Re:How to fuck up an airport
by nradov on Sunday July 03, 2022 @10:53PM
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Buses are a lot less efficient than proper jetways. Why are European airports so far behind?
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European low-cost airlines are terrible. They do everything they can to lower the fees they pay. That often involves skipping major airports, unless they can negotiate a cheap enough deal with the airport. Those deals tend to involve things that make the passenger experience worse, because the airports don't want normal airlines to choose the same deal.
If you choose a normal airline and fly to any reasonably big airport that's not overcrowded, you'll get a jetway outside exceptional situations.
I've flown on major airlines through German hub airports and was stuck riding a bus to the airplane.
Re:How to fuck up an airport
by bobthepanda on Monday July 04, 2022 @04:17AM
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A decent new airport or significant airport reconstruction costs probably $5B+ (DEN cost $4.8B in the 90s; Beijing Daxing cost $11.5B) In austerity-minded Europe there really isn’t money for this. Even if there was, NIMBYs and green campaigners mean there is very little appetite to pursue it politically.