$2 BILLION IN COST OVERRUNS in 1994. Over a year in delays. Denver International Airport or DIA. DIA’s footprint is over 53 square miles and from the air the runway configuration looks like a swastika. Bizarre stuff.
“$2 BILLION IN COST OVERRUNS in 1994. Over a year in delays. Denver International Airport or DIA. DIA’s footprint is over 53 square miles and from the air the runway configuration looks like a swastika. Bizarre stuff.”
I went to HS with a gal that was an assistant and sometimes spokesperson for the Denver mayor at the time of the baggage handling cluster phook. She had to handle questions about that mess once in awhile.
I saw her at a HS reunion in 1994 and asked how that all went... questions and all. She was pretty guarded about telling me things, but pretty much said it was a time that she does not ever want to relive.
She was a cutie and whip smart in HS. I found out years later she was sweet on me. I was so naive during HS. (sigh).
I used to fly to Denver a lot when Stapleton Airport was still active, it was awesome and so much closer to my accounts there in the city.
Getting to and from DIA especially in the winter is a trek, not my favorite airport by any stretch and now we see what was really going on. If I remember correctly there was also a connection to a Clinton acolyte Federico Peña
https://www.cpr.org/news/story/meet-federico-pe-who-helped-decide-where-dia-and-why-it-needed-train