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Another question: which one is a better connecting airport - Washington Dulles or Regan National.
It's a difficult question to get statistics, but smaller urban airports like San Diego, La Guardia, Reagan National, Chicago Midway tend to have very busy gates. Since they are not airports where people typically transfer they are short on places to sit and places to eat.
I gave the same advice to someone else on this forum, and he thought it would be interesting to transfer in San Diego instead of Vegas or Phoenix which is a more common Southwest transfer point. He wrote back later that his experience was miserable as they ended up milling about for 90 minutes looking for a bench and very disappointed with the snack options. The gates for Southwest are roughly 3X to 4X as busy as the gates for the other airlines in newer terminals.
Depends on the airline (s) operating out of which terminal and to where.
IAD (Dulles) is a major UA hub but the C/D Concourse is one of the worst (cramped, crowded, low ceilings) of UA's major hubs- being a "temporary" concourse built in the 1980s. They're supposed to renovate or expand it, or there have been talks for the last couple of decades to do so...
I suppose if your connecting flights are in the same concourse it could be convenient.
Reagan National is smaller so that it might be a bit easier to navigate between piers - I've always used it as a O/D (origin/destination) airport so I don't know from experience how it works for connecting flights.
I thought they are spending $4-5 billion to redo the entire airport and build new terminals that will all be connected by 2021?
Yes and it will still be a disaster. The terminals are not the constraining variable; it's the runways, which are short and, unbelievably, cross in the middle. Having two runways that cross is exactly like having one runway. LGA will still have ungodly delays every afternoon unless the weather is perfect.
You haven't heard all those politicians like Joe Biden and Donald Trump call La Guardia a "third world airport". It seems to be one of the few issues on which they agree.
Only Terminals C&D are connect. Terminals A and B are isolated. So if you are connecting from B to C you will have to take a bus. Terminal Maps – LaGuardia Airport
They tossed the "Little Flower" out of office and it's appropriate that they named such a crappy airport after him.
Yes and it will still be a disaster. The terminals are not the constraining variable; it's the runways, which are short and, unbelievably, cross in the middle. Having two runways that cross is exactly like having one runway. LGA will still have ungodly delays every afternoon unless the weather is perfect.
Most popular destinations from LGA
ORD 734 mi
ATL 762 mi
MIA 1,097 mi
FLL 1,076 mi
DFW 1,389 mi
CLT 545 mi
BOS 185 mi
MCO 950 mi
DEN 1,620 mi
DTW 502 mi
They are even going to start flights to Phoenix (over 2000 miles away)
Basically, they have a lot of flights over 1300 miles
Alaska Airlines Dallas–Love
Southwest Airlines Dallas-Love, Denver, Houston–Hobby Seasonal: New Orleans , Phoenix-Sky Harbor, San Antonio
American Airlines Dallas/Fort Worth
Delta Air Lines Dallas/Fort Worth, New Orleans Seasonal: Bozeman
Spirit Airlines Dallas/Fort Worth
United Airlines Denver, Houston–Intercontinental
Frontier Airlines Seasonal: Denver
It should probably be a local airport with no flights more than 1100 miles (to Miami).
Right now 14.4% of seats, 13.0% of passengers, and 9.4% of flights go over 1100 miles to 11 out of 75 destinations.
I think we'll try to connect through CLT with at least a 2 hour connection time or PHIL.
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At least CLT is well marked even if it's too big. One learns pretty quickly to have at least 2 hours layover especially since we don't want to have to trot/run/lope from terminal E to terminal C.
Thank you everyone for all the good information. Love these forums
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