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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Best bet: speedy, frequent buses ($1.55). New subway extension will begin operation in February. Flow Through: excellent, although no sidewalk checkin. Check-in at downtown terminal for intercontinental flights. Baggage carts. Layout: confusing, but improving. Three separate terminals linked by moving sidewalks. Longest unassisted walk: 950 ft. Baggage, immigration and customs checkout: painless. Hotels/Motels: excellent. Eight within a mile of airport. Amenities: humdrum minimum. Functional lounges. Nine short-order buffets, three coffee shops, open 24 hr. One restaurant, being rebuilt. Ten bars, three open 24 hr. Supermarket-like duty-free shops selling wide range of goods. Refinements include animal hostel...
...airlines. Delays: average half an hour. Accessibility: good. Allow 20 to 30 min. by car or cab ($10) for seven-mile ride downtown. Excellent train and bus service (400). Flow Through: brisk, although no sidewalk checkin. Baggage carts. Single terminal traversed by moving sidewalk in 4 min. Longest walk: 1,800 ft. Baggage check-out and immigration: efficient. Customs: you could bring in an elephant. Hotels/Motels: fair. Two hotels, the Sheraton and Steigenberger, at airport. Amenities: everything imaginable. Three snack bars, one coffee shop. Twelve restaurants, best of which is Rôtisserie 5 Continents. One bar, open noon...
...Delays: foreign, rare; domestic, improving but no cigar. Accessibility: bad. Allow 45 min. to an hour by car or cab ($15) for 22-mile ride downtown. Flow Through: slow. No curbside checkin. Baggage carts hard to find. No moving sidewalks. TV screens, showing departure gates, not always functioning. Longest walk: 1,300 ft. Baggage checkout: 20 min. Immigration and customs: airport's only delight. Hotels/Motels: pleasant, modern facilities near beach at Ostia, five miles away. Amenities: substandard. Coffee bars (espresso 30?, Coke 57?). Best restaurant: International Airport Restaurant. Ten bars, open 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.; one in international...
...Plentiful baggage carts. Sidewalk check-ins, or passengers take escalators from entrance to check-in counters, then the moving sidewalk up plastic tubes to departure floors. Boarding via moving sidewalk (4 min.) to one of seven satellite stations. Audio-visual machines and bilingual signs help guide lost passengers. Longest walk: 750 ft. Baggage, immigration and customs: fast. Hotels/Motels: sparse. Sofitel-Jacques Borel within airport boasts the best view for the Concorde takeoff, another hotel 1 ¼ miles away. Amenities: superb. Le Bistrot sidewalk cafe; five restaurants. Best: Maxim's. Four bars, open 24 hr. Arcade of tax-free boutiques...
...mile ride downtown by easy-to-get cab ($10). Buses every 30 min. ($2.50). Monorail (92?) takes 15 min. to edge of town. Flow Through: agonizing. Jampacked terminal with baggage carts between pickup turntable and customs inspection. Porters on hand. Moving sidewalks; longest unassisted walk: 100 ft. Baggage, immigration and customs checkout: allow an hour. Hotels/Motels: Air Terminal Hotel inside building. Six hotels near by. Amenities: sorry. Two coffee shops, plus five restaurants (one Chinese, two Western, two Japanese). One bar, open 8:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. Tacky duty-free shops. Barbershop. First aid available. No services...