THey were built long after American Terminals were built. Most of ours are expansion not new Al ----- Original Message ----- From: "Clay Wardlow" <clay.wardlow@xxxxxxxx> To: <AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 12:04 PM Subject: Frustration Hello Everyone... I'm reading a thread on airliners.net about US vs European terminal design. The start of it was someone wondering why there are so many great terminal buildings in Europe while the US has fallen behind the times. Of course there's talk about DEN being beautiful and "a work of art," however someone said it was too far away to be convenient. Now this comment actually irritates me. I want to comment on it, but don't feel that paying the $5/month would be worth me posting one comment, so I'm going to make my comment to you all. ;-) Yes, DEN is out a ways. However... let's look at the history of new airports that have been built "a long ways away from the city." DFW, IAD, IAH, MCI for examples. Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the only one left that is still sort of "a long ways away" MCI? DFW is in the middle of the city now, as is IAH and IAD feels that way too. I've read stories in the Dallas news papers of the time when DFW was built talking about the same thing people say about DEN being too far away. I doubt people would say that about DFW now. Now when people in the Dallas area talk about getting out to DFW it's usually how long they are stuck in traffic not that it's in the middle of no-where. I just want to ask this guy when the last time he was at DEN... there's all kinds of offices and apartments being built around the airport now. Before too long when the airport wants to expand, they're going to have to go through the "NIMBY" issue as any other airport does. GRRRRRR I just had to get that off my chest. :-) Clay - SEA