Originally Posted by
Andy
I'll file that EWR plan in the same file as the 20+ year (ago) plans for
1) Expansion of IAD, getting rid of the 'temporary' C/D terminals. There was actually a little hope when they built the underground train. ... ever wonder why the C/D train terminal is in such an odd place?
2) Terminal 9 for LAX.
Both of the above plans had environmental impact studies completed more than 20 years ago.
A new C/D at IAD has historically always been a funding issue between United and MWAA for many years. United didn’t want to fund the project pre-Kirby days since they believe the juice wasn’t worth the squeeze at one point and the MWAA when way over budget with A/B project and underground train that caused the airport fees to balloon….
It took the state of Virginia to step to push the MWAA to start cost-sharing between DCA/IAD thus lowering IAD fees and then United all of a sudden saw a new opportunity for Dulles within its network….