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Old 11-30-2019, 06:04 PM
 
Location: Kansas City North
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Why are we comparing KCI and what it could have been to DEN? Denver has a much larger sphere of influence geographically and is 1-2 tiers above KC. That's not to say KCI isn't outdated though.
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Old 11-30-2019, 06:53 PM
 
Location: Middle America
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Looking pretty nuts, there, today.
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Old 11-30-2019, 07:37 PM
 
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I can never get why everyone always compares KC to Den. I think MSP of today is a better example of missed KC opportunity on many fronts. Denver has always had more of a tourist draw given its natural location, and thus was bound to get more national/ international attention on its revival. Giving it a better position to build its airport out. Now MSP I think is a better arguement for KC airport failures. KC has a much better central location and climate then MSP. Sadly today’s KCI is awful. I’d rather have Eppley Airfield over KCI of today.
To clarify, I'm not making a comparison between DIA and KCI. They are not comparable. One handles 65 million fliers per year, the other 12 million. The Save KCI crowd continually makes that comparison (among others....Chicago, Atlanta, DFW) to support the erroneous claim that all single point of entry (security) and multiple concourse airports are inefficient disasters. KCI (new or old) will never be like DIA because it sees 53 million fewer travellers per year. Not that DIA has any issues anyway.

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Old 11-30-2019, 07:45 PM
 
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Having to have KC MO residents vote on the new airport terminal was idiotic even if that was the law. Something like 55% or more of people flying out of KC were outside the city limits and people in KC MO who never flew were voting no, thinking they weren't going to get potholes fixed. That vote was the hardest thing I had to try overcome, and not successfully with my friends/co-workers. I read up on the stats of Omaha airport, has 5 million flyers with 130 flights a day out of 20 gates. KC is twice as large a metro and will have 39 gates and has never broken 12 million fliers. I have an old postcard of KCI from when it opened and on the back it says it was built for 10-15 million passengers a year. 48 years later it still hasn't broken 12 million passengers. MSP city and airport is an example of where KC could have been, had the KC metro, had with the right leaders and the right mind set of citizens, and if having been on the same page of thinking bigger and the bigger picture. KC is just a larger Wichita or Omaha, and they are fine cities, than a smaller MSP or Denver in most ways.
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Old 12-01-2019, 04:09 AM
 
Location: Germantown, Philadelphia
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To clarify, I'm not making a comparison between DIA and KCI. They are not comparable. One handles 65 million fliers per year, the other 12 million. The Save KCI crowd continually makes that comparison (among others....Chicago, Atlanta, DFW) to support the erroneous claim that all single point of entry (security) and multiple concourse airports are inefficient disasters. KCI (new or old) will never be like DIA because it sees 53 million fewer travellers per year. Not that DIA has any issues anyway.
Just a nit to pick:

DFW is the only other airport in the world built according to the "drive to your gate" basic design of KCI.

It got right a couple of things KCI's design got wrong, however, and I've noted them both already.
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Old 12-01-2019, 03:34 PM
 
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Just a nit to pick:

DFW is the only other airport in the world built according to the "drive to your gate" basic design of KCI.

It got right a couple of things KCI's design got wrong, however, and I've noted them both already.
Point taken. Substitute any big crowded hub in the US. I've actually had people tell they didn't want KCI to become LAX.

It's pretty much water under the bridge now. The new terminal is a done deal.
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Old 12-01-2019, 04:11 PM
 
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Point taken. Substitute any big crowded hub in the US. I've actually had people tell they didn't want KCI to become LAX.

It's pretty much water under the bridge now. The new terminal is a done deal.
DFW is an airport I hate to transfer in, because it's like MCI in that gates are only on one side of the terminal. Where/how the new terminal is laid out, the main bldg/entrance/exit hall is probably the right size for 39 gates, 1 million square feet. The only way that I can see the new terminal being expanded is if Terminal B was torn down and they extended the concourse of the new terminal. KC citizens need not worry of MCI/KCI ever being like LAX, or any major hub that they most likely have to change planes in to get their destinations. KC/MCI can only hope to be maybe like STL/Nashville down the road.
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Old 12-01-2019, 04:44 PM
 
Location: Germantown, Philadelphia
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DFW is an airport I hate to transfer in, because it's like MCI in that gates are only on one side of the terminal.
^^^This.

When KCI was being designed, the arilines generally relied on point-to-point direct connections between cities. Hub-and-spoke operations came about a decade after that.

The drive-to-your-gate design is great if you're beginning or ending your trip at that airport. It's not well suited for a hub operation because it requires passengers changing planes to walk further between their gates in most cases. Those good old finger piers, OTOH, work well with such operations, as do gate-cluster pods like what Southwest uses at Washington National or the setup at LAX.
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Old 12-02-2019, 11:47 AM
 
Location: Washington, DC area
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To clarify, I'm not making a comparison between DIA and KCI. They are not comparable. One handles 65 million fliers per year, the other 12 million. The Save KCI crowd continually makes that comparison (among others....Chicago, Atlanta, DFW) to support the erroneous claim that all single point of entry (security) and multiple concourse airports are inefficient disasters. KCI (new or old) will never be like DIA because it sees 53 million fewer travellers per year. Not that DIA has any issues anyway.
Exactly and DIA doesn't even have issues. Every time I fly there, TSA is only a ten minute wait at most. No matter how busy it looks or how many people show up, it's smooth and quick to get through because they have so many TSA lanes that they can open when needed. At KCI, if three flights depart at close to the same time from one of the consolidated TSA check points, the entire airport just totally bogs down and you can have wait times that far exceed much larger and problematic airport terminals.

So KCI will fail when three flights leave at once. DIA does fine with 53 million passengers a year.

But You do have to walk a lot more at DIA, take people movers etc! Would still choose DIA any day over KCI. Denver people have so many more options and non stops including international. It's awesome having three airports here in the DC area. I fly nonstop everywhere, including international and you have a ton more time slots to choose from. BWI is a Southwest hub, so that's nice too.
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Old 12-02-2019, 01:10 PM
 
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But again I”m not saying KCs airport isn’t bad. It clearly is, but I think it’s a reach to say they should be where Denver or DC is. I mean given their location they are likely to be a much bigger hub location. Despite KC being in the middle of the country. If KC still had Midwest express and Midwest airlines this conversation would be very different. It’s just frustrating when those criticize the KCI of today when 20 and 30 years ago the air landscape was so different. Now a new airport comes in and all some want to do in far off places is complain that it’s not big enough not enough service ect.
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