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Convenient drop off in town instead of having to drive 45 minutes, and then pay to park your car. By placing all the security stuff at the 'town end', that woul
by TylerE 3y ago
Convenient drop off in town instead of having to drive 45 minutes, and then pay to park your car. By placing all the security stuff at the 'town end', that would also allow for things like lounges, etc. The actual terminals could be very compact since you wouldn't head out there until it's almost time. Could use a small-vehicle people mover type system... imagine scanning a boarding pass when you get on the vehicle, and instead of dropping you at a central station, it dropped you right at your gate?
- ghaff 3y agoIn town is only convenient if you live in town or are visiting there. Where's the parking? Where's the rental car service? The actual terminals are a pretty trivial part of the total airport area.
- TylerE 3y agoNot to be trite, but "people who live here, or people who are traveling here" is sort of their target market.
- ghaff 3y agoSo now you'll have the in-city checkin version and the in-airport checkin version? Because you definitely need parking and rental cars somewhere convenient. "Here" means a greater area serviced by a large airport which is a lot more than a city. There probably would even be a market for an in-city bag drop service. But it wouldn't replace people driving to the airport.
- TylerE 3y agoIf the airport wasn’t way outside town, many of those people wouldn’t need to park, as they could just take public transit or an Uber, and the same would also mean that many people traveling in won’t need to rent a car.
- bluGill 3y agoIn the us transit isn't normally good enough. most people rent a car. I wish that would change.
- ghaff 3y agoI pretty much never rent a car if I'm going into a city. But I'm often not actually going into the city that an airport services.
- TylerE 3y agoHeck, I drive most places (disclaimer: I mean "actual cities" here) in my own car, but I'll just leave it at the hotel and get around via Uber primarily, but I'll happily use subway or light rail or something like that when it's available and the end points are close. I have somewhat limited mobility these days so I can't just trek 10 or 12 blocks at both ends of every journey like I know some of y'all do in places like Seattle, but anything up to 4 or 5 blocks I can manage unless it's extremely hot.