iow the good old days.

Airports are for getting on and off of planes, not a fashion mall with curated dining experiences. Put yourself in the shoes of the average Joe trying to get his family to their once in a lifetime dream Disney vacation. The guy is already going to have a hard time making the mortgage payment next month because of what it’s costing him to do all this and then the final insult is ripping them off as a captive audience to overpriced one-word sit down restaurants.

The kids are hungry, cranky and losing their minds and dad has to explain to them what aioli is or farm-raised means when all they want (and will eat) is food ordered by number and served by a cartoon character. I doubt they are impressed by the ability to get a Coach bag or a Brooks Brothers suit in a gd airport, and neither am I.

Put all the expensive stuff in airports, sure. I’m sure it looks great in the promos but give people economical, familiar calories to fill our pie holes between flights so we can get through the day and on to the next flight.

 

I like DTW. But SLC is simply the best. Most ontime hub. Efficient. Fast de-ice, with pads short of the runway. Super friendly culture of above+below wing agents. Spacious, esthetic concourses. Moving walkways. Plenty of gate seating. Food court seating areas. General public atrium lounge seating areas. Something actually scenic out the windows. Cleanest hub airport I've been through. Even ramps look tidy, organized, and esthetic (as opposed to the filthy ramps and eyesore sheet-metal of ATL's exterior). Great pilot lounge, private sleep rooms and nice gym. Even distribution of food price points ($$$, $$, $) with no raised airport pricing. Healthy options and greasy spoon options, multiple genres of cuisines, good mix of chains vs regional food. DTW food is meh. What makes DTW unique is that train. Wish SLC had that for those A1-A49 connections. That's the biggest compaint, but not that big a deal to me.

 

Yes, please.

 

This customer is not in our target demographic. They fly on Frontier/Spirit/JB & AA. Our customers pay the premium & want the Foo Foo stuff in the terminals. Our PS checks reflect this. More & Better choices, at the higher pricing point is the winning formula.

 

That place is trash. I'll never eat there again and hope it gets replaced soon. T4 could definitely use a better food venue in that location on the B concourse.

 

Cant wait for the Chopped Salad place to open, but they are building it in the wrong place.

I like the LGA food options way better and it doesn’t take 25min to get to them and fighting every pax that doesn’t know how to use a loving walkway. JFK needs a major overhaul…

 

I would like to eat my words here and say that, arriving on a DH coming back to DTW, we sat waiting for a gate for about 15 minutes.

 

gate a75 is the worst.

 

Yes , he plans on bringing back the 88/90 and the 74’s and merging the WO and bringing back Song .

 

We need the L1011s and 72s also.