I think it is called contingency planning.
Parking - On the acres of tarmac in front of what will be Terminal WA.
Keg the aircraft were already PARKED on taxiways, 600 lane, anywhere ATC could put them. The aircraft had space on the airport but pax could not get off.
Buses - There were quite a few orange airport buses airside yesterday. I counted five at least.
Staff - Well since nothing was moving at the terminal, ramp staff MAY be available to move stairs to the parked aircraft.
Don't get me wrong, I am sure everyone was doing their best with what they had to deal with, which was a very prolonged storm but there seems to be a lack of planning to deal with these events.
The Qantas terminal was shut down last year by a fire warning system. So nothing moved. Where was the contingency planning?
Remember Sydney airport early this year or late last year.
We seem to have no plan for these events which happen with monotonous regularity. As someone said above, because QF terminal is already at capacity it doesn't take much to grind to a halt.
The irony is WAC would have done very nicely from parking charges yesterday.