Off to Burbank.
I got to the airport early because that is what the airport advisories said that is what we should do. Being here during code orange was pretty much the same as the last time I flew out of here in June (for St. Louis to go to GA.) The early morning crowds for the first flights of the morning were orderly, security was routine. I don't usually carry any liquids in my check in, so that was no problem. The laptop went through without having to be turned on. I have a camera and a radio in the checked baggage. I hear that it was okay last week as well.
Marjorie's friend in came down from Philadelphia on Saturday, she will be with Marjorie until I get back. She did experience more than usual hassle at security. I think a lot of it has to do with the airport, and what we expect. If I was coming back by way of LAX (Los Angeles's big airport) I would look forward to a lot of stress, but I don't anticipate to much problems going through Burbank. Some of the big city airports are always on the verge of breaking down. Tampa serves a big metropolitan area (Tampa, St. Petersburg, Clearwater and the Gulf Coast sprawl) but does it with some degree of efficiency. I am just barely a frequent traveller, about nine flights a year, but I do notice that some airports are bottlenecks and some handle traffic efficiently.
Is it all management? Or were some airports built to handle traffic and crowds better than others? It is something to think about, especially when we hear ambitious ministers who want to turn old First Unitarian with its fair to middling size parking lot and its modest social hall into a megachurch. There may be limits imposed on our organizations by the buildings we build, limits that we can not overcome without major revisioning of physical plant.
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