Four major art projects for new KCI terminal revealed

[cosmo20002]

I was fine with the old shitty airport where I could be on the plane, and then one minute later be outside of the terminal.

[Donger]

Originally Posted by cosmo20002

I was fine with the old shitty airport where I could be on the plane, and then one minute later be outside of the terminal.

Yep. At DEN, it's a good 25 minutes from getting off the plane until you're in your car.

[Pablo]

Originally Posted by cosmo20002

I was fine with the old shitty airport where I could be on the plane, and then one minute later be outside of the terminal.

Yeah, it's pretty easy. But at least now we can have out of towners say stuff like "Wow, this airport has convinced me KC is a first rate city!" and "They had a PF Changs, this is truly amazing!"

[KCUnited]

Dammit, more walking required

[-King-]

Originally Posted by cosmo20002

I was fine with the old shitty airport where I could be on the plane, and then one minute later be outside of the terminal.

It is a great airport when everything is running correctly. But it's the worst place to be when you're early, there's a delay or there are long lines or anything like that. Being early at MCI is ****ing torture. I'd almost rather risk missing my flight and show up as late as possible than show up early and have to sit in the gate where there's one 2 stall bathroom and your choices of food are almost expired cold cuts or snack foods.

[DaneMcCloud]

Originally Posted by -King-

It is a great airport when everything is running correctly. But it's the worst place to be when you're early, there's a delay or there are long lines or anything like that. Being early at MCI is ****ing torture. I'd almost rather risk missing my flight and show up as late as possible than show up early and have to sit in the gate where there's one 2 stall bathroom and your choices of food are almost expired cold cuts or snack foods.

The two "restaurants" in the old airport were a disgusting joke.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by -King-

It is a great airport when everything is running correctly. But it's the worst place to be when you're early, there's a delay or there are long lines or anything like that. Being early at MCI is ****ing torture. I'd almost rather risk missing my flight and show up as late as possible than show up early and have to sit in the gate where there's one 2 stall bathroom and your choices of food are almost expired cold cuts or snack foods.

Yeah. It may have been a fine airport before the stupid terrorists screwed everything up, but it sure seems like there should have been a better way to design it post-9/11.

DEN had the bad luck of opening just a few years before 9/11 so it was probably the newest large airport in the country that wasn't designed for security. I wasn't flying as much in those years so I don't recall what it was like when it first opened. I think the big security area today was mostly open lounge. But they had to implement a notable change in passenger flow to put the security infrastructure into the terminal, which then turned the main visual focus into a bunch of lines of people. I remember being a bit disappointed in the change, but it's not like there was a choice.

I guess my point is that the 9/11 changes probably affected different airports differently. None of them were going to be good. DEN's was okay in the big scheme of things just because they coincidentally had a big open area that could be repurposed. KC's airport seemed like it was a really bad change.