{"id":869,"date":"2004-04-20T08:04:38","date_gmt":"2004-04-20T12:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/04\/tearful_goodbyes\/"},"modified":"2004-04-20T08:04:38","modified_gmt":"2004-04-20T12:04:38","slug":"tearful_goodbyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/04\/tearful_goodbyes\/","title":{"rendered":"Tearful Goodbyes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pittsburgh airport wants to become the first since 9\/11 to allow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/washington\/2004-04-19-airport-security_x.htm\">people without tickets past security<\/a> to the gates.  That&#8217;s awful thoughtful of it, allowing the passengers to have one last farewell.  Or is it?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Just as important to the cash-strapped airport, it will allow more shoppers into its Airmall, a sprawling zone of stores and restaurants that has lost business in recent years.<br \/>\n. . .<br \/>\nPittsburgh has seen a 28% reduction in passengers since 2000. US Airways, which controls about 80% of the airport&#8217;s gates, dropped about 100 flights a day there in an attempt to reduce costs. The airline has been struggling financially.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ahh.  Who would have guessed money was involved?  Shocking.  I suspect there are a number of airport owners which now wish their facilities had been designed differently to facilitate commerce with security.<br \/>\nAirlines and security consultants are against the proposal because they say it will put more stress on security personnel.  It will be interesting to see how this issue plays out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/04\/tearful_goodbyes\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Tearful Goodbyes\"><p>The Pittsburgh airport wants to become the first since 9\/11 to allow people without tickets past security to the gates. That&#8217;s awful thoughtful of it, allowing the passengers to have one last farewell. Or is it? Just as important to the cash-strapped airport, it will allow more shoppers into its Airmall, a sprawling zone of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-869","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}