Ghost terminal

Just past the Frontier gates, terminal D becomes a ghost town...that goes on forever.

Abandoned TWA terminal at STL (Lambert Field) St. Louis, Missouri.

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conneryguy says:

This has made for a very nice desktop today. Cheers!
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

p2wy says:

Thanks, Tex!
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

sosarem says:

Haunting... wow!
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

I understand that PIT has mothballed one concourse since US Airways downgraded it from hub to focus city. RDU in 2003 or so was pretty quiet. Possibly the weirdest I've walked through is the new international terminal at PHL, most of which is just empty.
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

p2wy says:

Interesting, didn't know about PIT. I should be passing thru RDU in 2 weeks so I'll check it out (the AA terminal looked pretty full last time I was there, but I hadn't checked out the others). I felt pretty weird walking through D at STL as I only saw about 3 people in the entire terminal...2 lost tourists and 1 employee. I had this suspicion that TSA was watchin' me! The airport map did say that they sometimes do charters down at the end of the terminal and it was open and well lit (and the walkways were on). Freaky.
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

racingsquirrel says:

Is this the giant area between AA and Southwest?
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

p2wy says:

So Southwest is down there too?!? Holy hike!
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

racingsquirrel says:

Yeah, there are two terminals 1 and 2. 2 houses SWA. So... just keep walking all the way past the conveyer, past a couple more empty gates, turn left, and walk another 3-4 minutes. Then you will see SWA and Burger King!
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

sfPhotocraft says:

It's sad......
Posted 42 months ago. ( permalink )

robertstinnett says:

In it's day, this ghost town once was full of people and shops. The mid 80s and very early 90s saw this concourse full of what seemed like non-stop flights, 24 hours a day. You would be lucky to find a seat to sit in most days.

Today, Lambert sits mostly a forgotten relic of time. Air traffic in St. Louis went on the decline after TWA was bought out by American. The planes stopped coming, the people left, the shops closed.

Even on the busiest day of the year you can walk down the endless hallways of this concourse and be lucky to run into more than 3 people. The monitors have all gone blank. The moving sidewalks still run with a constant hum -- but they are transporting nobody to nowhere.

All that is left is memories and ghosts of the past.
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

p2wy says:

@rob - thanks for the write-up..... it's a depressing place, especially how it looks so hurriedly abandoned!
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

Silvio Jose Miranda says:

rstinnett wow pretty nice story of what used to happen there
Posted 24 months ago. ( permalink )

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