Originally Posted by LAX Gambit
did your lunch companions also talk about the 10-year plan to tear down T1-3? Any plans to "enhance" the terminals might be short term.
Uh, no, that didn't come up. They did talk a bit about the TBIT renovation plans, however. I can see why they'd want to tear down T3 -- the baggage claim area was a time capsule from 1963. And I flew out of T1 and it was bare bones in the extreme. The more interesting, totally infeasible plan someone mentioned was the idea of moving all parking off site and building an 800,000(!!) sq. ft. shopping complex on the site of the garages in a build to stimulate retail. Now that anyone thought it would happen during their career...