Why Denver Airport Is INSANELY Big
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ก.ค. 2024
- Denver International Airport is one landmark that'll always spark curiosity. Sitting majestically across the high plains of Colorado, this airport encompasses a staggering 53 square miles,which means that it dwarfs many cities and even outshines the iconic island of Manhattan in terms of sheer size. The airport is nearly thrice the size of San Francisco and about nine times the size of LAX. It is also the second largest airport in the world by size, coming in second only to the six-story King Fahd International Airport in Saudi Arabia.
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Everyone keeps on forgetting about how some of the land was owned by mayor Federico Peña’s former law firm. I know investigators found Peña was far enough removed not to create a conflict but that’s one heck of a coincidence.
It's definitely controversial, but it means they built the airport so it could accommodate those *LONG* runways and also is not a noise pollution problem because the airport is so far away from the center of town.
Or DIA’s failed baggage system.
The airport has an... interesting shape
Shaped like that due to wind. Denver gets some really nasty wind those 40-60 mile per hour gusts will get you
@@pacmanlives I don't think that's what he means
My Argentine grandpa is curious about the shape as well, because he keeps raising his hand every time they show an aerial shot of the airport
I've lived in the Denver area all my life, and DIA has been there for all of it. I'm pretty sure it's so big just because that's the best way to build an airport. Compare it to any one of New York's THREE airports and the difference becomes clear.
I work at Denver international airport for the city of Denver and we are projecting that the airport does 1 million passengers through the airport sometime within the next 10 years.
It did about 78 million people in 2023 making it the 6th busiest airport in the world.
@@robertmustell your right I ment to say 100 million not one.
I bet half of them are lizard people too!
As big as it is, it has one good feature: by the time you get to baggage claim, your baggage is waiting for you (or nearly there).
53 sq mi is also larger than San Francisco, which is 49 sq mi.
Atlanta Airport is the busiest in the world but only 7.5 sq mi - about 1/7th Denver. It's not even in the top 10 in size.
Having been to DIA and Hartsfield, the width of the alleys between concourses at DIA substantially larger than at Hartsfield of the United terminal at Chicago-O'Hare.
I've been on American flights that could not push back from gates on Concourse T, because of traffic taxiing on the alley between T and A.
That can't happen at DIA, because of the increased space.
Despite United being headquartered in downtown Chicago, it's adding more seats and flights at DIA than at ORD.
Great Video, no idea how you got only 1k subscribers
Thanks for the kind words!
One thing about DEN. Get TSA Precheck. Regular TSA check line is long.
And plan to be there a solid 2 hours before your flight
Despite the long lines for security at DEN/DIA, they are very efficient and move surprisingly fast. I recently flew DEN to LAX and back. When I got to DEN (via the train from downtown Denver), the line for security was so long it snaked around towards baggage claim. There were at least 300 people ahead of me. Nonetheless, I waited no more than 12 minutes before it was my turn to go through security. A minute or two later I was on the train heading to my concourse.
My experience at LAX couldn't have been more different. When I arrived at the terminal for my airline at LAX (after fighting traffic) there were maybe two dozen people ahead of me in the security line. Even so, it took a good 45 minutes for security to get through those 24 people ahead of me!
I'll take the long, yet efficient, security lines at DEN over the short, chaotic, and inefficient lines at LAX any day!
Those big airport are not the most pleasant and confortable places to be.
looking at the terminal, it looks more like a bus terminal, have you seen the new Istanbul Airport? Singapore Changi? Dubai International? Qartar Hamad? I doubt DIA would be above them in terms of passenger experience
DEN is my home airport, and I have been to Changi recently.
The actual terminals at Changi were fine, but I wouldn't say that they really stand apart compared to any of the more recent airports in the USA. The Jeppesen Terminal and many gate areas at DEN are a mess right now with the construction projects, but the areas that have been completed are generally slightly nicer than the equivalents I saw at Changi.
Where Changi absolutely crushes any US airport is the Jewel. You have a real supermarket with normal-ish prices, not the limited selection and high prices you always see in US airport concessions. You have a beautiful greenhouse and waterfall. You have tons of great food options, including Singapore and other Asian cuisine and western cuisine too, with reasonable prices. You have a movie theater!
The reality is that DEN probably wouldn't be able to make most of these amenities work because it overwhelmingly serves domestic flights. The Jewel works because many, many people have multi-hour connections in Changi on long-haul international flights, which makes a mall and amenities a natural fit. DEN has a lot of connecting traffic, but it is overwhelmingly shorter connections that are deliberately timed as part of flight banks. That's convenient if you want to get to your destination quicker (few people are going to want a 4 hour connection between domestic flights if they can avoid it) but it limits the sort of airport amenities that make sense financially.
@@BrianCairns different airports function differently based on their purpose, many airports like DXB, Chang-e, Swiss Airport, etc., all offer a wider customer experience rather than just being a terminal to wait for flights, I've been to LAX, JFK, DFW, it's just not close to having a great appeal to customer experience. Even Narita and Haneda just had so many gimmicks within the aiport to make your day super fun
singapore airport has good hotels like the crowne plaza and ambassador transit hotel
and bangalore airport has a lot of life which is like singapore changi
Looks like a logo that a German man liked
There are tons of conspiracy theories about DEN.
It is the most effective way to lay out the runways.
That symbol far predates the German guy with the tiny moustache. It's long been a symbol of good fortune in Hindu and Buddhist cultures. In fact, the name commonly associated with the symbol is not German, but Sanskrit.
Might want to check your geography, Denver is far from being in the central US. For instance, Denver to LA is a 2hr - 15min trip, while a flight from Denver to NY is 4hr and 10 min, not exactly a center starting point for either destination. Where as Dallas, which is far more centrally located in the US (but more south) a flight to NY is 3 hrs and 30 min and a flight to LA is 3 hrs - now that more like a central location and most likely why it outranks Denver in passenger volume.
Did an AI or a very inexperienced human write this? 😴
dfw and ord have the most runways at 7 and 8 respectively which are both aa hubs
ORD is also a United hub (Chicago is where United has its HQ) as is DEN.
Terminal B (which is the one for United) is long but has a good layout.
DIA currently has six, the longest of which is the longest commercially used runway in North America at 16,000 feet long. The airport is designed to accommodate 11 runways total.
the AI generated voice is quite jarring
It’s a real human voice
@@PragmaNetwork no it aint
They should lose that demonic horse.
Blucifer (aka Blue Mustang) is one of the best things about DIA! It's a massive (32 feet tall), yet beautiful sculpture. And a definite conversation starter. Did you know the sculptor was killed when the massive head section fell on him? His children ended up completing the sculpture in his honor.
Nope.
ALL HAIL LORD BLUCIFER!