Originally Posted by
beachmouse
The thought was that the current airport misery is worth the something like $100 million the airport authority is saving by not doing a more phased demolition of the old terminal complex and rebuilding. So the users of the facility are just expected to deal with current chaos as air travel has rebounded a lot quicker than they expected when decisions were made in the summer of 2020 under the assumption that airport passenger count would be really off for 2-3 more years.
And that's fair. But the decision to build a remote pier airport in the 21st century without an APM train operational on Day 1 is easily the worst decision in the 107 year history of commercial aviation.
The 2nd-worst decision was deciding not to build an APM train AT ALL in Phase 2 or any time in the near future at a brand new remote pier airport built in the 21st century. The below graphic shows the footprint for the trains, they just decided not to build them. At all. For "several decades at the earliest".
