Which is faster to Dulles C/D Gates: AeroTrain or People Movers?
Mar 29, 2018, 12:17 pm
#16
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If she is not familiar with the airport or not happy on her own, it is easiest to follow the signage. Post-checkpoint, that will direct her to AeroTrain for A & C and to a people mover for D. No reason to complicate things to save what may be 30 seconds.
For the sake of others, the issue is that the AeroTrain is quick and efficient, but the C station is nowhere near C and is located where MWATA hopes to build a new C sometime in the next 10-15 years. Thus, one walks back from the station to the current C concourse and then to one's gate/
For the sake of others, the issue is that the AeroTrain is quick and efficient, but the C station is nowhere near C and is located where MWATA hopes to build a new C sometime in the next 10-15 years. Thus, one walks back from the station to the current C concourse and then to one's gate/
Mar 29, 2018, 8:21 pm
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Your question is pretty much unanswerable - too many unknown variables: actual gate, time of day, how slow/fast your wife walks, whether she has to wait for a people mover, whether she has to wait for a train, how many other people are on said people mover or train, how fast/slow they are at getting on and off ... the list goes on ... there's no more than a few minutes in it either way ...
thanks
FDW
Mar 29, 2018, 8:30 pm
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If she is not familiar with the airport or not happy on her own, it is easiest to follow the signage. Post-checkpoint, that will direct her to AeroTrain for A & C and to a people mover for D. No reason to complicate things to save what may be 30 seconds.
For the sake of others, the issue is that the AeroTrain is quick and efficient, but the C station is nowhere near C and is located where MWATA hopes to build a new C sometime in the next 10-15 years. Thus, one walks back from the station to the current C concourse and then to one's gate/
For the sake of others, the issue is that the AeroTrain is quick and efficient, but the C station is nowhere near C and is located where MWATA hopes to build a new C sometime in the next 10-15 years. Thus, one walks back from the station to the current C concourse and then to one's gate/
Can't wait for IAD to bulldoze those "temporary" concourses....
FDW
Apr 2, 2018, 10:51 am
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Apr 3, 2018, 6:51 am
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Apr 4, 2018, 9:34 am
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I'd take the train anyway just because it feels a little more civilized than those weird vehicles that make you feel like you're a space trooper about to be dropped into relentless combat against giant alien bug creatures.