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Re: How about a Brickfest West?
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Mon, 16 Jul 2001 21:14:37 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.us.co, Erik Olson writes:
> Yeah, whatever. I have flown out of all 4 of the major Front Range airports
> for 16 years now, and DIA is the nicest one yet, now that it is fully
> operational. The old one was too close to the city
Being close to the city was what made it *good*.
> too close to the
> Colorado Springs airport,
Can't comment on that one, not a local.
> suffered from road congestion,
Roads can be fixed easier than building a whole new airport.
> and if you think
> DIA is not near anything, well, it is quite well situated on the new highway
> system that was built after it was completed with access to destinations
> besides Denver proper,
Which cost how much to build? Has any one run some numbers on how much fuel
is being wasted by having DIA where it is?
> and within a few short years all that empty space
> will be filled up with new development
With land bought from the politicians who bought it all up before the
decision to site DIA where it was was made and who made lots of cash... but
I digress.
> and DIA will be close to everything
> again because your future clients are building offices out there. You whinger.
Ha.
> Tearing down Stapledon? --Who had figured out what else to do with it?
Um, keep it as an airport? It was far enough away from DIA to let other
airlines use it and give UA a run for their money. But then DIA would get
some competition and we can't have THAT...
> As for car rentals, YMMV as you said. I paid $25 per day recently. And very
> low taxes.
I wasn't complaining about the cost of rentals. (don't think I mentioned
them at all, actually). However, cost *really* isn't my concern compared to
time.
It takes a good 30 min or more in DIA from when you get off the plane at the
gate to when your seat is in the carseat and you're actually driving. (if
you have no checked luggage... much more if you do) *Then* you're 20 min
away from where Stapleton was. Give me close in airports with the rental
gold/elite desk right in a parking deck across the departure boulevard(1)
instead of a 20 min shuttle ride away, and good proximity to downtown. That
wasted 1/2 hour (or more) is a half hour I could be billing the client, or
playing with Lego, or sleeping, or calling my wife. (Priority order??? not
necessarily implied)
1/2 hour of client billing wipes out a *lot* of cost savings that add
delays, at least at the rate I bill.
> Meanwhile, your Detroit
Which is a terrible airport as well, needs to be blown up and clean sheeted.
> continues to harbor those villains known as
> Northwest, who lost my connecting flight in the snow... that's right, they
> misplaced an airplane on the tarmac and sent the passengers to go find it....
Not arguing that point at all so it's irrelevant. :-)
But since you bring it up, I'll take NW, flaws and all, over UA. Those
arrogant so and sos always lose my luggage or damage it or make me miss
connections because they cancelled the flight or make me gate check stuff
that fits bins just fine because they can't figure out where to put their
precious jumpseat pilot's luggage who didn't get on early enough so they
pick some coach passenger to get his luggage pulled from the bin.
NW treats me a *lot* better than that.
But I digress.
Nothing is going to convince me that DIA isn't the worst airport built in
the last 20 years. *Nothing*. Except some clueless politicians somewhere
building a worse one... which could happen, unfortunately.
I freely admit I am a very picky traveler who is most concerned about one
thing, my own efficiency in getting the heck out of the airport and to where
I want to go, and in getting back to the airport as late as I dare and still
making my flights. Cost is not very important to me in the grand scheme of
things
1 - I am NOT saying that MSP or OMA or BWI, for example, are great airports,
they are not necessarily, but all of THEM have you in your rental in 5-10
min after being off the plane and out the gate if you hustle.
++Lar (is loc.us.co the right place for this? I doubt it. o-t.debate
maybe... Doesn't matter, I'm done...)
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| <snip - lots of stuff about Denver International Airport> My point is that DIA is now more functional than Stapledon was for a Colorado resident (now just a former resident). It has better access to points beyond Denver. It relieves some stress on (...) (23 years ago, 16-Jul-01, to lugnet.loc.us.co)
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| (...) Yeah, whatever. I have flown out of all 4 of the major Front Range airports for 16 years now, and DIA is the nicest one yet, now that it is fully operational. The old one was too close to the city, too close to the Colorado Springs airport, (...) (23 years ago, 16-Jul-01, to lugnet.loc.us.co)
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