ABQ Lounge?
Mar 12, 2010, 8:25 am
#2
Join Date: Nov 1999
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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.
Alas, no more airline lounges, but the observation lounge is nice.
Mar 12, 2010, 12:28 pm
#4
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Mar 14, 2010, 12:32 am
#5
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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.
Mar 30, 2010, 4:48 pm
#6
Join Date: Apr 2004
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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:
Hope it helps!
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:
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.
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.