Airport leaders confident expansions will arrive on time, but airlines have aggressive growth plans
The opening of nearly three dozen new gates at Denver International Airport this year has its two largest carriers plotting rapid expansions that will test the busy airport’s ability to process millions more passengers and get them to their flights.
But they acknowledge that may mean trains linking the terminal with DIA’s three concourses will get more crowded at peak times than they’d prefer, potentially beyond the 50-person capacity per car that they base their calculations on.more than two years behind schedule Though the forecasts come with higher uncertainty because of the severe pandemic effects on air travel in the last two years, DIA’s traffic this year is expected to recover nearly to its pre-pandemic trajectory — almost as if the pandemic didn’t happen, and a remarkably fast turnaround from two years ago.
But the system’s 31 train cars, which operate in four-car configurations of up to seven trains, are getting old. The air conditioning frequently breaks down. But this spring, the higher crushes returned as spring travel exploded, especially during the early evening hours, Craft said. So they’ve needed all seven trains again at times.An Alstom staff member monitors the automated train system at Denver International Airport on Friday, May 27, 2022.
The availability of an eighth train will expand capacity by 13% at the busiest times, to about 7,500 riders per hour in each direction, DIA spokeswoman Stacey Stegman said.Under DIA’s passenger traffic projections, Washington said, that will be enough to keep up with near-term growth in traffic among passengers for several years.
DIA’s recently released $3.1 billion capital plan for the next five years doesn’t yet include the platform modifications, but it does budget a train order with Alstom to replace the 15 remaining older cars. That order hasn’t yet been proposed to the City Council. Steve Jaquith, DIA’s chief operating officer — and a former United executive in Denver — said he was comfortable with DIA’s plans to expand the train’s capacity.
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