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[uptownliving]

Here are some pics of CLT on 9/11...look at all the planes!!!


Control Tower and Statue of Queen Charlotte getting blown by all the Jets in front of the terminal.


Concourse E with AirForce 1 and downtown Charlotte in the background.


Concourse A


Concourse B


Concourse C


Concourse E back when it was under construction.

Unfortunatly I don't have any pics of Concourse D.

[Neo]

Look at all of the cops in the picture of Concourse B.

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[cityboi]

What an excellent view of Charlotte from the airport!

[turlough]

Cool pics It looks like every cop in Charlotte is there one other thing look at all those parked airplanes:( They don't make money on the ground

[turlough]

You could do like those guys at JFK did but you would have to go though the woods

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[turlough]

I think it was back in 2001 about middle november an TLC was talking about our nation's airport and CLT was ranked number 2 in best safety They showed some things about the stuff and security and the airport and they showed how CLT had two of only seven machaines in the world

[Shawn&Zae]

yea, CLT at the time was the only airport to use that eye scannin machine, and then it set the trend for that security feature.

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[Neo]

donaltopablo, on Aug 14 2003, 01:38 AM, said:

Nice pics!  I love the one of airforce one taking off with the skyline in the background.  Does Charlotte's airport have any major expansion plans?

They do actually.  There was a post over at SSP so maybe it'll be reposted here but it included a 4th runway and I think an extension of an existing runway to handle cargo from Asia or something like that.

[uptownliving]

RDU has a taxiway that runs over the road that takes you to the GA area and the remote lots.

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[uptownliving]

CLT Douglas Airport is responding by building a 25 Gate expansion...construction is already underway...no joke.

[Nostyle]

expanding, while US Airways plans to decrease flights...what's the logic?

[BrandonTO416]

Expanding by 25 gates is insane under this environment. This is exactly what is plaguing Pittsburgh right now.

Pittsburgh has an entirely brand spanking new airport (relatively speaking) that opened in 1992 - and the SOLE reason for their outrageous operating fees is due to the fact that US Airways hasn't been able to pay down debt to pay the terminal off - because the terminal was designed and delivered to them for the sole purpose of running their main hub @ PGH under the old hub-and-spoke system.

Now that US Air doesn't have the demand to keep that up, the airport fees are tremendous.

If Charlotte "invests" in this, look for either high, less competitive airport fees or higher taxes if CLT decides to make taxpayers the fallback for the decision.

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