Damnation and Pele's fury. This is the pic that was supposed to accompany... of the great fun you will have at this Maui Airport Grope Center...
Posted on 10/09/2002 8:37:02 PM PDT by Vidalia
KAHULUI >> Travelers waited in lines longer than two football fields to get into the main terminal at Maui's largest airport yesterday as the transition was made from private to federal security officers at passenger checkpoints.
Scores of people missed their interisland flights and some missed their flights to the mainland, despite efforts by airlines to push back their schedules and accommodate delays.
The lines extended farther than 600 feet close to 1 p.m. but had been reduced to about 105 feet by 4 p.m.
The federal Transportation Security Administration said the delay was partially because the 96 screener trainees needed to adjust to a new work environment.
Lowrey Leong, TSA security director on Maui, said an old black-and-white screening monitor also wasn't working properly for about five hours yesterday, leaving checkers with only two color monitors.
Leong said federal workers would receive a color screening monitor from Hawaiian Airlines on Oahu overnight and have it operating by today. He said the airport eventually will have four color monitors screening passengers and hand-carried items.
A mobile screening team of 17 people from the mainland is assisting in the work and field training.
Hawaiian Airlines officials said 42 people missed their interisland flights, even though the schedule was pushed back 15 minutes.
A Hawaiian Air flight to Seattle was delayed for about an hour with no one missing the flight.
Other airlines made similar accommodations.
A family of three people missed their American Airlines flight to Los Angeles, despite the airlines pushing back the flight by more than 75 minutes, said Andrew Watson, a manager who works on behalf of the airlines.
"It's just the lines were really long," Watson said.
Visitors were surprised at the length of the lines.
"It's ridiculous," said Brock Smith, who was waiting for a flight to San Francisco. "It could have been handled better."
Some residents said they felt the long lines were the price they paid for increasing security and that it wouldn't be as long a wait in the future.
"They'll get it figured out," said Lahaina resident Martin Wyand, who was en route to Italy.
But in whose lifetime?
Over half of these people are functionally illiterate, having been "graduated from the State of Hawaii school systems".
Another joke about rational thinking and expertise is in effect at the statewide Hawaii airport systems.
It is pathetic, many of the same ol' airheads, but now protected under the "federal employee union" status.
This new dolts system will be tested soon, and the results, now that they think they are employees forever will reveal another few thousand well below par participants in the sham now known as the "airports security system".
You will continue to be hassled, groped, "fingered" and humiliated by people who puff dope, inhale beers or cheap booze and watch cartoons during their off hours, if they are not going through your personal belongings that they ripped off, called "lost luggage", etc.
Enjoy your flight...
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