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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Who cares about the name?? It’s been called Dulles for so long that even if you change it now, people are still going to call it Dulles.
The name is not the problem. The most offensive thing about that airport is the mobile lounge / people mover things that they still use, and are about to spend millions of dollars renovating instead of building an underground railway. I literally hate the place because of those things. I don’t hate any other airport, I don’t hate a train or bus station or any other entity. But Dulles sucks so bad- It’s like we have a 3rd world airport in our nations capital, and as soon as DCA or BWI have international flights, I’ll never have to fly out of Dulles again .[/quote]

Wow, are you unhinged!  There IS an underground train there already.  And the people movers are no big deal.  Dulles is infinitely better than National or BWI.  [/quote]

The underground train serves only 1 terminal, and does not move any of the passengers on international flights. They should have built the underground train for the entire airport, but didn’t due to cost. Now they are about to waste millions refurbishing the people movers. As someone who flies frequently, there is literally no other major airport in the world that makes passengers get off a plane and then have to wait in line, board one of those things, wait around 10 more minutes for the stragglers coming off the plane to get on, be crammed inside, travel across the tarmac and then wait to get off again, all before you’ve even gone through customs. It is a 3rd world airport.[/quote]

Flew into Schipol in June, had to go down the stairs, crowd into a bus, ride to the terminal and then begin the mile long walk to customs.  I don’t love the Peoplemovers, but yes, there are other inconvenient airports.[/quote]

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