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Originally Posted by Rail Claimore
The traffic problem in the CTA is disproportionately on the south side of the airport because all three big US carriers, AA, DL, and UA operate from there. If only one of those three would agree to rebuild and move into T2 and/or T3, that issue would be much-alleviated.
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So, you fly in on, say, Delta and have to change planes to, say, United to continue your trip. How do you get from terminal to terminal? You walk or take a cab. Moving the terminals across the whole damned airport from each other only makes that problem worse.
The first complaint I remember reading about JFK, then called Idlewild, was that it was too damned difficult getting from one terminal to another, so this is not rocket science. They should have dealt with this problem back when they rebuilt LAX in the '80s, but they didn't. Even more surprising, they should have dealt with it before building this snazzy new international terminal (what % of passengers who use LAX fly international, anyway?), but they didn't. The idea of a central structure connected to the terminals by some kind of shuttle is interesting, but if you build it in the middle of the airport, where do people park? And if you increase the capacity of the airport without doing something about getting people from all over L. A. to and from the airport, you've just made getting to and from the airport worse than it already is.
I go back to the point I made in my earlier post, L. A. should have begun planning for a new approach thirty years ago.