[nomarandlee]

Don't remember seeing these details in the local papers. Leave it to a Dallas paper to get the details I guess.........

https://www.dallasnews.com/business/airl...ly-set-intense-scramble-new-gates-routes


.......If Emanuel's administration and the airlines ink a deal, the massive expansion will change the look, feel and operations at O'Hare.

New concourses would be 150 feet wide, dramatically larger than current ones. Terminals 1, 3 and 5 would get architectural upgrades. Passenger amenities would get a boost, with United and American opening 50,000-square-foot club lounges in the new Global Terminal.

"Some of the terminals at O'Hare date back to the dawn of the jet age," said Henry Harteveldt, a San Francisco-based travel industry analyst and president of Atmosphere Research Group. "The concourses choke. Good God. If you're at O'Hare at rush hour, even on a good day, it resembles one of the circles of hell. The city, the passengers flying to and through O'Hare and the airlines serving the airport all deserve a lot better, and they're going to get it."........

"It is enormously important not to let this very old lease -- which is definitely the strongest airline control lease in the national system -- continue," Evans said. "It just was not in the city's interest to let that kind of extreme airline control continue. . In 1983, they gave away the store, gave away the farm."

United and American's stranglehold over O'Hare -- and their frequent infighting -- often ground improvements or investments to a halt, city officials have said. One famous example took place eight years ago, Evans said, when a security checkpoint had to be shut down because a roof on United's terminal was leaking.......