Charlotte-Douglas Airport (CLT) Expansion

[CLT2014]

New Jet Bridge arriving for Concourse A

https://twitter.com/CLTAirport/status/984402810589663233

New Flight Information Screens rolled out in Concourse E (to be in all concourses eventually)

https://twitter.com/CLTAirport/status/984132129423491072

Edited April 12, 2018 by CLT2014

[eastsider]

[HighRiseHillbilly]

I gotta be honest with y'all....my eyes glazed right over every post in this thread until I had to drop someone off at the airport the other day. Even though I didn’t go in and they aren't done, that place looks leaps & bounds better than it used to.

Guess I got some catch up reading to do now.

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6 hours ago, HighRiseHillbilly said:

I gotta be honest with y'all....my eyes glazed right over every post in this thread until I had to drop someone off at the airport the other day. Even though I didn’t go in and they aren't done, that place looks leaps & bounds better than it used to.

Guess I got some catch up reading to do now.

In five years, you will really be impressed...

[Miesian Corners]

Here’s a look at one of the tunnels. 

[stiluvclt]

The light pole on the edge of the new elevated drive ......is that part of the revised plans that include the beautiful giant canopy?

 

 

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36 minutes ago, stiluvclt said:

The light pole on the edge of the new elevated drive ......is that part of the revised plans that include the beautiful giant canopy?

 

 

I missed that...good catch!  Doesn't seem big enough but it's the right shape and location.

[Midwoodian]

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2 hours ago, Midwoodian said:

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i see a bridge already on a gate over there.   

 

went to the end of b con. today renovation is coming along down there. looks nice.brighter.

[KJHburg]

From the CLT airport twitter feed today.  One Passenger Boarding Bridge installed, eight to go. Concourse A Expansion - Phase l

[KJHburg]

Here is a flyer inserted into the Business Journal I scanned as a pdf file.  It shows the timetable for the concourse renovations etc.  

The first part is the bottom half of the document sorry scanning error. 

CLTairportflyer.pdf

[videtur quam contuor]

Carolina's...? 

[deleted]

Tampa has a very nice airport (ours won't compare even after the renovation).  However, there is something to be said for avoiding two trains to get from your gate to the car rental garage).  And I'm sure ours will be much less expensive (which is our biggest advantage).  Terminals at CLT feel like a war zone right now though...

[NcSc74]

16 minutes ago, JBS said:

Tampa has a very nice airport (ours won't compare even after the renovation).  However, there is something to be said for avoiding two trains to get from your gate to the car rental garage).  And I'm sure ours will be much less expensive (which is our biggest advantage).  Terminals at CLT feel like a war zone right now though...

I was curious to why you made such a statement about the caliber of airport TPA is as compared to what CLT will be so I looked up some pics and vids.  TPA funnels flyers to the central terminal building using trams, I'm guessing wheeled, from the concourses.  Sort of like a hub and spoke concept.  Its a novel idea and probably a good idea at the time but you are probably right about the financials.  I'm sure the maintenance cost for the trams and bridges are significant.  The hotel incorporated in to the termianl is nice but CLT can't justify that now.

The pics of the main termial are good.  I think the food/retail options are what put it over the top of CLT.   But I think it is just right for a toursit destination such as Tampa area.  Exterior kind of reminds me of McCarron with the parking garage configuration.  CLT has some catching up to do though.  Tampa is mature city  compared to Charlotte so the infrastructure disparity shows.  Thanks for the info though next time I'm in Tampa I won't be so confused about how TPA looks from Veterans expressway. 

[KJHburg]

Public comments for the 4th parallel runway to the FAA

https://www.faa.gov/news/media_advisories/news_story.cfm?newsId=22674&cid=TW647

[tozmervo]

So this is getting into some infrastructure weeds, but how does the airport handle stormwater requirements with an area of pavement as large as a runway? 

[dubone]

I don't know the real answer, but was curious about the topography, so I clicked this:

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.210374,-80.943381,14.36z/data=!5m1!1e4

Looks to me like in general they just make sure there is a stream outflowing lower than the runways.  

[uptownliving]

On ‎4‎/‎23‎/‎2018 at 12:55 PM, tozmervo said:

So this is getting into some infrastructure weeds, but how does the airport handle stormwater requirements with an area of pavement as large as a runway? 

Found this presentation that should have all the answers you are looking for (and more):

http://www.cltairport.com/AboutCLT/Documents/Stormwater Pollution Prevention Training 2017.pdf

There is 62,000,000 sq ft of impervious surfaces at the airport so it does take quite a system to handle all of that runoff. 25 different outfalls going into 4 different creeks. On top of that they have a constant monitoring program to make sure nothing illegal goes down the storm water drain (such as the dreaded blue sewage from all the airplanes).

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On 4/16/2018 at 5:26 PM, eastsider said:

it occurs to me that the canopy thing cannot be installed until the terminal front is built as it appears to attach to the roof of it.  so that its probably  just a light post that will simply exist until then.

[KJHburg]

With such a large hub here at CLT these should be successful. Minute Suites with showers at the airport open May 1

.https://www.bizjournals.com/charlotte/news/2018/04/26/passengers-at-charlotte-douglas-can-catch-some.html?ana=e_ae_set5&s=article_du&ed=2018-04-26&u=oAaDx%2B74FoP4qOJ%2By4AU6dhJPpc&t=1524770574&j=81251781

[Guest]

41 minutes ago, KJHburg said:

With such a large hub here at CLT these should be successful. Minute Suites with showers at the airport open May 1

.https://www.bizjournals.com/charlotte/news/2018/04/26/passengers-at-charlotte-douglas-can-catch-some.html?ana=e_ae_set5&s=article_du&ed=2018-04-26&u=oAaDx%2B74FoP4qOJ%2By4AU6dhJPpc&t=1524770574&j=81251781

can't wait to use these ;-)

[uptownliving]

On today's American Airlines 1Q Earnings Call the management repeatedly singled out the CLT hub as one that they will be growing as they gain more gates. So expect more new flight announcements as AA exapnds into Concourse A and in Concourse E.

[teeg]

23 minutes ago, uptownliving said:

On today's American Airlines 1Q Earnings Call the management repeatedly singled out the CLT hub as one that they will be growing as they gain more gates. So expect more new flight announcements as AA exapnds into Concourse A and in Concourse E.

They mentioned 7 (I think) new gates online in 2019.  Was that the E expansion?  

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59 minutes ago, uptownliving said:

On today's American Airlines 1Q Earnings Call the management repeatedly singled out the CLT hub as one that they will be growing as they gain more gates. So expect more new flight announcements as AA exapnds into Concourse A and in Concourse E.

Sounds like the only thing holding back our move up the total passenger leaders list is capacity (which is pretty cool).

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20 hours ago, teeg said:

They mentioned 7 (I think) new gates online in 2019.  Was that the E expansion?  

i would bet its expanding into A as united, swa, air canada jet blue frontier and spirit move into the new A concourse.  leaving those gates open for AA.

when e construction is complete it seems to me (working up there all the time) that we will have roughly the same number of gates.  just they will have bridges on most of them instead of walking outside.  the signs in E go to 50, by my count we should end up with about 45.