I just flew back from LGA this morning after having a very nice time Saturday in New York City. I was scheduled out at 6:25AM. I was at the airport at 4:45AM and the line for concourse was huge, I would estimate over 100 people in the line. I first went to the CO PC which is pre-security
and came back to the line at 5:30AM. Line was still long. A guy in front of me told the line monitor (not TSA) he had a flight in 10 minuntes to IAH and she told him (not very good at english) no problem, you will make it as you will clear in 5 minuntes. I told the guy to just go to the front of the line but he was afraid of the lady so he said if he missed the flight there was another flight to IAH at 6:25AM
When I got the metal detector the TSA guy asked me if I had on 2 pair of pants. I have been asked alot of things by TSA but never that. The line was not moving very fast and I see why. At LGA you have 2 lines going into only 1
metal detector. Also, here they are still asking people to show their boarding pass as you come through the metal detector and some people have their ticket in the items being screened and is on the belt. For some time at all the airports I have been using no longer require you to show your boarding pass
after the initial screen, not sure why they make you do this at LGA.
When I get to my gate I hear yelling accross from my gate at a Jet Blue gate. A man and son are trying to get on a LGA-FLL flight but he is ticketed for a JFK-FLL flight. He says why can't they just put him on this flight he has to go to a funeral this afternnon but the agents will not budge.
They tell him to go back to the ticket counter and but another ticket LGA-FLL
and only flight avalaible is in the afternoon. he keeps arguing with the agents
until the flight leaves. (With 3 airports in NYC I wounder how many othe people make the same mistake.)
As that same flight leaves a man and his wife walk up for the flight and they are told the flight just left. The man is yelling (screaming) about the long line through security is why they are late. The man asks he call the pilot on the runway to ask him to please bring back plane so they can get on the flight. The agents say no, the flight is gone. The man is yelling and cussing
after he is told the next avaliable flight to FLL is in the afternoon. The agents warn him if he does not keep quite he will not get on any flight today and they will also call the police. At that point I needed to get on my flight so I could not hang around to see if the guy kept quite. I think he had been doing alot of drinking he still was hungover.