Originally Posted by cptlflyer
The hold rooms are tiny... I thought perhaps IAD would use the new T/Z gates for international arrivals (to streamline the FIS process), but clearly a jumbo-load of pax will not fit in the small terminal space by each gate area!
Perhaps these new gates will be used to replace the "H" gates? When the new train system opens, I presume IAD would retire it's moonbuggies... so it would make sense to move the phantom gates to a terminal.
One must keep international passengers in quaranteen until through im/customs. IAD is busy enough international to either dedicate an entire terminal or two to incomming, to run separate channels from each egress point to im/cust or to continue using peoplemovers, same as most other large int'l airports.
Don't picture shuffling 747's around after the passenger dump, and paying the crew for the extra hour.