And the culprit is Southwest. They are making all sorts of excuses, but the bottom line is that a lot of people are missing their flights despite showing up in plenty of time. Someone showed up three hours early and missed his flight. Furthermore, they are not calling people out of line in order to catch their flight.

The three reasons they gave for the long lines are that they didn't anticipate the extra traffic, that people aren't used to the new security, and that people are showing up way too early.

Excuses number one and three are complete and utter BS, if you ask me. Uh, hello, it is Christmas and you didn't anticipate extra traffic? As for the third excuse, well, maybe if they would get with the program and assign seats, they wouldn't have people showing up eight hours before their flight!

Eight hours before a flight from BWI to BDA? Hell, you could drive there in less time. What's wrong with these people?