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What is this plan for an airside PeopleMover? Where would it go? What technology?
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What is this plan for an airside PeopleMover? Where would it go? What technology?
What is this plan for an airside PeopleMover? Where would it go? What technology?
They haven't contemplated anything (yet). I assume it would go from Pier D to T3 below (or above?) where Jazz brings their smaller planes around the end of the terminal. It's not a long walk and doesn't need anything fancy. I assume it's just a moving walkway (and maybe a fast one like to the end of Pier for international flights).
It's probably longer to walk to the end of Pier D than it is to get from the end of Pier D to T3.
Why not connect each pier. It can be a long walk down and then back up a pier. If you put a station at the base (or halfway up) of each pier it would make it easy to transfer between each.
They haven't contemplated anything (yet).
DThey do have a plan for an air-side shuttle/train which could be built prior rebuilding the existing Link train and would accommodate nearly all time-sensitive airport customer uses.
The Pier's are US, Canadian and International each with different customs (and sometimes the Pier is 1/2 and 1/2). So we are only really talking about connecting Cdn with Cdn. Anything else would be overly complicated.
Conversely on the reverse trip the passenger should (emphasis mine) be able to connect to their flight to Winnipeg without passing through Canadian customs, they would, IMO, pass through customs at the end of their journey in Winnipeg.
That can't be done, other passengers on the flight would be domestic passengers, and must be segregated from international passengers. You would have to have an international connecting passengers only flight from Toronto to Winnipeg, just not practical.
A passenger arriving on a domestic flight from, say, Winnipeg and connecting to an international flight to, say, Abu Dhabi isn't going to have to pass through any additional security than what they passed through in Winnipeg. Conversely on the reverse trip the passenger should (emphasis mine) be able to connect to their flight to Winnipeg without passing through Canadian customs, they would, IMO, pass through customs at the end of their journey in Winnipeg.
voltz explained a logistical problem created if you allowed people to connect before clearing customs.....but I do not think that is the core reason.