Originally Posted by
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Rahm is right on this--you gotta love the airlines getting all the runway and gate improvements they wanted, then trying to backtrack on building anything that affects the wellbeing and comfort of the passengers.
The overall project provides for a significant increase in the number of gates (not counting the T5 expansion). I'm sure the airlines are all for this aspect as ORD is about the most gate capacity starved airport in the country. It looks like they aren't quite as keen as they were earlier on paying for the convenience of having at least some of the *A and OW INTL operations co-located with domestic operations. Or maybe not as fancy as they once wanted.