Originally Posted by
longtimereader firstimeposter
Day trip so only a briefcase. Terminal D has facial recognition TSA with no line.. (D30 departure). Drop off from car to the gate at DFW can literally take <5 mins. If DFW wasn’t a mess I would have been at the gate ~40 mins prior to departure. Doesn’t seem too crazy?
(Edited to correct the error about parking)
Not a hope. Toll Plaza to Terminal D parking is 2 miles plus the looping around…construction has reduced traffic to two lanes, when it’s free flowing. So, that’s an easy 5 minutes to actually get into the drop-off. Let say you got lucky, that’s 5 minutes…add 1 minute to get to the D30 security…and then 1 minute (somehow to clear security, as unlikely as that is)…and then it’s still another 1-2 minutes to the nearest gates.
That’s 8-9 minutes in a perfect world, from your 42 minutes entering the Toll Plaza…so at the Gate with three or four minutes to spare to ensure you can fly, by AA’s rules. Not the 2 minutes to enter, get to Terminal D, get dropped off, walk, clear security and walk you suggested.
AA and DFW have plastered warnings about delays at DFW due to construction over everything. I’m sorry, but I don’t understand how you think AA has anything to do with your failure to plan for possible delays.