While I agree that BOS can not be navigated airside -- like many older airports it was designed and constructed before the era of connecting flights and security -- I would never in a million years trade an airport like BOS for an aiport like DEN. Stapleton, IMHO, was an awesome airport; DEN is a monstrosity (albeit one that is easy to navigate airside!).

Massport seems to be hard at work making full airside connections, but even when complete, it's not clear to me how that's supposed to work. If someone flies into terminal A to connect to an international flight out of terminal E, are they supposed to walk all the way through B and C just to stay airside?

Other than the project in process at Terminal B, what work is MassPort doing to permit airside connections?

Even if they were to complete such a project, I'm sure it won't be mandatory that a passenger remain airside to make an A-E connection, but I'd certainly consider it. Nothing wrong with having the option.

The Massport website includes some very detailed documents describing their capital projects planned for Logan. One of the lists of new capital projects describes an airside connector between Terminals C and E, together with the connection of gates 40,41 and 42 in Terminal C to Pier C and the remainder of Terminal C. In their description of this project is the following quote:

"This project is an important component of Massport's long term planning goal to provide post security connectivity between all of Logan's Terminals for airline passengers. This goal is a result of the changing dynamic of the airline industry which has recently resulted in the merger of several of Logan's major carriers such as United with Continental, and Southwest with Air Tran. These mergers have in many cases required Massport to redistribute gate holds between different Terminals to accomodate different airline fleet mixes and flight schedules resulting from the mergers. The project is also the result of Jet Blue's desire to expand its operation at Logan to occupy all of Terminal C, and to have post security connectivity between all of JetBlue's gates. The connectivity created by this project will permit Massport to quickly and affordably relocate airlines between gates when they merge, expand or contract. An additional benefit of this project is to provide improved customer service so that passengers do not have to go back through a TSA checkpoint when they change terminals on connecting flights."