Any plans to rebuild the UA concourse (C and D gates & UX terminal) at IAD / Dulles?
Apr 2, 2022, 2:13 pm
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Could a new regional jet facility be the starting point for a new concourse?
Apr 2, 2022, 3:32 pm
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Was supposed to be this spring, latest announcement was that it's delayed to fall, which means perhaps in the winter.
Stupidest thing they did was make "phase 1" of the silver line stop a few miles short of the airport, rather than all the way to the airport - the place that would have been the most popular destination on the line
Stupidest thing they did was make "phase 1" of the silver line stop a few miles short of the airport, rather than all the way to the airport - the place that would have been the most popular destination on the line
Apr 2, 2022, 6:38 pm
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This sounds like just a rehash/reaannouncement of the new concourse that was announced I think mid-2021 (though pandemic time is a bit of a blur to me -- could have been late 2020)
Apr 2, 2022, 6:46 pm
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There is one good thing about the United A gates: easy to get to from the A/B international terminal where the TK and LH lounges are located and the AF lounge for those of us with Priority Pass. :-)
Apr 2, 2022, 9:05 pm
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Apr 2, 2022, 9:24 pm
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Boy, I have not gone to the DC area for a few years and I can't believe the Silver Line is not done yet and they still have not started to do anything for the C/D replacement. $500-$800M for 14 gates. That is $35M-$57M per gate. I surely hope the design considers the rest of the concourse...
Are they just too busy doing DCA and not enough resources to work on IAD? These bureaucrats should really shape up. Forget about China, it seems even LAX/LGA move a lot faster...
Are they just too busy doing DCA and not enough resources to work on IAD? These bureaucrats should really shape up. Forget about China, it seems even LAX/LGA move a lot faster...
Apr 2, 2022, 10:11 pm
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Boy, I have not gone to the DC area for a few years and I can't believe the Silver Line is not done yet and they still have not started to do anything for the C/D replacement. $500-$800M for 14 gates. That is $35M-$57M per gate. I surely hope the design considers the rest of the concourse...
Are they just too busy doing DCA and not enough resources to work on IAD? These bureaucrats should really shape up. Forget about China, it seems even LAX/LGA move a lot faster...
Are they just too busy doing DCA and not enough resources to work on IAD? These bureaucrats should really shape up. Forget about China, it seems even LAX/LGA move a lot faster...
Apr 2, 2022, 10:27 pm
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David
Apr 2, 2022, 11:11 pm
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https://airlineweekly.com/2021/10/un...urse-upgrades/
United Airlines in Talks With Dulles Airport to Make Overdue Concourse Upgrades
Edward RussellOctober 15, 2021
United Airlines and the operator of Washington Dulles International Airport are in talks over a potential multi-billion dollar upgrade that could see the airport’s widely derided Concourse C/D finally replaced.
The project, which Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA) CEO Jack Potter told Airline Weekly is in a “conceptual” phase, would replace the 46-gate C/D facility with a modern structure in phases.
“As proud as we are of Dulles, it was never designed for what it’s doing today,” United CEO Scott Kirby told Airline Weekly earlier in October. The C/D facility was built as two temporary concourses in the mid-1980s and connected near the end of that decade after United established a hub at Dulles. Various crises, including the 1990-91 recession, 9/11 and the Great Recession, limited both the airline and the airport’s ability to replace the concourses.
The works would build on the proposal for a new roughly 535,000-sq.-ft concourse south of the existing Concourse C designed to replace a regional aircraft facility on Concourse A. Virginia environmental authorities signed off on the regional gates replacement in July.
Apr 2, 2022, 11:56 pm
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No, the C/D replacement will be built/expanded from this new concourse. They won't be starting over.
https://airlineweekly.com/2021/10/un...urse-upgrades/
https://airlineweekly.com/2021/10/un...urse-upgrades/
Apr 4, 2022, 8:50 am
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Though if these are atop the C Aerotrain stop it will be much easier - jump on at B, take 3 stops, a couple escalators, and you're right at your (A?, C+?) gate.