Originally Posted by slawecki
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.
Such "suffling" was common practice by CO at EWR until their new FIS opened just recently. It's not uncommon in the industry.
But, as I said, the new T gates are too small to support international. I understand that. I just would have thought it would be wise for IAD to make those gates for the random INTL traffic so that they can easily funnel arrivals into FIS without sending out moonbuggies for each arrival.