Originally Posted by
ben237829624
that is so wrong.
IAD is a great airport for connection. UA operates all its mainline flights from C&D. If you arrive in a domestic and connect to an international, you simply walk over to the C9-C1 area, which also servers domestic flights. And if you arrive in a UA international and connect to a UA domestic, you can use the transfer CPB, which is generally faster, and when you walk up to the concourse, you are at C7. even though C&D interior is a failure, the passenger movement design is definitely a good one.
but connecting to *A partner like NH and LH is a different story.
mainline is the key word here, which usually means planes from outside the northeast (excluding large cities), because those are usually UAX arriving in terminal A. Thus the problem. I will take any hike in Newark over the terminal A to terminal C/D dash (either wait 20 minutes for the people mover or hike half an hour for a couple miles and the equivalent of 3-4 stories to get to the train.)