Originally Posted by
chasbondy
Gate re-aligns are over rated. A few months ago on a NWA-NWA connection in the Detroilet, it took me 41 minutes to get from 1 gate to the next, and even in Charlotte it was about 30 minutes to get a US-US connection (granted my shoulder bag weighed 50+ pounds which slowed me a bit)
Well, those are two hubs that have particularly long piers on their terminals. But those are not the examples being bandied about for the most part inthis thread where the ecpectation is that there will be benefits from such alignment. One could run a couple laps around SLC in 40 minutes, for example. And having the SLC gates together, for example, does actually make for some efficiencies that will benefit folks.