Posted on 05/25/2006 8:53:37 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
LAX is at capacity. Qantas moved its Sydney departures from the Bradley terminal to Terminal 4 (the American Airlines terminal). Realize Terminal 2 is also used for international arrivals and departures by Air New Zealand.
While LAX might be fine to route traffic from the Rockies west to Australia, it cannot handle more flights, so Qantas needs an option for midwest, northeast, and southeast connections. Dallas is very well suited for this.
I have not been through the new DFW international terminal. However, I have been through LAX's Bradley terminal plenty of times, twice to catch a Qantas flight to Melbourne. While the check-in area is okay, the boarding concourse is a hopeless mess. It clearly was not built with enough space to handle six to eight simultaneous 747 boardings.
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