Charlotte-Douglas Airport (CLT) Expansion

[Guest]

31 minutes ago, Dale said:

Yeah, CLT is the only airport I’ve seen them use a dog in the TSA queue.

I've seen at JFK, and Newark. 

[CLTaviation13]

1 hour ago, ricky_davis_fan_21 said:

I've seen at JFK, and Newark. 

I've seen MSP do this as well. 

[KJHburg]

I know this has been posted before but now that the contract has been let and construction is set to begin in Dec.  good to see again.  I love this new design Charlotte's front door to the world.  

Just saw it on Twitter again    Lets hope construction is as smooth as this video. 

 

Edited October 29, 2019 by KJHburg

[Dale]

After hanging out in Denver, Nashville and Oakland airports, recently, our terminal improvements are quite nice. Denver airport was the eighth wonder of the world a decade ago, but is already starting to show its age. 

[Madison Parkitect]

1 hour ago, Dale said:

After hanging out in Denver, Nashville and Oakland airports, recently, our terminal improvements are quite nice. Denver airport was the eighth wonder of the world a decade ago, but is already starting to show its age. 

Yeah, but Denver has their secret New World Order alien base and CLT doesn't have that...

[TCLT]

New ATC tower with its night light on.

[Richhamleigh, DC]

Does anyone know the reason why there's no airport hotel at CLT?  Is it the only major airport in the US without one?  

Thanks.

[CLT2014]

2 minutes ago, Phillydog said:

Does anyone know the reason why there's no airport hotel at CLT?  Is it the only major airport in the US without one?  

Thanks.

Airports with a hotel not connected to the terminals:

LAX
Seattle
Las Vegas
Newark Marriott -> on "official" airport property, but still requires a shuttle bus
Phoenix
Fort Lauderdale
 

[Richhamleigh, DC]

17 minutes ago, CLT2014 said:

Airports with a hotel not connected to the terminals:

LAX
Seattle
Las Vegas
Newark Marriott -> on "official" airport property, but still requires a shuttle bus
Phoenix
Fort Lauderdale
 

Thanks.  I considered LAX hotels "on site" because there are majors immediately adjacent, but the standard is, correctly, "connected".   Thanks.

Edited October 31, 2019 by Phillydog

[CLT2014]

27 minutes ago, Phillydog said:

Thanks.  I considered LAX hotels "on site" because there are majors immediately adjacent, but the standard is, correctly, "connected".   Thanks.

Yeah Charlotte's airport hotels are in the LAX format where the Sheraton, Renaissance, Doubletree, et... require a 5 minute shuttle bus. 

[csweet]

If you look at master plans, once the new control tower is complete the old one will be torn down. This would make room for a convention center/hotel.

[CarolinaDaydreamin]

17 hours ago, CLT2014 said:

Airports with a hotel not connected to the terminals:

LAX
Seattle
Las Vegas
Newark Marriott -> on "official" airport property, but still requires a shuttle bus
Phoenix
Fort Lauderdale
 

I mean Atlanta still doesn't and its the largest in the world... They are just starting on a Hilton now.

[csweet]

Flew in last night and saw the equipment being put into place at the new A gates. Is the 7 gate addition imminent? 

[xapostrophe]

2 hours ago, csweet said:

Flew in last night and saw the equipment being put into place at the new A gates. Is the 7 gate addition imminent? 

next time im there ill look around.

the new old "a" looked like it was almost ready to open, at least from the outside, the cones and what not have been removed on the ramp.

[xapostrophe]

On 11/6/2019 at 10:01 AM, xapostrophe said:

next time im there ill look around.

the new old "a" looked like it was almost ready to open, at least from the outside, the cones and what not have been removed on the ramp.

So the South side of the old A is open, but nobody is using the gates, except Delta has one in use at the end.  Has to be expensive having all these Gates sit empty.

[hinsp0]

[CLT2014]

On 11/9/2019 at 3:33 PM, xapostrophe said:

So the South side of the old A is open, but nobody is using the gates, except Delta has one in use at the end.  Has to be expensive having all these Gates sit empty.

The airport tweeted this morning that American is starting operations today at gates A2, A4, A6, and A8.

[LKN704]

I wonder if AA will assign these flights to these gates randomly, or if they would serve flights to local travelers with minimal connections (LGA/DCA/BOS, for example) given the distance away from the rest of the operation in D/E.

[CLT2014]

29 minutes ago, LKN704 said:

I wonder if AA will assign these flights to these gates randomly, or if they would serve flights to local travelers with minimal connections (LGA/DCA/BOS, for example) given the distance away from the rest of the operation in D/E.

Doing a random search, the routes that have some of their flights departing from the A gates today (= # of flights leaving from A) seem to be largely in Central Time or further west:

LAX (2 flights)
PHX (2 flights)
SAN (1 flight)
LGA (1 flight)
DFW (3 flights)
IAH (2 flights)
ORD (2 flights)
MSP (1 flight)
MCI (1 flight)
AUS (1 flight)

Edited November 11, 2019 by CLT2014

[Mgelbach]

6 hours ago, LKN704 said:

I wonder if AA will assign these flights to these gates randomly, or if they would serve flights to local travelers with minimal connections (LGA/DCA/BOS, for example) given the distance away from the rest of the operation in D/E.

I can tell you for sure my flight to LaGuardia  (American) departed from A2 and across the walkway was a flight to JFK Airport (American or Delta it was too early to remember) 

Both departing at 6:00 am

 

 

Edited November 11, 2019 by Mgelbach

[TCLT]

I can tell you for sure my flight to LaGuardia  (American) departed from A2 and across the walkway was a flight to JFK Airport (American or Delta it was too early to remember) 
Both departing at 6:00 am
 
 

Across the way would be Delta. They have all the gates on the north side of old A.

[KJHburg]

New food court the Plaza opens in east Terminal between D and E with more new shops and restaurants and first Shake Shack.  Now up to 120 businesses inside the airport selling something.

https://www.cltairport.com/newsroom/the-plaza/

[Tyrone Wiggum]

This week we were supposed to land on an American flight at gate A8 but wound up in the C terminal.

So, let's talk about 'C' for a second.

We get off the plane and it's dark as hell and one of the passengers says audibly "what is this Mad Max" to which my slightly crazy friend (crazier than me sometimes, which is something) screams "follow me! FOLLOW ME TO FREEDOM!!!" and runs off in the wrong direction of where we need to go next.

People behind us were - justifiably - confused as hell, and given that half the plane was connecting, half a dozen people went in the wrong direction.

I'm glad that CLT is getting upgraded, but that C terminal looks like something out of Blade Runner right now.

[Temeteron]

I’ve wondered about this for quite some time:  can someone explain to me how we are 6th busiest in the nation and 9th in the world?  Other lists on the internet don’t have us in the top ten at all.  

[Tyrone Wiggum]

2 minutes ago, Temeteron said:

I’ve wondered about this for quite some time:  can someone explain to me how we are 6th busiest in the nation and 9th in the world?  Other lists on the internet don’t have us in the top ten at all.  

Flights not passengers.  Tons of takeoffs, not so many people on those takeoffs.