Airside connection between C & D at BWI?
#1
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Reston, Virginia, USA
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Airside connection between C & D at BWI?
After repeated bad experiences at BWI, I avoid it even if I have to use IAD. But I remember an airside connection between C & D that allowed one to choose the shorter security line. Has that been "improved" away?
#3
Join Date: Aug 2005
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My experiences at BWI are overwhelmingly positive. When did you give up on the airport? It's been a couple (3?) years since they completed the A and B concourses and moved all the Southwest operations there. This has made the other concourses fairly pleasant, especially C where they still have a few unused gate areas.
I sometimes have a longer wait for luggage there then I would prefer, but as far as check-in and security I rarely have any kind of issues, and I'm in and out of the place a couple times a month.
But to answer your question...no. No "cut through" between C and D. Used to be one between some of the gates, I think B and C, back when Southwest used both. But the completion of the new terminal areas for A and B did away with that.
I sometimes have a longer wait for luggage there then I would prefer, but as far as check-in and security I rarely have any kind of issues, and I'm in and out of the place a couple times a month.
But to answer your question...no. No "cut through" between C and D. Used to be one between some of the gates, I think B and C, back when Southwest used both. But the completion of the new terminal areas for A and B did away with that.
#4
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Washington DC USA
Posts: 2,571
ColumbiaPete is 100% right on...there was a walkway between the old B and C, since Southwest had flights from both. I remember using that several times when security was backed up one way or the other.
Now, A&B are connected, and C and D are each standalone with no way in from anywhere else.
There are things I dislike about BWI, but long security lines aren't one of them. I don't think I have waited more than 15 minutes for security there in the last 5 years at ANY of the checkpoints. And that included a lot of prime-time (Fri PM) departures.
Now, A&B are connected, and C and D are each standalone with no way in from anywhere else.
There are things I dislike about BWI, but long security lines aren't one of them. I don't think I have waited more than 15 minutes for security there in the last 5 years at ANY of the checkpoints. And that included a lot of prime-time (Fri PM) departures.