This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Charlotte/Douglas International Airport article.
This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject. Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic. Please sign and date your posts by typing four tildes (~~~~). New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Ask questions, get answers.	Be polite Assume good faith Avoid personal attacks Be welcoming	Article policies No original research Neutral point of view Verifiability

WikiProject Aviation / Airports	(Rated Start-Class)	AviationWikipedia:WikiProject AviationTemplate:WPAVIATIONaviation articles
Aviation portal v • d • e This article is within the scope of the Aviation WikiProject. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the project and see lists of open tasks and task forces. To use this banner, please see the full instructions.  Start  This article has been rated as Start-Class on the project's quality scale. This article has not yet been checked against the criteria for B-Class status: Referencing and citation: not checked Coverage and accuracy: not checked Structure: not checked Grammar and style: not checked Supporting materials: not checked To fill out this checklist, please add the following code to the template call: | b1 <!--Referencing & citations--> = <yes/no> | b2 <!--Coverage & accuracy --> = <yes/no> | b3 <!--Structure --> = <yes/no> | b4 <!--Grammar & style --> = <yes/no> | b5 <!--Supporting materials --> = <yes/no> assessing the article against each criterion. This article has been marked as needing immediate attention. This article is supported by the airport project.

WikiProject North Carolina	(Rated Start-Class, Low-importance)	North CarolinaWikipedia:WikiProject North CarolinaTemplate:WikiProject North CarolinaNorth Carolina articles
North Carolina portal v • d • e This article is within the scope of WikiProject North Carolina, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of North Carolina-related articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.  Start  This article has been rated as Start-Class on the project's quality scale.  Low  This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

	WikiProject Charlotte	CharlotteWikipedia:WikiProject CharlotteTemplate:WikiProject CharlotteCharlotte articles
v • d • e This article is within the scope of WikiProject Charlotte, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Charlotte on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.

What does the "Douglas" portion of the name refer to? RickK 01:55 10 Jul 2003 (UTC)

I just answered that question. WhisperToMe 04:02, 24 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Contents 1 Changes of accident findings 2 Accident history 3 Most expensive airport? 4 Major Airport??? 5 Beijing 6 Rocking Chair Picture 7 Suspected Copyright Violating Text Removed

[edit] Changes of accident findings

Regarding the 1974 EAL accident at Charlotte:

I removed probable cause findings in the previous summary, because those were not in the offical probable cause finding of the NTSB report, and replaced with the correct wording. While the NTSB did discuss the possibility that both pilots had misread their altimeters by 1,000 ft., it was admitted that was tenuous speculation, at its best, so that was not an official finding in the report. I also changed the plane type from DC-10, to DC-9-31. --EditorASC 06:39, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

I cannot cite specific evidence, but my father at the time worked in communications for the Charlotte Fire Department and was on duty when the crash occured. He told me that according to accident investigators, the cockpit voice recorder indicated the pilots were busy talking about the then-new Carowinds amusement park, which they were flying over on approach. --SquareWave 00:46, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Accident history

Added info about the crash of USAir 1016 on 2 July 1994. --SquareWave 03:17, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Most expensive airport?

I have heard before that CLT is consistently one of the most expensive airports to fly out of. Does anyone have more information about this? --SquareWave 00:55, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Major Airport???

What's the deal of "Major Airport" behng listed at the top of the article? Theres not even a numer of the amount of passengers it serves each year. Until It can be proven that the airport serves more tan 30,000,000 passengers a year, it is cosidered a mid size. (Mid-size is 10 to 10 million passengers a year.65.163.203.130 18:57, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Beijing

Since the flight from PHL to Beijing originates in CLT, why is it not listed among the destinations?

The new flight will require a plane-change in PHL, which is a US Airways hub. Therefore, per WP:AIRPORTS, we don't list flights that go thru an airline's hub. Charmedaddict (talk) 03:26, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Rocking Chair Picture

Why is there a picture of a rocking chair in the airport? Am I missing something, but how is that relevant to, well, anything? Brett (talk) 01:35, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

The airport has many rocking chairs lined up in the concourse passageways for passenger use - definitely not a usual thing in major airport hubs. FCYTravis (talk) 01:43, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Suspected Copyright Violating Text Removed

I removed the following text from the Construction section of the article:

Charlotte/Douglas International Airport is getting ready to undergo a major facelift. Each day, about 100,000 people pass through the airport, a huge increase from when the current terminal opened in 1982, and next month, officials will begin planning a project to expand the ticket area. But to do that, the road and parking decks in front of the airport will soon be under construction. The project would expand the terminal into the current traffic lanes, allowing a better flow through the ticketing area. The traffic lanes would be rebuilt where the hourly parking decks currently are, and those decks would be torn down and rebuilt as one single, larger deck. Aviation director Jerry Orr says expansion is necessary because the terminal is way over capacity “Growth is going to come and our job is to anticipate that and make the best platform here that we can to accommodate that growth,” he said. The plan is also to have the car rental area as part of the new decks. None of the expansion will be paid for with taxpayer money; it all comes out of fees paid by passengers and vendors. The construction would not likely start until next spring.

The text comes directly from News 14 Carolina (http://news14.com/content/top_stories/598465/charlotte-airport-plans-expansion/Default.aspx) without any paraphrasing. The News 14 article was neither cited nor acknowledged.

Yitzhak1995 (talk) 00:54, 7 October 2008 (UTC)