Native son David Begnaud skips MSY chaos, praises Lafayette airport TSA in viral post

Lafayette native and longtime CBS journalist David Begnaud made a viral social media post Monday praising Transportation Security Administration at the Lafayette Regional Airport.

Begnaud was originally scheduled to fly to Los Angeles from Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport, which has been plagued in recent days with hours-long delays and causing some passengers to miss their flights.

The delays at MSY are being caused by Transportation Security Administration workers calling in sick because they haven’t been paid fully since the Feb. 14 start of a partial government shutdown amid a stalemate between Republicans and Democrats over funding for the Department of Homeland Security…

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