When it fails? It is already delivered early and on budget.

Southwest just restored service to pre pandemic levels.

What exactly do you think is going to happen? Are people going to stop coming to and from Kansas City? LMAOLMAO

They will like they have always done cancel flights that aren't full and eventually cut back altogether. The airlines including Southwest have no interest in paying for KC's airport if they don't make money those flights will be cut off. No one is going to make a hub here is no reason. The city is trying again to get an international route but the airlines see what Iceland Air did. Briefly had traffic then petered out to nothing and it was shut down. The food and drinking establishments are already struggling with employees bailing and traffic waning. They may get a shot in the arm with the draft maybe not.

The number one air traffic to KCI is freight just the way it is. Sad for a city steeped in airline history but KC and city hall in a nutshell lost that along with the racetrack and all that went in around it.

On budget? The one billion airport that ballooned to nearly 2 bil.

ChiefsPlanet is amazing. "Our new airport is dead on arrival and it's probably because they put art in it."

This downward spiral you are speaking of is news my friends actually involved in the operation of the airport day to day. Food and beverage places anywhere always overhire early and cut back from there that is just how that business goes. Look, it is fine that you have hated this project from the start but no need to make things up.

You are literally HALF A BILLION dollars off. LMAOLMAO

Did you get harmed as a child in a new airport when you were young? What happened to make you feel so compelled to make things up out of thin air.

https://www.kcur.org/news/2023-02-02...t-opening-date

What is made up?

Who is this airport expert? name them so I may laugh.

Kansas City have gotten more for the money they agreed upon to spend...

You just posted about the dishonesty of KC and City Hall. The voters voted for a 1 billion airport and you let the airlines con you into more. Like I said and have said you're not going to see Southwest or any other airline fulfill that promise. They are not paying for our airport as soon as it's not profitable those gates will be barren.

I have no dog in this fight at all. Hope it works out not only for KC but for the airlines and travel in general. Why are there 50' high ceilings with cathedral glass and no 2nd floor in AN AIRPORT??? Is it going to be a practice facility for the NFL and college football teams when it gets slow? And it's not like there's ever been a tornado in Missouri.

I won't even begin with the overhead problems on climate control and construction costs that went and will go into that decision but do you think 99% of people buzzing through an airport to get on their next flight even care?

What KC does effects me about as much as billay's sex life so my interest lies more in the WTF led you to that decision as opposed to personal attachment.

I honestly with nothing but the best for the new KC airport.

I dunno, their art budget was apparently one third of one percent of the $1.5 billion, and if you're spending that much on an airport, why not make it look nice?

I imagine some people would be pissed if it looked just as dreary and outdated as the old airport with people bitching along the lines of "$1.5 billion and they couldn't even make it look nice?!?!"

I've been in a lot of airports and have walked by a lot of art and what not... I still remember Atlanta's glowing tunnels from when I was there ~15 years ago. It didn't change my life, but I assume didn't bankrupt Atlanta and probably makes people smile for a minute. :shrug:

One thing that I will mention about art is that it can serve as a waypoint or meetup spot, which is important in a place like an airport. Plus, it's better for morale than wandering through some sort of East Germany concrete block structure built at the lowest bid. As human beings, we no longer dwell in the primeval forest, so we need to have some type of beauty in our environment.

I really enjoy walking through Denver's airport and deciphering the clues left behind by the alien lizard slave laborers.

"I'll see you when you get to Denver. Grab your bags, walk past the apocalyptic mural, and I'll meet you at the demonic gargoyle."

It is funny getting involved in an art at the airport conversation with a person who lives in Denver. The art the stories and urban myths behind the art at DIA are absolutely wild.

It's a conversation starter!


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