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Joined: 15 Jun 2005
Posts: 2316
Location: Indianapolis, IN

This is what happens when you are bored at 2am. Here is a list of the most efficient concourses. This takes the passengers served per concourse and dividing it by the number of gates.

Concourse C : 56,681 per gate
Concourse B : 48,890 per gate
Concourse A : 48,122 per gate
Concourse D : 32,249 per gate

The most amazing thing about this is that there are I believe two common use gates in the C concourse. The airlines operating out of C have made much better use of the space. Even with this great efficiency they could have run additional service with no problem. Concourse D was a model of inefficiency having handled nearly the same number of passengers as the B concourse despite having 4 more gates. If you consider NW treats 8 gates as 12 you could downward revise their numbers greatly. Based on 12 gates the average per passenger would be 32,084 and a dead last finish for efficiency. But there are only 8 physical jet bridges and I am just going by that.

These numbers are based on the June 2008 IND traffic report.

http://www.indianapolisairport...ds/docs/June%202008_5QHR21.pdf

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Joined: 18 Jan 2008
Posts: 106
Location: Indianapolis

Now how does that compare to other airports? I'm not sure if those are good, bad, or just average.

When I'm bored at 2am I go steal a car, I don't feel like crunching numbers.