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It’s insanely big because of what’s underneath it, but we’re apparently not allowed to discuss that because it’s a “conspiracy theory”….just like how cell phones listening to our conversations was a conspiracy theory.

I remember watching the parade of equipment when it opened.

Because it’s busy. I simplified it for you.

This video is nonsense… o’Hare is a major international hub not to mention all the international cargo that comes in and that is not in small regional jets. Also O’Hare has 16 runways not 8

It's done on purpose to make you depressed.

Frontier used to be a Colorado based airline with mid range quality and nice perks (and some really good fresh baked cookies). After they sold off to some whoever from whocares they really took a dive. Now they're just ass with wings. Pay the extra money and fly United.

The only downside to DIA is the tram. There is no alternative if the tram stops working

Its the west get used to it. Pro houses.

I give the airport a Nein out of Ten

Some pilots probably wish that ORD would have kept one of the 14-32 runways. Runway 14R-32L was 13,000 feet long! And, winds at ORD can howl out of the northwest, especially in the winter after a cold front passes.

One of the critical elements that made it possible for Denver to be a "hub" is that modern airplanes can now take off in the rarified air with more fuel. When we were traveling from Stapleton to Frankfurt yearly the plane (DC10, old 747...) in the 70's and 80's we would have to land in Minneapolis because it didn't have enough fuel to make the full trip. Returning was no problem. In the summer it gets quite toasty in Denver and the air is simply too thin for a full load. That seems to have been fixed now as we can go straight in.

This video seems clueless about the embarrassing opening of DIA with a non-functioning baggage claim system, and the endless Great Hall re-construction that has plagued DIA passengers since 2018. Two contractors have come and gone, and the airport authority is currently “managing” the rebuild on its own. The Great Hall was supposed to be finished and running by 2022. It is now scheduled for completion by the end of 2027. Just in time for the same people to be planning the addition of 4 new terminals to be completed by 2045.

Interesting how poor the international connections are to Europe and Asia. I've lived half my life in the Indo Pacific region, never flew from Denver despite that I go all over the US when I fly back.

It is covering up a government military base below it. That is 100% obvious based on what we know about the construction time. The busiest airport in the US is ATL with 7 sq miles. It is also a busy airport with gate transfers, not with arriving passengers. DIA does not need to exist as no one is actually flying to denver. Everyone is being subsidized to use it as a hub when no one needs to use it. Kansas City would have made way more sense for a hub. Then they put a temporary tent fabric roof on an airport with snow. But the tent roof allows them easily change the configuration underneath without anyone watching. Building this airport was the only way to hide construction of a large underground military base and hide all the deliveries and people arrivals. Satellites have no way of knowing what is for military operations and what is for the airport. The government is literally subsidizing everything at this airport. It is the cheapest for any carrier to use it as a hub, it has the cheapest gate fees, it has the cheapest land fees for hangers, it has the cheapest ticket fees for passenger transfers, it has the cheapest terminal fees, it has way more slots for aircraft and more gates than it could ever need. Any other military project is out in the open for satellites to view. This base cannot be seen or analyzed by satellites.

Very informative video

Every runway at ORD can land/depart a 747. Also other than DEN (which has a more modern/optimized layout) no other major airport also expects to handle the same volume with accumulating snow.

Just landed at DIA yesterday and noticed the brand new floor is already cracking. Yikes!

I remember when Cheyenne Wyoming was the Main Airport in the region, an served as United's HQ prior to building Stapleton. I also seem to recall when research was being done as to where to locate the new airport for the Rocky Mountain front range, the recommendation was to build it closer to Cheyenne due to cost. That way it would be more centrally located and could provide easy drive time from Scottsbluff NE, Laramie and Cheyenne Wyoming, Ft Collins, Loveland, Greeley Colorado, and other small town, and eliminate or reduce the need to maintain Airports in those cities. Denver would have use high speed rail to get passengers to and from the cites in the Denver Metro Area, but Pena who was in charge of making decisions for the Federal government at the time, and was from Colorado, forced the issue to build it outside of Denver at a considerable increased cost.

It's actually over 50 square miles, not just 20

This guy clearly has no idea what he's talking about.

It's not chicago airport. Call it by its name. There's midway airport too. But the reason why it's so large is because it's an international airport. That's it and that's all. Alot of people travel to, from, and through chicago. You wasted 12 minutes over something that could've been explained in a short.

Denver is the largest in the u.s. ..Dallas is 2nd Chicago is 3rd by size.

has anyone else realized that DEN looks like a sw@st1ca?

I always questioned why other airports didint have the metro thing lol now i realise its just cause dia is so damn huge

DIA is the 3rd busiest airport in the country and the 6th busiest in the world. It's on track to have 80 million passengers in 2024. It needs to be big to handle the growth. Pena knew Colorado would grow , and he had the foresight to locate the airport where it had room to grow.

Lots of positive comments here. I don't completely agree. The security lines can be really long--usually, but not always, they're shorter if you walk the bridge to Concourse A. As with all airports, the parking isn't convenient, especially in the outer lots and when the weather is bad. The trains to the concourses are pretty good even when mobbed.

One budding problem is now they are building neighborhoods closer and closer to DIA, and the people that move there have the audacity to lodge noise complaints about all the airtraffic.

