Originally Posted by
swampwiz
So what is the deal on the pickups?
Unfortunately the deal is just that the pickup area and protocol at MSY are poorly designed to the point of near-unusability, so people are just doing whatever they can to not have to be stuck in a 20-minute traffic jam to move 200 feet. I myself always tell my friends/family to go to Departures, not Arrivals, when I pick them up. The main “enforcement” at Arrivals is the crossing guards shouting at pedestrians to stay on the sidewalk so cars can go by.