Originally Posted by
ords
I will expect this group to provide feedback.
There is one noticeable change, the busses will need to use the vehicle roadways whereas in 2019, the larger COBUS could be driven on/across taxiways. Some of the initial trial runs went from 4 to 18 minutes depending on the terminal. These are with new drivers, so I expect the higher times to come down as they become more familiar with the operation.
In 2019 Checkpoint 11 was used, given the location of M13 at T5 now, Checkpoint 10 will be the one passengers will be directed to unless TSA says otherwise.
Thanks for the appreciated info, as always.
Does ORD plan to actively encourage international arrival passengers to use the airside TTB to go from T5 to make the onward connections out of T1-T3?
Do you happen to know on average what percentage of international arrivals passengers at ORD are connecting onto a same-day onward flight out of ORD?
4-18 minutes? I am sure I’ll share my opinion about that. For me, it will largely comes down to the variance for any given pair of bus-embarkation and bus-disembarkation points. Predictability is important.