Originally Posted by
slawecki
"The GAO estimated that flights to eight new destinations Congress added this year may carry as many as 1,245 new daily passengers."
i sort of thought they use airbus a320 and boeing 757's for the west coast. those planes hold about 125-150 each. presuming 80% load, 2000 more passengers if only one flight each day.
i like the comment 25min to tsa sign.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/...0_story_1.html
Neither Congress nor the Aiports Authority want to deal with the larger problem. They focus on the # of rotations, not the # of pax. When DL did its slot swap for LGA, nobody peeped when it substituted 757's into its much fewer slots. The impact on flight operations isn't much (a bit of spacing wake turbulence), but the impact on the terminals, from parking to check-in to checkpoints to room at the gates hasn't been dealt with.
And, the lack of an airside corridor makes life worse every day. And, not sure there's a great solution such as a tunnel given that the whole airport is built on landfill.