Originally Posted by
cordelli
Doesn't have to be anything fancy, even an area they can move a stairway up to the plane and just walk people inside, move the plane and do the next one.
My conjecture is they are using the entire Terminal B so they can lock down International Passengers. I'd go further and say that if they had one international flight in there already, they would probably divert the any domestics to Terminal A and hope there's a gate.
...of course the real solution is to not send too many airplanes into the same airport, no matter what the weather is.
I think that was the communications part of the plan.
Hopefully good will come out of it and it can be implemented in other airports, though
I'm not confident there but I wouldn't mind being wrong. BDL happened to have Terminal B lying around. I don't think there's too many airports that have that 'luxury' so to speak. The plan itself and the compromises that all the 3 lettered organizations had to make might bode well though, towards some future sanity. Likewise for the communications part of the plan -- these days few folks seem to have viable disaster recovery plans. They're on paper, but I don't know how many survive first contact with reality.