At this point, I’m not even sure airports are real.
WeirdGoesPro
joined 1 year ago
The buildings that provide access to the airplanes (via gates) are typically called concourses. However, the terms "terminal" and "concourse" are sometimes used interchangeably, depending on the configuration of the airport.
So it seems the final answer from Wikipedia is that a terminal is the whole thing, and a collection of gates is a concourse, but a concourse is also a terminal, even though the concourse is in the terminal, which means that terminals are in terminals, and the rate at which an airport grows large enough for their concourses to be terminals is called the “terminal velocity”.
Did I miss anything?
Fair enough. I thought I was being misunderstood as serious, but it seems I was just off the mark for some people.
The baggage check area often leads to multiple lettered sections with collections of gates.
If the terminal is all of it, what is the letter designated collection of gates called?
Maybe I should have started all this by saying I’m not an airport expert. I’m a dude who has flown on planes before.
I’ve always understood the terminal to be the waiting area that the plane pulls up too—in other words, the journey terminates at the terminal gate. Yes, I have only ever seen that area assessable after you’ve passed security—at least it’s been that way post 9/11.
If there is some nuance here where a terminal includes some parts outside of security, just say that. The tone I perceive in your post seems to be trying to make me look like a fool, and I don’t appreciate it.
The article says “officers responded to [an incident in] terminal J”. Every airport I’ve ever seen, large and small, have had the terminal behind security.
No problem, start the Kamala Harris SuperPAC and you can give however much you want.
How did the attacker have a knife in a secure terminal?
But Bernie is invincible. /s
Thanks.