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Didn't ABQ used to have a TWA Lounge? Where in the airport was it when it existed?

According to this thread, "TWA's Ambassador's lounge was near the C gates and the largest baggage claim (at least now) is adjacent to it."

Alas, no more airline lounges, but the observation lounge is nice.

Are the C gates where New Mexico air flies out of?

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Originally Posted by CObigtimefan (Post 13563324)

Are the C gates where New Mexico air flies out of?

The $64K question. I've been trying to find the 'C' gates, but can't find them. New Mexico Air flies out of the 'E' gates, but I don't know where those are, either. I've never flown NMA.

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Originally Posted by AZ_MISMAN (Post 13564240)

The $64K question. I've been trying to find the 'C' gates, but can't find them. New Mexico Air flies out of the 'E' gates, but I don't know where those are, either. I've never flown NMA.

E gates are on the same level as ticketing. To get to those, rather than going up the escalators to the security checkpoint and beyond to the A & B gates, go around the escalators and the E gates are back there. Not sure if the "C" gates were also in that area.

I wondered about this too, as we sometimes fly into ABQ to visit family, and I'm a big TWA fan. (Dad worked for TWA for over 30 years in SFO, and I maintain twahistory.com, where I'm posting a lot of the stuff I've collected.)

The C gates were a smaller concourse, I understand. From this thread on airliners.net:

http://tinyurl.com/ylos94g

..which talks about the C concourse, which was just TWA.

Here's a snippet:

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Once upon a time, there used to be a C Concourse at the Sunport, with three jetways (C1-C3). It was accessed via an escalator to the right of the ticketing counters. TWA used all three of these gates up until the early to mid 90s.

When TWA reduced flights to ABQ and moved to the B Concourse, these gates lay dormant for a long time and eventually the jetways were removed but the concourse remained. I can't remember exactly when it occurred, but the entire concourse has been removed. The current aerial imagery in Google Earth shows the concourse intact (without jetways) while Bing Maps shows the current state where the building now ends with the Sunport Police offices.

Hope it helps!