Oh the horror! B-84 getting bigger?
 

Not sure if this is good or bad news. Last night while pulling up to the northeast pod of gates at IAH B after arriving from MSP, I could see signs of an expansion going on at B-84. In the last few days steel framework has gone up to extend the building at B-84. Now, this could be somewhat good news, as I haven't noticed any expansion to the number of ERJ parking places at B-84, so it may be that the number of flights at B-84 is not increasing, but rather, the physical space for those waiting passengers unlucky enough to be departing from B-84 is expanding. In any case, the B-84 monster is growing in size.

Presently, I would rather spend an hour at Houston's downtown Greyhound Bus station than in the B-84 portion of the terminal. B-84 is that miserable. Inevitably, the bus from B-84 for your flight never leaves on time. Even if you leave the B PC at the last possible moment (having quaffed enough G&T's to quell the misery you will endure aboard a Colgan-Air Saab held together by duct-tape and bailing-wire), you get to spend the better part of half an hour at B-84 with a decent percentage of Deep-East-Texas' total population of slack-jawed yokels.

CO's Terminal B operations are hands-down the worst in the country, and probabay worse than many third-world countries. Every time I hear "chipmunk-cheeks" on the CO video talk about CO's "modern facilities", it is obvious he's never flown his own airline out of Terminal B, especially Gate 84 - the gateway to Hell.

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I thought B-84 was XJT only, with Colgan ops out of Terminal A. Interesting.

The only thing worse than Terminal B at IAH was United Express at Dulles IAD...terminal G if I remember correctly...but now that they are no longer using this facility, Terminal B wins hands down. The only thing worse than a CO barbie dream jet is where that dream jet arrives :(

With the upcoming merger with Greyhound, maybe B-84 is going to BE Houston's main bus station :)

There was a time when the current regional flts run by Colgan were out of the 'farm' at B-84 but CO decided low wasn't low enough. So they dropped Skywest, hired that miserable excuse of a carrier Colgan, moved it to Term A, and then plugged in CoEx in the B-84 pigsty.

I've said it before and I'll say it again - CO really needs to clean up its act at Term A and B. I can't understand why they put so much effort making E and C look good while allowing this mess to fester at the same airport under the CO logo.

My error. Used to take Sywest EMB-120s IAH-MLU out of B-84. My last flight there was an ERJ-145 out of B-84, with the Colgan-Air return to Term A. ERJ or propjet, doesn't matter...B-84 is a dump.

(Had the exit row on the Colgan Saab last time...duct tape around the top of the exit-row door...very reassuring)