Originally Posted by
ckendall
My point was not that it is not common outside the US, but that inside the US there is little that I experience in the US that is quite like 35X. There are long walks and crappy terminals, but the crappy terminal (downstairs at 35X) plus the often funky bus ride is special here.
I suppose, but it's a bit tautological to say that a bad feature of one airport is unlike any other. With apologies to Tolstoy, every unhappy airport is unhappy in its own unique way. There may be nothing quite like 35X at DCA, and in the same vein there's nothing quite like the horrid IAD "mobile lounges," the haphazard bus-connected terminal layout at LHR, the perennial "labor disputes" at CDG, the "orange shirts" at PHL, or the 7 terminals connected by a traffic jam at LAX.