left scrambling for hotels at their own expense because it was all weather related. Ugly!

 

[a320av8r]

GSO took 15 CLT diversions last night, with only a skeleton crew on duty to handle them. Then three or four of them cancelled. There's no way that many aircraft should be dumped into one station. I think it happened because the aircraft belonged to 5 different companies (Mesa, AW, CHAQ, US, PSA) and no one knew what the other was doing. Bags everywhere, a truck load of CLT local bags were quickly shipped via truck this morning at 6am to CLT. Passengers left scrambling for hotels at their own expense because it was all weather related. Ugly!

Or maybe since the Majic arrival goes right over GSO, that makes it a convenient diversion airport? And- the weather really was really really bad! Summertime in the Carolinas.

Storms knock out power, cause flooding
KYTJA WEIR
kweir@charlotteobserver.com
Scattered storms knocked out power to thousands Thursday night, dropping heavy rain that flooded parts of Gaston County and lightning that extinguished Charlotte firefighters' communications' system.

About 9 p.m. a bolt struck a power source on North Myers Street, Charlotte city officials said, knocking out the Fire Department's dispatch system.

Firefighters used hand-held radios to send out calls instead. But authorities did not expect it to cause any delays to emergency responses.

Other lightning strikes also caused problems. By about 10:45 p.m., 4,500 Duke Energy customers had lost power in the Charlotte region, with some 3,200 of those in Mecklenburg County, said spokesman Doug Sharpe. He said crews planned to work through the night to restore electricity.

Flooding also closed part of Sugar Creek Road near the Hidden Valley neighborhood in northeast Charlotte, Charlotte-Mecklenburg police said.

But in Gaston County, conditions were worse.

The parking lots at the Eastridge Mall and Gaston Memorial Hospital were flooded, said emergency communications supervisor Joann Yarbro.

Customers at Chuck E. Cheese's on Cox Road were trapped inside, she said, and police had to assist some people stuck inside stalled vehicles.

No one was reported injured and waters had started to recede by about 11:10 p.m., Yarbro said, but emergency crews were eyeing another approaching storm.

 

[gso-crew]

Or maybe since the Majic arrival goes right over GSO, that makes it a convenient diversion airport? And- the weather really was really really bad! Summertime in the Carolinas.

6 or 7 maybe ..... but twice that many?

 

[john john]

GSO took 15 CLT diversions last night, with only a skeleton crew on duty to handle them. Then three or four of them cancelled. There's no way that many aircraft should be dumped into one station. I think it happened because the aircraft belonged to 5 different companies (Mesa, AW, CHAQ, US, PSA) and no one knew what the other was doing. Bags everywhere, a truck load of CLT local bags were quickly shipped via truck this morning at 6am to CLT. Passengers left scrambling for hotels at their own expense because it was all weather related. Ugly!

Ones the crews and dispatchers here were one is going watch out….

 

[CLTBWIDAYSYR]

CAE took diversions last night as well. I know that TPA-CLT landed there.

 

[ItsJustAJob]

Ones the crews and dispatchers here were one is going watch out….

What? :huh:

 

[a320av8r]

What? :huh:

I think he said "once the crews and dispatchers hear where one is going, watch out". ?