They used to have a place you could park and watch flights off lindbergh. I think the airport has a deck at T1 on the top level. There is an outdoor area. I am not 100% on this though. Greg who comments on this might know better.
Will have to disagree. Yes opening up 4 D gates is an easy short term move to benefit of Southwest at little or no cost to either party. But you don't resolve anything in terms of Airport ingress/egress to Terminal 2 nor the undersize current parking garage let alone the baggage area.
dredger wrote: ↑Jan 28, 2017
But at some point it has been recognized that Concourse D will never be fully utilized so keeping it in place, limiting options to future projects and willingly embracing 30-40 year infrastructure as your future seems a like a poor long term. I really believe a long term vision should look at how you replace E gates/international gates & D gates being reopened with a design consistent or extension of Terminal 2 that offers the ability to additional baggage area, revamp security/customs as well as future short term/near terminal parking w the possibility of Consolidated rental facility.
jshank83 wrote:dredger wrote: ↑Jan 28, 2017
But at some point it has been recognized that Concourse D will never be fully utilized so keeping it in place, limiting options to future projects and willingly embracing 30-40 year infrastructure as your future seems a like a poor long term. I really believe a long term vision should look at how you replace E gates/international gates & D gates being reopened with a design consistent or extension of Terminal 2 that offers the ability to additional baggage area, revamp security/customs as well as future short term/near terminal parking w the possibility of Consolidated rental facility.
Most of the suggestions I see is tearing down concourse C and redoing D to make it all one long concourse, like how nextstl did theirs a few years ago. I guess if you would push it out to Terminal 2's offset from the road it would give you more room for baggage/parking. It seems like a big expense to just move a concourse a little bit though.
I agree the baggage area needs more room and it needs to be way faster. There is no reason it should take as long as it does to get your bags. Parking I haven't had an issue but I know sometimes it is full. They did add that extra lot really close.
I don't really know how you go about consolidating the rental facility unless you move everyone to the other side of 170 or something. I haven't been many places that it actually is consolidated. I usually have to alway get on a bus for the company I am renting from and ride it offsite to an individual rental car building. Would it be nice, yes, but I don't see it as much of an issue. I do like how Vegas has theirs.
I was talking abour ORD, as was someone else. No tunnel at STL.symphonicpoet wrote: ↑Jan 28, 2017I believe they're still in the end of C, but essentially in the closed part. I'm not even sure I was aware there was a tunnel between B and C, but I've been in B less than any of the others, save perhaps E.
This is about the gate location.
Why? That is the original commuter plane concourse for TWA/TWE - but it needed a lot of work and is very small. It is better as a meeting space area.I wish Lambert would move the commuter planes to the B concourse.
Did you see those pictures of the revamp of the D concourse? It doesn't appear yet that they are doing anything to the ceiling there.AS FOR HIGHER CEILINGS:
All the concourses have the new ceilings that were raised with new lighting (see below).
Here's a gate map showing the new E Gates:
Agree on first thought. However, my second thought tells me that Amazon had a predetermined list based on a number of factors and who knows if St Louis was even invited to pursue it. the other thought, which airport lost DHL when they dropped their US airborne fleet in favor of UPS providing such service? I believe it was in Ohio but wondering if somehow Amazon picked up some key people from that group. Just have a gut feeling the choice was more about the people who will run the Amazon hub then anything. Of course, no doubt Kentucky was given the ultimatum of we need these incentives or we go elsewhere.
Dammit. Huge loss. You guys see recently how Amazon was getting warehouse space in Hazelwood, just north of STL? How they are beginning to charge MO state sales taxes TODAY because of their anticipated ground operations in the State? Hubbing at STL was what was anticipated with these moves. They're already up to 40 767-300s... Dammit.jshank83 wrote: ↑Jan 31, 2017It is a shame we couldn't get this here.
Amazon plans 2,700 jobs, $1.5B investment at CVG
Jason Williams and Scott Wartman , Cincinnati 2:17 p.m. ET Jan. 31, 2017
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(Photo: The Enquirer/Kareem Elgazzar)
Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport will become a worldwide air cargo hub for Amazon, state and airport officials said Tuesday.
The Seattle-based company plans to invest more than $1 billion into the operation and employ 2,700 workers at CVG. The news about Amazon's investment was part of special board meetings organized by the Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority and the Kenton County Airport Board, which oversees the airport.
http://www.cincinnati.com/story/money/2 ... /97283034/
