Originally Posted by
SOBE ER DOC
AA will fill the 14 new gates with aircraft and then go right back to using 35X to board flights on RON pads. I'll believe 35X is going away when they rip the darn thing out.
Besides the slot restrictions, I doubt there will be any pads remaining on the north end of the airport after the new concourse is built. Indeed, staging the construction of this thing while keeping operations going is pretty tough.
Unless you were suggesting that they'd be running shuttles from 35X all the way down to the Historic Terminal -- though that would be silly, since that building's already configured with walk-out gates.