manneca

The last time I flew out in the morning, the wait time for TSA Pre was about 10 minutes. There was no one in the premier lane. No one. If you have status you might luck out. I have no idea how long the wait was for the regular TSA line, but it looked like there might be 100 people in line. This was around 5:30.

Even with Pre, the shortest time I've had from parking lot (I use Airport Fast Park) to gate is 40 minutes. Now, I do fly UA from the furtherest gates in C.

I'd second the idea of getting a room for the night. You might check to see which hotels have parking programs. I don't park in the airport parking lots because it's so expensive. The non airport run parking lots on Snow are in the 9-11 dollar range per day.

And bear in mind, that if you are on a hotel or parking shuttle, you'll arrive at the limo lot which runs in front of the garage, but away from the airport drop-off, pick up area (which is a mess anyway). It's a bit of a hike, taking an escalator down to the lowest level and then back up to the ticketing level. If you're not familiar with where you're going you may need extra time. And right now with construction going on, everything seems to change. (I'm assuming there hasn't been a miracle in construction completion in the last several weeks.)

lincolnjkc

Jetways have been removed from C3, C5, C7, and C9.

C3 has a crane next to where the jetway used to be and a flatbed truck with some cribbing/rigging stuff (and interestingly a Delta-branded GPU sitting near by), C7 the jetway is sitting on the ground in front of the gate.

ctownflyer

Getting ready for AA, should be those gates and C11.

paule123

There's a good chance the main parking lots connected to the terminal will be full. I'd plan on parking off-site and add about 30 minutes buffer for shuttle bus time. Personally I use Park Place on Snow Rd, they are always quick, efficient, friendly.

In the C lobby they added a dedicated bypass lane to the TSA Pre area so you can bypass the mass of humanity in front of the United checkin counters more easily. B checkpoint is closed for construction. The A checkpoint is not worth considering IMHO, it's so narrow and IIRC has only one x-ray belt.

737MAX

Apparently AA is hanging their own jetways.

plinth857

Agreed on the checkpoints... make your way to C regardless of what carrier you are using.

This may not be an effective parking solution for all, but for trips of less than 5 nights, I park at the Brookpark rapid station lot quite frequently for my shorter trips. Parking is free, and the lot is patrolled by RTA police (my car has always been left alone). The trains come quite often, too. $5 round trip beats parking costs for me!

ctownflyer

Why only for shorter trips?

oscar555

That's weird. If it's for the AA move, they would just use the jetways that are already in C.

oscar555

Interesting. I wonder if they are getting serviced or replaced. Hmmmm...

oscar555

If it was for AA, then why wouldn't they use the existing jetways that are already at C? It wouldn't really make sense to take all of them down, then move AA's over to C. Concourse A would be a mess because half of it's equipment would be gone and F9 and NK are on opposite ends basically.

TWA884

At most airports, the jet bridges are owned by the airlines, not the airport authorities.

P.S. Jetway is a registered trademark. American uses a different brand.

oscar555

That's the part I was missing. Thanks for correcting me. What will happen with these jet bridges then?

plinth857

Signage at the rapid station indicates they don't want you to park more than 5 nights. I haven't tried, so I don't know if they ticket the car or what, but I don't want to find out! I'm guessing that they just don't want to encourage long term parking as a deterrent to theft.

lincolnjkc

As of when I came home this evening the C21 passenger loading bridge has been partially removed and is sitting on the ground in front of the gate much like the C7 bridge (which hasn't moved). C11 still has a PLB with United ads down the sides... I wonder if perhaps United is doing some mix-n-matching I.e. moving newer/better maintained/nicer bridges from their abandoned gates to gates they're keeping... or if C21 is just getting abandoned (it's one of the odd gates that shares part of PLB hallway with the next gate over before a fork in the road)

Also, interestingly, a Delta-branded set of air stairs has joined the Delta-branded GPU I mentioned up thread at C3. Wonder if they're just parking surplus crap there or if Delta has somehow made use of C3 which would make next to no sense given their entire presence is on B

thejaredhuang

How is the UA Club at CLE, nothing special?