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...vast distances between outlying parking lots and terminal buildings. To link a new and distant parking area to its sprawling terminal, Chicago's O'Hare International Airport may install moving sidewalks. One Dallas parking lot is already connected to the terminal by Braniff's "Fastpark Jetrail," a passenger-carrying monorail. Los Angeles is planning an air-cushion vehicle route that by 1973 will link L.A. International Airport and a huge parking space 16 miles away, at the juncture of the San Diego and Ventura freeways. By 1980, air-cushion vehicles will connect Los Angeles with...
More Roads. Wherever new fields are built, faster ways must be found to speed the traveler through them. At Love Field in Dallas, Braniff International intends to do it partly through a "Fastpark Jetrail," a monorail that will convey passengers and their baggage from an outlying parking lot into the terminal itself. Airlines are spending $150 million altogether on automated ticket-writing equipment and on a joint reservation system. Between the two, a potential passenger could go to a supermarket, bank or hotel to determine plane space and buy a charge-card ticket, then be checked in by machine when...
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