Duh because it's such a big airport also Chicago has two airports in case you don't know ORD and MDW and they're also international airports both of them so yeah

there are 16 runway and 8 pavements. You count runway on both ways

I live about 15 minutes from DIA and after dozens of flights in and out I have it down to a science. Mostly fly Southwest and they have a beautiful new terminal there. With TSA pre check it usually isn’t too bad getting through security. Before I got it there were times when security could take a really long time. For a first timer DIA can be pretty intimidating. Safe travels everyone 😎

As someone who lives in Colorado, it’s like a fucking maze ✋😭

Went there this month and oh boy its even has a subway train

Way to say the same 3 things over and over to pad the length of your terribly researched video

DIA was built before 9/11 designed with pre-9/11 security in mind. The idea was to have an airport hub where people connecting to another flight could take a train to the terminal where there is a large 2 story open mall that would be lined with quality retail and restaurants on two levels. That mall is now filled with nothing but security and a few businesses along the sides. No one with any sense comes to the main terminal between flights where they would have to go back through security...how the world has changed since 9/11.

I though it was kinda small cause I live in a area with no city 100 miles away from us

You are so repetitive.

You did not mention the ski industry

Okay, this has to be something spit out by some kind of content mill, right? American style English language voice, but the English language data card at the beginning is using hat appears to be Indian/metric measurements? (I can't think of anywhere else that uses lakh.) I wonder if it was a largely AI generated script? Or was it generated by hand, shipped for a voice over and/or AI voiced, and churned out to capture ad revenue? What's the model here? Whatever it is, it would explain why the title card is so odd. "Why is Denver Airport so big?" is bad English. It should be "Denver's Airport" or "the Denver Airport" (which is still odd) or "Denver International Airport". It would also explain other linguistic quirks: "thrice" closely followed by "nine-times" is not a natural sentence composition. The comparison of DIA's 53 square miles to Kind Fahd's 6 stories is nonsensical. The use of a metric/metres based info card up front with a square-miles area is unnatural. The stats/graphs shown are to be unrelated to the voice over. The first one is the 2022 busiest airports by passengers normalized to Hartsfield-Jackson and entirely unrelated to size, and unsorted with entirely unlabeled axes. This data was published by the New York/New Jersey Port Authority in 2023. The second chart is obviously modified from a template that used a Monday-aligned week (the US largely uses Sunday-aligned weeks -that is listing days Sunday-Saturday on a calendar) and is similarly unlabeled and unsorted. The fact the video uses "DIA" is interesting too, though. It's various airport codes use "DEN" - DIA is a colloquialism. But, any script written by a fluent English writer wouldn't phrase sentences the way this video does. And the subtext on the "in this video we'll" section is not actually summarizing information in a correct manner, suggesting some kind of generated content is being copy-pasted or otherwise clipped from search engine snippets or similar. "Remember the old Stapleton International Airport" sounds like a local-news report doing an anniversary retrospective shortly after DIA opens. It's not appropriate language for the audience of this video, which has to be assumed to be non-local viewers who don't know anything about Stapleton. Add that to "The high altitude hovering over above about" is bad - though unfortunately common - grammar. But "5,400 feet" makes no sense. Denver is the mile-high city. Anyone using imperial units would cite the Airport as being "about a mile above sea level", which suggests a metric-first writer (for whom the number "5,280" is meaningless.) 5,400 feet. And, given that we're shown snowy/winter conditions in a section about long runways, that suggest a non-technical writer. The length of the runways is more important in Summer, when soaring temps cause the air to thin out, making take-offs much harder. And, the "residential areas" photo is from ~1900, not relevant, and clearly just stock footage. And, again, naming mistakes. "Adam County" instead of "Adams County" accompanied by a video clip (and audio) which is 25 years too late to be related to the Denver-Adams County land transfer deal used to create DIA. In fact, the man speaking in the clip is Erik Hansen, and Adams County Commissioner from 2010-2018. And then, the airport opening in '95 is tied to its current position as the third busiest airport in the US. Just, first quarter of the video, and it's one uncanny-valley-esque thing after another. I can't unsee it now. What's the motive here. What's the purpose? Where's the con or the catch or the grift?

I always avoid Denver due to the turbulence. Absolutely terrible every time. No thank you!

It looks like a swastika

I have lived in Denver all my life

CO born and raised. All hail Blucifer

Of course UA-cam serves me this video within an hour of me passing thru DIA for the last time for the foreseeable future! It's quite an airport and I'm glad to see them making the much-needed infrastructural changes as traveller numbers continue to grow

Why does this guy keep saying Ohare international is small and doesn't have alot of traffic and domestic, it's actually ranked top ten and the top airports aren't that far ahead 😅 from Ohare

Denver has probably the best airport in the country. You can fly literally almost anywhere from there being nearly in the middle of nation. You can fly to all those little airports in Montana as well as all the major cities. If you have to travel all over the nation, this is the place to live.

To answer this question "Because they can" lol I guess but I really like the airport. It does take some time to taxi like more than O'Hare and DFW but the airport itself is legit. Concourse B is outstanding and with United being my primary airline it's a decent connection

If that imagige is correct then that n/s runway is at least 15 miles long. Made up images....blocked

I’m a Phoenix native, but DIA is one of my favorite airports in the country I just love everything about it… The enormous scale, the distinctive roof of the main terminal, the layout with the concourses connected by underground train, the efficiency of it, the wacky & conversation-starting artwork, etc

The airport has to match the ego of the Denver people, that and crime and homelessness.

Much easier to skip Denver and fly non-stop coast to coast. It will eventually lose passengers and flights.