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Old Aug 30, 2022 | 12:47 pm
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Originally Posted by zig666
I can't remember where the Midfield is as I'm O/D here but wouldn't that need a people mover as well? If the concern raised multiple times is the age of those movers, shouldn't there be a better plan to obsolete them?
It would not need a people mover. The idea of midfield customs is that you can go I-->D while staying in concourse C/D, and you don't have to take the people mover back to the international arrivals building and then get on the aerotrain back to C/D for your connecting flight. So the current system, and presumably the new version in any new C/D, would achieve the same thing without the need for people movers (this doesn't address anyone arriving on non UA flights who are connecting, but that's probably mostly limited to *A pax arriving in terminal B, who then need to get to C/D for a UA connection).
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