Re: OFFICIAL - New KCI Terminal
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2023 1:13 pm
Safe flight! Excited to hear your review on the back end.KCPowercat wrote: ↑Fri Feb 24, 2023 1:06 pm My last flight in/out of the dumpster terminals is today!
Safe flight! Excited to hear your review on the back end.KCPowercat wrote: ↑Fri Feb 24, 2023 1:06 pm My last flight in/out of the dumpster terminals is today!
In tears of joy that it's your last time you ever have to be at that shithole airport
In addition, if you look carefully in some of the photos, you'll spot a Tristar parked in the international concourse. Practicing widebody operations?WoodDraw wrote: ↑Fri Feb 24, 2023 12:41 pm https://thepointsguy.com/news/delta-sky ... nsas-city/
Nice review of the new lounge. I'm very excited for this.
Also some news (I think?) That Delta will up their frequency to their hubs. No talk of more directs yet which is predictable.
It's just not a good way to run an airport. It assumes that taxi drivers and visitors speak conversational English and that visitors will understand how this works.KCPowercat wrote: ↑Fri Feb 24, 2023 1:02 pmI mean I pretty clearly posted all this earlier along with the directions saying you had to call to actually "get" one which still is there
https://flykc.com/getting-to-and-from#g ... sportation
I can't imagine why or any reason why they would not have a few taxis queued up there and simply add a new tax to the que as they go. They would easier to find as well.WoodDraw wrote: ↑Fri Feb 24, 2023 4:41 pmIt's just not a good way to run an airport. It assumes that taxi drivers and visitors speak conversational English and that visitors will understand how this works.KCPowercat wrote: ↑Fri Feb 24, 2023 1:02 pmI mean I pretty clearly posted all this earlier along with the directions saying you had to call to actually "get" one which still is there
https://flykc.com/getting-to-and-from#g ... sportation
If they're so against having a few taxis there, there should be a dispatcher inside that does the process.
And the convo comes full circle to when I posted it! We will soon find out. Can always tweak process.GRID wrote: ↑Fri Feb 24, 2023 5:05 pmI can't imagine why or any reason why they would not have a few taxis queued up there and simply add a new tax to the que as they go. They would easier to find as well.WoodDraw wrote: ↑Fri Feb 24, 2023 4:41 pmIt's just not a good way to run an airport. It assumes that taxi drivers and visitors speak conversational English and that visitors will understand how this works.KCPowercat wrote: ↑Fri Feb 24, 2023 1:02 pm
I mean I pretty clearly posted all this earlier along with the directions saying you had to call to actually "get" one which still is there
https://flykc.com/getting-to-and-from#g ... sportation
If they're so against having a few taxis there, there should be a dispatcher inside that does the process.
My last was yesterday, so glad that's over. Spent the morning in the Delta Lounge in Salt Lake. I have to say, nothing has ever made me feel more like a 1% than getting into club lounges. Really excited about the one in KC. Now I'm waiting for my Illuminati invite.KCPowercat wrote: ↑Fri Feb 24, 2023 1:06 pm My last flight in/out of the dumpster terminals is today!
I guess I was under the impression that there was not even going to be a taxi stand. Sorry I missed that. If they have taxi a stand, they will likely have a small queue always there. It makes no sense to have to call cabs to the taxi stand from a parking lot five minutes away. If not, they will probably figure it out soon enough that they should have cabs ready at the stand.KCPowercat wrote: ↑Fri Feb 24, 2023 5:15 pmAnd the convo comes full circle to when I posted it! We will soon find out. Can always tweak process.GRID wrote: ↑Fri Feb 24, 2023 5:05 pmI can't imagine why or any reason why they would not have a few taxis queued up there and simply add a new tax to the que as they go. They would easier to find as well.WoodDraw wrote: ↑Fri Feb 24, 2023 4:41 pm
It's just not a good way to run an airport. It assumes that taxi drivers and visitors speak conversational English and that visitors will understand how this works.
If they're so against having a few taxis there, there should be a dispatcher inside that does the process.
I tried to get a taxi at the Westin Bonaventure LA a few years ago and their staff told me cabs weren't a thing there and I need to just Uber.GRID wrote: ↑Fri Feb 24, 2023 8:02 pmI guess I was under the impression that there was not even going to be a taxi stand. Sorry I missed that. If they have taxi a stand, they will likely have a small queue always there. It makes no sense to have to call cabs to the taxi stand from a parking lot five minutes away. If not, they will probably figure it out soon enough that they should have cabs ready at the stand.KCPowercat wrote: ↑Fri Feb 24, 2023 5:15 pmAnd the convo comes full circle to when I posted it! We will soon find out. Can always tweak process.
I don't know why, maybe I'm just noticing it now, but I have seen several BWI taxi cabs now in the last few days in the area I live in (I live like 25 miles from BWI). I still say a lot of people use them especially if the service is good and easily usable. I will say that airport taxis are about all you see anymore though. Even DC has few of their red tax cabs left it seems.
I don't know how posters can say its small when its double the size and more efficient then what we have todayGRID wrote: ↑Fri Feb 24, 2023 10:41 pm Yeah, every time I go to Target, they have like 20 check out lanes and 3 of them are open. I'm sure they know what they are doing. But that headhouse won't feel so big when it has que line taking up most of it.
And I'm not hating on the new terminal !!!! It does seem like a small area though.
Again hopefully this new terminal will be so efficient, that que lines rarely build for TSA. But that will depend on them having enough employees and them knowing how to get people through quickly.
I would love to see them add 10 gates, move Delta and United over and give the B concourse to Southwest.trexel94 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 24, 2023 8:45 pm Not sure if these diagrams have ever been posted but it shows how the 50 gate expansion could unfold. Essentially expanding concourse A south with what I assume/hope will also include more Intl gates and an expanded customs hall. Since we're already opening with 40 gates, I wonder if there will be an intermediate expansion before reaching 50 gates.
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