I quoted the wrong post. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

What I meant was I'm glad to see that MKE is adding another public observation lot for aircraft spotting.

Most airports try to obstruct people from watching planes land. It sounds like MKE is actually encouraging people to watch aircraft movement.

As an aviation enthusiast, I'm glad to hear a second area is in the works! I, too, hope they have a radio frequency to listen to the tower.

LOL...I thought maybe you'd had a bad experience with those Redbox machines or something and were glad to see it gone. I'm relatively indifferent to them, myself.

If I had to guess, it comes down to $$ if and/or where a Redbox machine ends up.


+1. I'm a little surprised they're going to the effort of creating a new, additional place. But I'm happily surprised!

Really interesting location for an observation lot would be on Whitnall, on top of the hill behind the other lot, this is definitely the best view of planes landing. That damn fence isn't great to look through.

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=4...01929&t=h&z=16

The Layton Ave. lot can get crowded at certain times of day. Having an alternative lot is great idea.

New 4G Service
 

Verizon 4G now at MKE...

http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/entert...118433024.html

Parking Problem
 

Went inside the terminal to pick up an arriving family member today. I got there plenty early because of the parking problem (seems to have cleared up somewhat--there were plenty of spaces in the hourly, overflow lots looked full). Anyway, without going through security, there is really no way to see any of the "tarmac action" from inside the terminal. I suppose this is true of most airports now, but the best view I found was looking out of the south windows on the hallway to the C concourse.

Local media is reporting the problem seems to have alleviated itself. The first half of last week seems to have been impacted.

AA mainline returns to MKE.

http://twitpic.com/4hablg

MKE deemed to be second most competitively-priced large airport in U.S....

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes...ares/?src=tptw

Interesting that the New York Times considers MKE to be a "large" airport while others like MEM and CVG are deemed "midsize."

Sounds like a chapel is in the works for MKE.

http://www.jsonline.com/features/rel...119357944.html

To me, an airport chapel screams 1962. Back to the days when frightened travelers might stop for a quick prayer to wind up the courage to fly. Or when every flight was met by throngs of passengers' family and friends, and a chapel stood by waiting to comfort those family and friends when a flight didn't make it.

Obviously the accident rate is not zero, and there are still nervous flyers. But an airport chapel seems to harken back to a time when flying was much more exotic and dangerous.

I wonder what they used to make that determination. MKE served a lot more passengers than CVG did in 2010. But I don't think MKE quite passed MEM for the full year. And it's often takes time for new stats to be complied, released and percolated about. Looks like they might be using partial 2010 stats.

Quite remarkable to think of MKE serving more passengers than CVG and catching MEM. I was looking at a DL timetable from around 10 years ago and they had around 185 mainline and 305 RJ's. Times change.

Actually, looking back at the NYT story, it looks like they used O+D traffic, not total traffic. I believe MKE has more local O+D than either MEM or CVG. I would guess that MKE is in the 40's and CVG and MEM are in the 50's.

One of the best chapels is at PIT, which was a totally new facility built in the early 90s. But I suspect that's anomaly.

It's hidden in the upstairs area of the airside terminal, near the US Airways Club.