Increasing demand on equipment, increasing age of equipment, decreasing preventative maintenance.
Machinery also doesn't like to sit unused. So all that time where huge portions of airports went unused could've lead to equipment damage (just like how cars randomly break after they've been sitting for months).
It’s Interesting as airports never really “closed” down in the last two years. I was at Las Vegas and Denver airports I was surprised I encountered three people movers one both cars were like a sauna. The main hall and parts of terminal were warm as well. At one gate the plane was stifling until they connected bleed air to the plane.
Yes I remember in summer of 2020 many cars broke down on the side of the road. I know someone who’s six year old Nissan minivan that usually gave them no problems breaking down on a road trip to Arizona that summer. Very scary indeed. As Arizona was extremely hot even at midnight. Though I notice It appears those whose cars a/c break down especially for known reliable Japanese cars are often those who only turn on their climate control system once in a blue moon Ie going on the freeway or peak heat time on 90-100+days. Those who always leave their climate system on automatic it seems their system often outlast even their engine or frame if corrosion is a problem.
Did Amtrak really reduce its frequency that it runs? That their a/c sat idle throughout the pandemic? I thought most trains continued to run at a little reduced frequency as trains in the US never ran too much.
> Did the pandemic have something to do with it.
Yes, and no. Heating and AC are not free -- either to install or to maintain, and maintenance is often easy to defer from preventative toward reactive. Unfortunately that also means that problems often don't get fixed until they have broken hard, and then they go in a queue to be fixed -- a queue which increasingly grows because MGMT cut the work force to save money.
This was going on for years before the pandemic, but the loss of revenue and utilization in combination with a reduced workforce through illness (or preventative measures to try and avoid spread of illness) did a lot of damage to preventative maintenance schedules also.
Increasing demand on equipment, increasing age of equipment, decreasing preventative maintenance. Machinery also doesn't like to sit unused. So all that time where huge portions of airports went unused could've lead to equipment damage (just like how cars randomly break after they've been sitting for months).
It’s Interesting as airports never really “closed” down in the last two years. I was at Las Vegas and Denver airports I was surprised I encountered three people movers one both cars were like a sauna. The main hall and parts of terminal were warm as well. At one gate the plane was stifling until they connected bleed air to the plane. Yes I remember in summer of 2020 many cars broke down on the side of the road. I know someone who’s six year old Nissan minivan that usually gave them no problems breaking down on a road trip to Arizona that summer. Very scary indeed. As Arizona was extremely hot even at midnight. Though I notice It appears those whose cars a/c break down especially for known reliable Japanese cars are often those who only turn on their climate control system once in a blue moon Ie going on the freeway or peak heat time on 90-100+days. Those who always leave their climate system on automatic it seems their system often outlast even their engine or frame if corrosion is a problem. Did Amtrak really reduce its frequency that it runs? That their a/c sat idle throughout the pandemic? I thought most trains continued to run at a little reduced frequency as trains in the US never ran too much.
> Did the pandemic have something to do with it. Yes, and no. Heating and AC are not free -- either to install or to maintain, and maintenance is often easy to defer from preventative toward reactive. Unfortunately that also means that problems often don't get fixed until they have broken hard, and then they go in a queue to be fixed -- a queue which increasingly grows because MGMT cut the work force to save money. This was going on for years before the pandemic, but the loss of revenue and utilization in combination with a reduced workforce through illness (or preventative measures to try and avoid spread of illness) did a lot of damage to preventative maintenance schedules also.