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Originally Posted by fawd
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Originally Posted by exit2lef
I remember hearing circa 1990 about an idea to create a Phoenix-Tucson International Airport near Coolidge. The model seemed to be similar to Denver International Airport in terms of a big, modern airport far removed from the city center. A few year later, DIA opened with a lot of problems and complaints, so that might have taken some momentum away from the idea.
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It definitely was a hot topic for humor on late night tee vee shows.
Different circumstances though; Denver metro density is mostly along I-25 or generally a north-south direction. DIA is actually 'centrally' located and very accessible from the whole of the metro area. Sky Harbor is ideally situated for metro Phoenix (and doesn't have the operational and growth issues that Stapleton had). It would have been a total clustermess to move Sky Harbor way out towards the south (east or west). It's centrally located right where it is.
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Originally Posted by RonnieFoos
Wow, 15? May as well start the lottery on those.
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Maybe if they were to sell (enough) tickets they could add 15 more units.
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Originally Posted by xymox
Fast forward to current times - you can see that only terminal 2 is getting removed and runway 4 is no longer being discussed. Seems that Williams/Gateway is where they want to put some development focus in terms of cargo vs people.
Would be EXTREMELY annoying to have to drive 90 minutes to get to the airport from the north valley...
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Have good friend who lives in north Phoenix (near Tatum and Dynamite) and just returned from visiting friends in Arkansas who used Williams/Gateway AP. I guess she saved significant money. But since she left around 4:00 am the drive was easy as was parking etc.
I'm always curious why Denver/DIA has so many damn runways compared to Sky Harbor - seven with plans for more?
Runways, at least at his point in time are expensive to build. If they don't need four no reason to build it.