The city of Indianapolis is building a new airport terminal scheduled to open next year.
The airport will be double its current size, and I'm wondering if they will have these pod things at the new airport. Although I understand a full service hotel will be attached to the airport, something like this would be nice for those travellers with layovers in Indy of only a few hours.
David, I copied this from the IND airport website because I thought maybe you might find it interesting. I don't know what all of this means, but maybe you will. I hope it's good, because this new airport is EXPENSIVE!
The New Indianapolis Airport:
Midfield Terminal Project
Largest development initiative in the City of Indianapolis’s history
Virtually a new airport
New FAA Tower is the 3rd tallest in the United States
Located within 16 minutes of downtown
Will have direct highway access from Interstate 70
New Passenger Terminal Building
Total area – 1.2 million Square Feet
500 feet of terminal frontage on 1000-foot, 2-level curb front
“Civic Plaza” – large pre-security gathering and concessions space with 200-foot diameter skylight
Domestic baggage claim area 73,000 SF
Central baggage processing area 145,000 SF
Number of domestic gates 38
Number of international/domestic gates 2
Length of each concourse 1,300 FT
Width of each concourse 100 FT
1,100 doors
10,000 light fixtures
11,000 tons of steel (including concourses)
Moving walkways 10
Elevators 23
Escalators 10
Ticketing hall maximum height 82 FT to roof
Civic Plaza height 60 FT to roof
Concourse departures level maximum height 30 FT to roof
Ticketing Hall
Located at the departure level of the Terminal
Four islands of check-in counters, each island has up to 24 counter positions, twelve on each side
96 counter positions
16 curbside check-in positions
Gates
Each concourse provides access to 20 gates
Aircraft gates can accommodate a complete range of narrow-body and wide-body aircraft, including regional jet aircraft with passenger boarding bridge access.
Inboard gates can accept narrow-body aircraft up to B757
Outboard gates can accept both narrow-body and wide-body aircraft (B767, B787 and B777 aircraft)
2 international gates on the south concourse (Concourse A) can accommodate one A380 aircraft
International Facilities
24,220 SF Federal Inspection Services (Customs) Area
6 Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) positions
Can process 400 passengers per hour
For those of you who might be interested, more info about the new Indy airport can be found here...
http://www.newindianapolisairport.com/