Let's face facts:

Southwest @ BWI is lame, lame, lame.

Lines are horrific at check-in and again at "security." Wash POST has run numerous articles as to the severe backups at BWI, and the desperate, scrabbling attempts by airport honchos to release the bottlenecks...to no avail.

The result is aggravation, frustration, missed flights, & a free-for-all atmosphere at BWI. Thank you, elected officials.

BWI airport management is pathetique, and has not installed enough security checkpoints nor other measures to ease the passenger crush towards the gates. Once in awhile you'll read an inane quote from some feeb at BWI management re: "The reduction in flights at DCA & IAD has increased the load on our facility & we're doing the best we can." I'm feeling the effects of the curtain of garbage!!

Spare us the bullwhickey!! It's been months since the New World Airline Order has descended upon us all, and BWI is still stumbling about like a one-legged man in a butt-kickin' contest. (No apologies for the semantics: graphic terms are necessary to describe BWI's redundancies & idiocies.)

I traveled to SDQ through MIA & ended up seeking out & paying a friendly skycap usd$5.00 to scoot me through to the front of the no-end-in-sight-security-line as if I were a VIP. I zipped right on through a one-hour plus wait. No apologies here, it's "Darwin Travel" these days, because of the airlines refusal to ramp up security & security expenses. Ya snooze, ya lose. Thanks to the refusal of the airlines to hire competent & enough screeners at security checkpoints, we are all in a scrambling free-for-all to get on board.....

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