Originally Posted by sallyann
I can just imagine the fun finding HOTAC for 1,600 pax in the event of a delayed/diverted/cancelled flight.
Easy. Airline provides just 1 service desk. Then as each person takes around 5 minutes to deal with = 12 per hour... 1600/12 = 133 hours to handle the queue.
Then, you have 5 days to work through the queue. After 24 hours, those at the head of the queue will be checking out and those rooms can be re-allocated.
Thus only about 320 rooms are needed.