Talk:Orlando International Airport

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Concourses are attached to the main terminal, such as Miami International. Airsides are separate buildings not attached the the terminal. Terminals are buildings that hold the check-in/arrivals areas. If there's only one terminal with not separate areas for gates, then there's no concourses or airsides. If there are two separate attached gate areas, those areas are called concourses. If there is one terminal with separate satelite buildings attached by trains/walkways that hold the gates, those are called airsides. If there is more than one building holding check-in/arrivals areas, then those are different terminals and can each have their own separate councourses/airsides, such as is the case with John F. Kennedy International Airport. PRueda29

What is an airside, and how is it different (if at all) from a concourse? Answers by edits to the article would be sufficient. Nohat 07:38, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)

From what I understand, GOAA calls MCO's 4 different terminals airsides instead of concourses becuase they're not connected to the main terminal via hallways or other customary methods of connecting buildings (rather, they're just connected by the AGTSs). Theoretically, each airside has 3 concourses (except Airside 2, gates 100-129, which has 2)--since, generally, concourses are considered long hallways with gates. --VCA 16:13, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

I assume AGTS is what is described in the article as a "people mover"? All this needs to be clarified in the article because the terminology is obscure and confusing. Nohat 00:54, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] B52 Crash?

Why hasn't anyone mentioned the B-52 crash in 1971? Granted, most of Orlando's made up of transplants now, but it was a big deal then. A whole lot of kids were killed in the crash as well as the aircrew. I refuse to do it because im sick of people nitpicking and calling me a liar here but someone else can if they want to put up with the nonsense from petty wikipedia czars.

Thank you for your suggestion, in futre could you make it a new section of the article such as I have just done. If you can cite the source for the B-52 crash, and you can write it in Wikipedia's style guide it should be fine, and help the article. Do not be scared not to do it.Tjnewell 10:27, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Multimodal

I removed the commentary stating that MCO would be the first multi-modal airport in Florida. This is a curious statement given that ALL airports are multi-modal. (An airport that wasn't multi-modal would only have airplanes land and take off from it, there would be no cars, buses, etc.)

User:cliffb 05:24, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Accidents/Incidents

Does anyone else find the current sole entry for the accidents section totally non-notable? Apparently the aircraft made an emergency landing after an engine failure. The accident itself didn't happen in Orlando (the aircraft was only destined there) and no one was hurt, the plane wasn't even severely damaged, let alone written off. I don't believe it is worth mentioning here, as the quotation provided is a typical mainstream media overstatement/dramatization, and the event wasn't exactly rare. Engines fail all the time. Anyone else with me for removing it? --KPWM_Spotter (talk) 03:38, 29 December 2007 (UTC)