Potential Delays at MCO

[Sparrow'sLady]

First, I am going to complain and say that it is silly they would choose the busiest holiday season to do this.
Yes, I realize this is a 2-year project, but most projects have longer delays and hiccups in the beginning and right towards the end. Both of these will hit the busy holiday season.

They are saying to allow an extra 30 minutes.

If you do not know what I am referring to, check the video.

 

[sam_gordon]

First, I am going to complain and say that it is silly they would choose the busiest holiday season to do this.
Yes, I realize this is a 2-year project, but most projects have longer delays and hiccups in the beginning and right towards the end. Both of these will hit the busy holiday season.

They are saying to allow an extra 30 minutes.

If you do not know what I am referring to, check the video.

But what the specific delays are matter. If they have a two week delay at the start because they don't have all the material, it doesn't affect the passengers. Reporter said they hope to be done by fall of '27. So they may be targeting before Thanksgiving/Christmas '27. If they wait to start until Jan 26 (so after this year's holiday rush), then, instead of fall '27, you're talking winter '27 and it will affect THAT holiday rush.

It's very possible that even if they start tomorrow, there's no (or little) passenger inconvenience until January.

 

[Sparrow'sLady]

But what the specific delays are matter. If they have a two week delay at the start because they don't have all the material, it doesn't affect the passengers. Reporter said they hope to be done by fall of '27. So they may be targeting before Thanksgiving/Christmas '27. If they wait to start until Jan 26 (so after this year's holiday rush), then, instead of fall '27, you're talking winter '27 and it will affect THAT holiday rush.

It's very possible that even if they start tomorrow, there's no (or little) passenger inconvenience until January.

The video said MCO is suggesting add 30 minutes. I took that to mean the entire 2 years. You may have to take a bus until it is complete.

This is just news/information.

 

[sam_gordon]

This is just news/information.

Oh, not the way I read the OP...

First, I am going to complain and say that it is silly they would choose the busiest holiday season to do this.

 

[BrightMorningStar]

But what the specific delays are matter. If they have a two week delay at the start because they don't have all the material, it doesn't affect the passengers. Reporter said they hope to be done by fall of '27. So they may be targeting before Thanksgiving/Christmas '27. If they wait to start until Jan 26 (so after this year's holiday rush), then, instead of fall '27, you're talking winter '27 and it will affect THAT holiday rush.

It's very possible that even if they start tomorrow, there's no (or little) passenger inconvenience until January.

Married to somebody who has been a senior project manager working with construction teams for 25+ years, I can almost guarantee you that a two week delay is a dream. That is just not how it works. Delays go way beyond waiting on materials.

 

[sam_gordon]

Married to somebody who has been a senior project manager working with construction teams for 25+ years, I can almost guarantee you that a two week delay is a dream. That is just not how it works. Delays go way beyond waiting on materials.

I was simply throwing out an example. Complaining about "why are they starting this now because they'll have delays" seems over the top to me.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

My husband has worked on power plants and now airline fueling systems where he is usually at the airport or right by there.

These projects are always planned years in advance. A power plant could be 5-6 years for example. He just went to Boise, ID where they've been working on getting the project going there (for a new fuel tank farm) for more than 2 years and just had their groundbreaking (as in pictures with the shovels you know that type of thing) there.

It's not delays per se all the time. Things like bidding on the project, price point, availability of materials, if there are any errors during the project, time to order and manufacture parts and quite frankly things like tariffs are all part of it (and can create a delay). That's not a political statement but it affects where a piece of machinery may come from and how common that might be. Like he's worked on projects where there's only 1 company in the world who manufactures this particular piece of equipment.

One time when he was working at the prior company on a power plant the concrete company incorrectly poured the concrete by using multiple batches but too long in between the main and the subsequent ones causing instability in the concrete pad. That, now unusable concrete pad cost $1 million and it took more time to dig it out and redo it.

So I get where the OP is coming from and I get where the other posters are coming from. It's not always intended to start at the perceived "worst time of the year" sort of thing. With them also working on the infrastructure while keeping the airport open, the tarmacs and even at the moment a tram running will slow it down initself. It's how you can have road and highway construction last for several years when the actual work would likely take only a fraction of that if they completely closed it. I know around my area there's even been some times they've asked for public opinion on would you rather have an entire stretch of vital road closed for 6 months or would you rather have intermittent lane closures for 2 years...an airport is different but yeah it goes into the length of time how much you have to be careful about doing massive deconstruction and reconstruction (including maintaining safe enough air quality while you're doing it).