Originally Posted by
notEnuf
LOL best designed. It's not predictable you littery have a 33% chance at briefing the correct runway. The published arrivals state the exact wrong runway as the default. You are better off not guessing and reacting to the actual assignment and occasionally that gets changed too. The design of the airport may be good but the use of it to serve the pilots, which is the ATC customer base, is terrible. Down to the refusing to use the new loop and the M2 BS. DEN is a much better design.
LOL, yes it is. It is absolutely predictable (both coming and going), with about 85-90% accuracy with exactly ONE other arrival option 99.99999% of the time. Have someone explain the logic to you, and you will 'guess' right nearly every single time. The only true variable is 10/28. In the 88, we used to always program the secondary flight plan with a plan B. Flown both Boeing and Airbus since, and it's so easy to make that change no-one even puts in a plan B anymore.
But whatever, it's a silly thing to argue over. It's super efficient. And the busiest airport in the world (most years), and it runs like a finely tuned machine the vast, vast majority of the time. It's just not hard.
I'm sure everyone can agree, however, that Chicago (really
any United hub) is freaking terrible to get in and out of.