The PIA is the slowest airport I’ve ever seen, and every time I travel, it seems to be getting worse. . Someone once told me that this is due to an excessively high gate tax that our Democrat county commish has levied on each airline, causing them to discontinue their flights one by one. Its certainly not for lack of travelers - every time I fly, it seems like the flights are full. There’s just so few flights available because the airlines are penalized by our greedy, tax-happy politicians.
Disgusting.
Thanks for confirming my perceptions. The PIA situation is reflective of a mentality that, unfortunately, pervades the Pittsburgh district.
It seems that the powers (Democrats since the 1930s) are always looking for one thing that will make the area the hot item. It's almost like Ralph Kramdem coming up with his harebrained brilliant schemes to put he and Alice "on easy street". While I still lived there, it was the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute that was envisioned as the thing that would transform the town into the next Silicon Valley. It didn't happen on the scale they thought it would. There was also talk of a robotics facility at one of the closed steel mills. That too was a dream never achieved. Similarly, the new airport was supposed to make Pittsburgh a prime destination and was to lure corporate headquarters back to the region but it was another flop.
Until the powers of unions and their liberal enablers, which were and are among the major factors in decline of the entire tri-state, are thwarted, the promised "next big thing" will continue to be illusionary.