As I was sitting in a plane for twenty minutes, taxiing from one end of this monstrosity to the other, I thought of this community! Inside the airport is even worse. It’s just this GIANT, sprawling mall+airport thing, with flat parking deserts in between terminals that are so far apart you have to take a monorail to them. Absolutely wild.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas_Fort_Worth_International_Airport
Six terminals, definitely. That far apart? IDK about that. SeaTac serves 125kish passengers per day and while you do need to board a little train thing between a couple of the stations, the rest of the terminals are walkable. (And the little train thing between terminals at SeaTac is a hop skip and a jump vs the DFW monorail.) DFW feels like they had the space so they just built it as big as they wanted. It reminds me of when I create giant mansions for my Sims only to realize it takes then an in-game hour to go check their mail. At some point it’s just no longer efficient.
To be clear, we flew through here and I am very grateful this airport exists! They got us home safe.