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Sep 23, 2012 | 6:37 am
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"The GAO estimated that flights to eight new destinations Congress added this year may carry as many as 1,245 new daily passengers."
i sort of thought they use airbus a320 and boeing 757's for the west coast. those planes hold about 125-150 each. presuming 80% load, 2000 more passengers if only one flight each day.
i like the comment 25min to tsa sign.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/...0_story_1.html
i sort of thought they use airbus a320 and boeing 757's for the west coast. those planes hold about 125-150 each. presuming 80% load, 2000 more passengers if only one flight each day.
i like the comment 25min to tsa sign.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/...0_story_1.html
Sep 23, 2012 | 1:05 pm
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"The GAO estimated that flights to eight new destinations Congress added this year may carry as many as 1,245 new daily passengers."
i sort of thought they use airbus a320 and boeing 757's for the west coast. those planes hold about 125-150 each. presuming 80% load, 2000 more passengers if only one flight each day.
i like the comment 25min to tsa sign.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/...0_story_1.html
i sort of thought they use airbus a320 and boeing 757's for the west coast. those planes hold about 125-150 each. presuming 80% load, 2000 more passengers if only one flight each day.
i like the comment 25min to tsa sign.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/...0_story_1.html
And, the lack of an airside corridor makes life worse every day. And, not sure there's a great solution such as a tunnel given that the whole airport is built on landfill.
Sep 23, 2012 | 3:25 pm
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most auto tunnels are on less than fill.
Sep 23, 2012 | 6:13 pm
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The same article mentions that the percentage of US arrivals who are connecting has gone from 18% to 40% -- presumably, those are additional passengers from their expanded operations.
Tunneling and excavation are never cheap, but get much more expensive when done in areas below the water table -- like the sea-level muck beneath DCA. You need to continuously keep water out of the hole, which requires pumping 24/7 and lots of additional concrete.
Tunneling and excavation are never cheap, but get much more expensive when done in areas below the water table -- like the sea-level muck beneath DCA. You need to continuously keep water out of the hole, which requires pumping 24/7 and lots of additional concrete.
Sep 24, 2012 | 6:32 am
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The same article mentions that the percentage of US arrivals who are connecting has gone from 18% to 40% -- presumably, those are additional passengers from their expanded operations.
Tunneling and excavation are never cheap, but get much more expensive when done in areas below the water table -- like the sea-level muck beneath DCA. You need to continuously keep water out of the hole, which requires pumping 24/7 and lots of additional concrete.
Tunneling and excavation are never cheap, but get much more expensive when done in areas below the water table -- like the sea-level muck beneath DCA. You need to continuously keep water out of the hole, which requires pumping 24/7 and lots of additional concrete.
Sep 24, 2012 | 1:08 pm
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How many passengers are actually inter-airline transferring? I'll bet not a ton. Most of the xferring is likely at the US Airways side of the operation - and they have a shuttle bus that runs from the north pier to the middle pier every 5 minutes now.
Sep 24, 2012 | 9:47 pm
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Don't give MWAA any ideas! If they bring back the Interim Terminal, I worry that it would become National's answer to IAD's permanently-interim C/D concourses.
Sep 25, 2012 | 5:22 am
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This is likely the answer. I'm told that tunnelling is essentially not viable given the disruption it would cause for lengthy periods of time to existing operations. I do wonder whether there's any chance of turning what was the temporary US/DL terminal (old hangar, now offices) into a temporary terminal again if the tunnel option were ever to come to pass.
Sep 25, 2012 | 5:35 am
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there is a considerable amount of unused space between the ticketing counters and the east windows. that would be plenty of space for an elevated walkway between gates 10 and 45. been a long time since i was in the old terminal, but if i get the design contract, i'll get right on a design for an interconnect to gates 1 to 9 to the rest of the terminal.
as most already know, i am very much in favor of extending both runways an additional 10,000 feet to make them 747/777 serviceable, for the a380. would have to pave way out to the east to allow ground clearance for those big guys.
as most already know, i am very much in favor of extending both runways an additional 10,000 feet to make them 747/777 serviceable, for the a380. would have to pave way out to the east to allow ground clearance for those big guys.
Sep 25, 2012 | 10:03 am
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Sep 26, 2012 | 7:19 am
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there is a considerable amount of unused space between the ticketing counters and the east windows. that would be plenty of space for an elevated walkway between gates 10 and 45. been a long time since i was in the old terminal, but if i get the design contract, i'll get right on a design for an interconnect to gates 1 to 9 to the rest of the terminal.
as most already know, i am very much in favor of extending both runways an additional 10,000 feet to make them 747/777 serviceable, for the a380. would have to pave way out to the east to allow ground clearance for those big guys.
as most already know, i am very much in favor of extending both runways an additional 10,000 feet to make them 747/777 serviceable, for the a380. would have to pave way out to the east to allow ground clearance for those big guys.
Any walkway has to 1) be sterile, 2) ADA compliant, and 3) cost reasonable. Without spending MILLIONS of dollars and tunneling under the tarmac between the three terminal piers, I'm very much at a loss to see how this could be done
Sep 26, 2012 | 5:20 pm
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I'm not sure how you'd get a walkway placed really anywhere without MAJOR renovations and/or destruction. You can't just slap up some stairs and a walkway.
Any walkway has to 1) be sterile, 2) ADA compliant, and 3) cost reasonable. Without spending MILLIONS of dollars and tunneling under the tarmac between the three terminal piers, I'm very much at a loss to see how this could be done
Any walkway has to 1) be sterile, 2) ADA compliant, and 3) cost reasonable. Without spending MILLIONS of dollars and tunneling under the tarmac between the three terminal piers, I'm very much at a loss to see how this could be done
Sep 26, 2012 | 9:05 pm
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With a threat of sequestration, I don't think you're going to see a lot of willingness to dole out money for MWAA to waste.
And remember, this discussion relates primarily to -connecting- passengers. Congressmen aren't connecting through DCA...