I'd have to also say no. I do remember and actually liked the old days when I could meet an arriving flight at the gate. In its time and place it worked well for me when aging parents were traveling in and out or my son from my first marriage was traveling as a unaccompanied minor for a visit. Right now somebody might be reading that and be thinking "Well, I'm in that situation so why shouldn't that still be the case?" Actually at some airports you still can get a pass to meet arriving flights under certain conditions. What I have noticed, and maybe it was the case back then too and it didn't matter to me then, is that the concourses seem much more crowded today than 20+ years ago. Just to name a few that I travel through regularly now the concourses at SAT, DCA, DFW, ATL, and PHL are crowded enough as it is.