Zombie Jon Snow said:HollywoodBQ said:Zombie Jon Snow said:
IAH - nowhere near Houston it's like if DFW was in Mckinney, terrible traffic getting into it, terrible routing around terminals, parking sucks, endless construction and since it's like one path through the airport you are always impacted. And exiting is even worse. And no metro rail option at all. Every terminal is different, every parking and pickup method is different. No continuity at all. And they've landlocked themselves so any growth is a major impact. The people mover train in the basement is an archaic joke that must be 40+ years old.
If you think Intercontinental is out there... you'd never make it if you lived in Denver.
.wrt to the rail between terminals, yes, the clown car in the basement is hilariously outdated.
It's been that way for 50 years that I'm aware of.
These days, there is a train between terminals that is above the terminals but it's not well marked in my opinion. And if you're on United, it's easier to just walk between C-D-E.
The main thing other than construction that is screwed up at Intercontinental is the way they do the Uber pick-up. The Uber line completely blocks the parking garage entrance. Extemely poor planning.
Intercontinental has plenty of land/runways, etc. But yeah, it has grown far beyond what the original Jet Era plan was 75 years ago.
Your comment about how far out from Houston the airport is, is pretty funny considering IAH is 15 miles from downtown Houston. DFW is 15 miles from downtown Dallas and 18 miles from downtown Fort Worth. Same or arguably better.
Wasn't talking about distance from Downtown.
But from huge parts of Houstons metro population - Katy, Pearland, Sugar Land, etc. anything south and or west of downtown. Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think a lot of people live in downtown Houston. But sure for those living in Houston center or just on the north side it's not bad.
But DFW is very centrally located not just to BOTH downtowns... but Arlington, all of HEB, C/FB, Lewisville, FM, GP, Addison. Even Frisco is not bad with 121. I mean tons of DFW populations is inside the two anchors right where DFW is. And half of the population of those cities (west side of Dallas, east side of FW) is also close. Of course it sucks for Mesquite, Allen, McKinney but those are getting out there
And I am very familiar with Denver.
Just ignore The Woodlands, Spring and Kingwood which is right next door to IAH.
Funniest thing about when DIA was my home airport - getting a ticket for going 70 in a 70 on E-470 because I was in a Jeep Grand Cherokee and passed a Highway Patrol guy in a Z-28. Took him 7 miles to catch me.
