Originally Posted by
home92345
IME, the queues on the Eagle’s Nest side can be worse because most of the passengers arriving there want to take the bus, while at t4 or t5, you have passengers arriving at more gates, but only a small portion from each arriving flight will typically go to the bus to the nest, along with the LAX originating passengers who will also get to the bus stop as they arrive.
If you arrive on an Eagle flight right after several other flights you can find yourself at the end of a long line and wait for several buses to come and go.
This seemed plausible to me, and fits with the feelings I have based on my own experience. But surely it cannot actually be true?
The only people who don't take a bus are people arriving and then departing from the Eagle's Nest. Ignoring them, everyone arriving or departing from the Eagle's Nest (regardless of connection or O/D) must take a bus from or to the Eagle's Nest and it seems unlikely that the number of arriving passengers will be much different than the number of departing passengers, which implies that the lines of people waiting for a bus should average out to the same whichever direction you are going.
I suspect our experience is based on the fact that when a plane arrives everyone leaves the Eagle's Nest immediately, whereas they head towards it over a more spread out period of time ... hence the lines at the Eagle's Nest are both longer and shorter than those at T4 and T5 (which are much less varied in length, but which average to the same). And, of course, most of us are there when the lines are longer (by definition) and so we are more likely to feel that Eagle's Nest has longer lines.