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Old 12-14-2011, 05:29 PM
 
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I find it nice, easy and quaint now that I am living here, but it's no different than Springfield airport. KC should have done something about it's design when TWA raised a fuss. Leaders back then were short sighted about the role of an airport. Thank goodness we have a mayor now who is forward thinking and looking.
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Old 12-14-2011, 08:36 PM
 
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I find it nice, easy and quaint now that I am living here, but it's no different than Springfield airport. KC should have done something about it's design when TWA raised a fuss. Leaders back then were short sighted about the role of an airport. Thank goodness we have a mayor now who is forward thinking and looking.
I'd like to see a new terminal due to the new requirements but if I'm not mistaken the airport was designed and built the way it is because of TWA not the other way around. At least that's the way I've read it here on city-data threads.
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Old 12-15-2011, 03:17 AM
 
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I have a family member who worked for TWA here who told me the 3 terminal drive to your gate was what TWA wanted. But sometime either during construction or soon after it opened TWA wanted wider terminals for their operations and Kansas City couldn't do it because of how much the city had spent in building the terminals so TWA moved operations to St Louis in 1982. If that's true, then TWA kind of help to create an airport that they didn't want in the end.
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Old 12-15-2011, 06:06 AM
 
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a new airport would be nice and needed. If there's not going to be a new central terminal airport, then something should be done to the current terminals to bring them up to date and functional. The current three terminals is an interesting concept but not pratical or functional in my opinion.
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Old 12-15-2011, 08:06 AM
 
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^According to this, TWA wanted the 'drive to your gate' concept.

" TWA insisted on a "Drive to Your Gate" concept with flight gates only 75 feet (23 m) from the roadway (signs along the roadway identified the specific flights leaving each gate). "


Kansas City International Airport - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Old 12-24-2014, 07:46 PM
 
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So when is this new terminal going to happen?
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Old 12-25-2014, 01:55 PM
 
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Agreed.

I wonder how many of the oh so hip and "with it" who love to bash KCI have ever considered that it just might be today's "security" measures that are, in fact, the problem?

But no, let's embrace "security" that is unconstitutional and unthinkable in the former United States of America and reject an airport that was the best possible design for the convenience of local travelers just a few short years ago.

In today's world, madness has become the rule....on so many fronts. I am fortunate to have lived for a good many years when it was the exception.

And anyone who lived those years old enough to be aware knows exactly why.
When security concerns rather than people concerns direct the design of an airport we should all be concerned.
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Old 12-25-2014, 01:59 PM
 
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What, you're comfortable getting on a plane where your "constitutional rights" weren't "violated" but any terrorist could have walked on with a bomb or knives? Thanks, but no thanks. It's not 1955 anymore.
The security theater that goes on has nothing to do with catching terrorists. It's all about placating nervous "home of the brave" Americans.
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Old 12-25-2014, 02:01 PM
 
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The sole reason that they're unlikely to go anywhere is that the nation of sheep we are today shrugs its shoulders and says they're unlikely to go anywhere and that (below) it's not 1955 anymore. The collective resignation to the inevitable loss of our once great beacon of hope for the future of freedom for mankind is disturbing beyond words....especially to those of us who grew up in a different country and give a damn. It is pathetic that today so many care so little about giving up so much.
He who gives up freedom to buy security will find he has neither.

A. de T.
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Old 12-29-2014, 09:54 AM
 
Location: Denver, Colorado U.S.A.
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The security theater that goes on has nothing to do with catching terrorists. It's all about placating nervous "home of the brave" Americans.
Maybe if everyone just carried guns onto planes, then if a terrorist pulls out a knife, or a gun, or a bomb, everyone on the plane could just start shooting. That should work

If you don't think security screening keeps bad things from happening on planes, then that seems like a rather short-sighted opinion.
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