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I think that there should be city center terminals at which you do check in. Then a bus would take you to the airport. The terminals could be nice, with free br
by timthelion 9y ago
I think that there should be city center terminals at which you do check in. Then a bus would take you to the airport. The terminals could be nice, with free breakfast, and you'd sit down at a table with your laptop after going through check in. And when the bus came, you'd get on it stress free. If an airline did this, they could save a lot of passenger time and stress and it would probably be cheaper and better for the environment then faster planes.
- chrisseaton 9y agoAnd the idea is all the passengers would be on the bus so they would delay departure if the bus was delayed? I don't think it would help much to put the check-in in the city centre though - getting into a city centre is just as prone to delay as getting to an airport, and I'd still need to leave hours for that possibility.
- timthelion 9y agoYes, all passengers would be on the buses and if a bus was delayed they would delay the plane. Oops, I forgot that in the US you don't have subways. Here in Europe, there are never, ever, delays going to the city center.
- chrisseaton 9y agoI’m British, but I still wouldn’t bet thousands of pounds worth of travel plans on absolutely being able to get into London without delay.
- timthelion 9y agoI forgot you guys were still technically in Europe, sorry.
- chrisseaton 9y agoWhy are you being so snide and unpleasent?
- timthelion 9y agoTo take London, a very exceptional case IMO, and present it as an example of European transport is not very meaningful. England is really much more like America in this regard, you even have American style suburbs. It is not really a counter example to say that London hasn't got a reliable subway line. And I think that it is perhaps a little arrogant to think that London in any way represents Europe. Most european cities have a series of subway lines which cross in the center. The center is therefore easily reachable by all. However, the outskirts are not, due to the need to change trains. My suggestion of putting terminals in city centers, rather than in the airport at the outskirts of the city, is therefore reasonable within the context of Europe. London being an exception, due to your professed lack of functional public transport, is a pity, but it is not a counter argument.
- chrisseaton 9y ago> Most european cities have a series of subway lines which cross in the center. But London has the most extensive subway system in Europe and of course the lines cross in the centre. But I was saying you were being snide because you were saying the UK is leaving Europe, which of course it isn't. You're trying to sneak in a mean political point there.
- pjc50 9y ago> Here in Europe, there are never, ever, delays going to the city center. Two words guaranteed to strike terror into the heart of Londoners: "tube strike". (I'm all for subways but let's not pretend they're 100% reliable when they run on Victorian technology and have various sorts of regular delay inducing incident)
- SOLAR_FIELDS 9y agoSure, but I'm guessing this happens rarely enough (once every couple of years) that it would fall under the same category of "severe thunderstorms", i.e. an act of God that was going to delay everything no matter what you would do.
- EliRivers 9y agoHere it is! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_London_Air_Terminal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_London_Air_Terminal Or rather, was.