keita
August 4, 2019, 7:07pm
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Sometimes, you wonder why some people bother pushing for ways to get a massive number of people between Charlotte and Raleigh (or across the Southeast in general) without flying.
Then, things like this happen
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article233493292.html
Fun snippets from the article
Charlotte airport passengers encountered exasperatingly long lines, packed terminals and countless flight delays as thousands of Boy Scouts crammed the airport after attending the World Scout Jamboree in West Virginia.
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[There] was little solace to local passengers caught up in the mayhem.
“The #CLT airport (“Like no place else!”) didn’t prepare for the 45,00 Boy Scouts flying out of here,” passenger Page Leggett complained on Twitter with a photo of hundreds of Scouts jamming the airport. “And now I’m a victim of their poor planning. Stuck here for the foreseeable future.”https://twitter.com/PageLeggett/status/1157611094648795137?ref_src=twsrc^tfw )
“Thank goodness for TSA Pre or I would have been 500-deep in the security line,” Mona Baset of Charlotte tweeted.
In reply, Leggett tweeted: “I was 500 deep in security line! Tried calling American and CLT. Tweeted American. Did everything I could do to alert gate we were on our way. Gate agent actually seemed please to tell us they’d just shut the doors.”
“Jerks,” Baset replied.
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