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| - We were at the "new" Pittsburgh Airport on opening day a couple of decades ago, and I'm happy to see that it's still spiffy clean, fairly vibrant despite the turnover of several carriers, and features some of the amenities of better airports. It's still short on places to plug in (except at Southwest), the security lines are unfortunately centralized due to the airside/landside arrangement, and of course since 9/11 the once great Air Mall concept has been for travelers only (before, you could go out and just shop there without a boarding pass, and it was actually a reasonable sort of mini-mall with the guaranteed street pricing program they once had).
But, the airport's too far from downtown and the public / ground transportation isn't reliable at all (waited an hour and a half for the 28x bus, which is supposed to run on the half hour, and then had to suffer through many local stops before getting downtown). Until they put in a modern express rail line, this will consign PGH to being a second-rate airport on world standards, despite its pleasantness and general airiness.` At least you can get an Uber here pretty easily and relatively cheaply ($20 or so downtown).
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