Originally Posted by
BostonFlyer1624
Holy smokes - how much time do you have on your hands and what made you do this?
When I posted this, it was in the middle of the blizzard so I had a lot of time on my hands.
Originally Posted by
thewayofthefuture
while I love airside connections as much as the next guy, what would be the justification for connecting any of the terminals other than B North and B South?
So people won't have to travel and re-enter security. People could be doing A to E (ex. MCO-BOS-CDG with BOS-CDG on AF). Connections to Cape Air, etc.
Originally Posted by
JerryFF
Wow - I'll bet some consulting company would charge $50K or more and not do as thorough a job as this!
Thank you.
Originally Posted by
djp98374
The major change I would suggest is to move some airlines like Spirit, Sun country, and Virgin American to E or C gates (with Southwest or Jetblue)
You need to have common use gates in all terminals....not just in one. From an airport optimization strategy if you have common gates they can be shared by airlines that usually share the terminal. An airline that does only a daily flight can instead lease a gate by the hour on the when they fly in/out.
Because of code sharing you will need to have some sort of terminal link system. It could be just shuttle buses like what Newark has.
Even after the merger...American will still likely have code share flights with Alaska.
alaska would likely share more than just one gate with Delta
In Seattle, SEATAC is in the process of a major gate change of airlines. Part of the strategy is to have common use gates throughout the airport that are shared by different airlines.
An idea proposed was that once UA gets out of A, Spirit would take some space in A. I think that could work out. When AS is not using A18, DL will put flights out of there. Spirit could go into A8 and A7 if needed, and DL would take A5/A6 and use A7/A8 whenever Spirit isn't.
Originally Posted by
AAerSTL
Massport shouldn't pay; AA/US should pay. AA paid for the renovation of the North Pier in B in 2006/2007; DL paid for much of the costs associated to Terminal A leading up to their BK and reach a settlement with Massport; B6 is paying for extensive renovations in Terminal C. As it is the USAIR gates are the dumpiest in the whole airport, although they have spent some money on the Shuttle wing it seems.
Good point. I think AA/US as a combined carrier will be in the "Shuttle" wing of B along with B north/the connecting area. UA would take the B4 section, and that would be good because they'd be right next to Air Canada.
On that basis, US/AA and Massport should split the cost.
Originally Posted by
PWMFlyer19
Did not know where else to put this, seemed appropriate:
http://www.boston.com/businessupdate...55O/story.html
UA moving to terminal B with AA.
Currently, the gates at Terminal B are not connected to one another behind security. The renovations will allow passengers to go from the United and American side of the terminal to the US Airways side without having to go through security a second time. The project will also give passengers using the two gates currently used by Virgin America access to the food court and concessions in the terminal.
Yup. AA/US should fit into the "Shuttle" wing/B north/new connecting area (that was renovated a few years ago) and UA could get the B4 area. That would be 10 gates as it is, which I see as acceptable.