Kansas City has a weird airport. It wasn't particularly set up to be able to deal with 9/11 security requirements. Their solution has been to set up one xray machine/scanner for every couple of gates. Assuming that both gates are in the same cordoned off area, you should be fine. However, I don't know that there's anyway of finding that out ahead of time.
Personally, I wouldn't chance it. However, depending on the airline, most will get you a seat on the next flight out if you miss a regularly scheduled connection due to tight timing on their part.
Kansas City has a weird airport. It wasn't particularly set up to be able to deal with 9/11 security requirements.
Did they actually change how the checkpoints were laid out or was the airport designed that way? (I can't really remember flying to Kansas City as a small child and I didn't again until I was an adult.) Because the one checkpoint to one/a few gates model is used at Berlin Schönefeld, Schiphol* and Frankfurt and part of me suspects it might be more efficient than the one checkpoint per concourse model, as you can theoretically then have only one flight's worth of passengers going through a checkpoint at once.
I don't know that I have good anecdata here, though. In Frankfurt, I was very early, so there was no line. Presumably had there been a central checkpoint, there would have been a line. Schiphol was a bit of a clusterfuck, to be honest, as there were inadequate seats on the far side of the checkpoint and it was kind of unclear what was going on.** I wasn't stupidly early to Schönefeld (well, I was, but a fair number of people had arrived when the check-in desk opened) and there was maybe a two person line.
*Sort of. Schiphol is divided by passport control and a security checkpoint into a section for Schengen Zone flight and one for flights to non-Schengen destinations. If you're flying to a non-Schengen destination, you go through security at the gate. That way everyone goes through security at Schiphol, even if they're only transiting without going through passport control. **This may have been because I didn't understand how Schiphol is meant to work. On my way to Germany, I was really confused when we landed, as you walk out onto the concourse when every other airport I've been to, you get funnelled into passport control.
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Date: 2011-02-15 06:51 pm (UTC)Personally, I wouldn't chance it. However, depending on the airline, most will get you a seat on the next flight out if you miss a regularly scheduled connection due to tight timing on their part.
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Date: 2011-02-15 08:53 pm (UTC)Did they actually change how the checkpoints were laid out or was the airport designed that way? (I can't really remember flying to Kansas City as a small child and I didn't again until I was an adult.) Because the one checkpoint to one/a few gates model is used at Berlin Schönefeld, Schiphol* and Frankfurt and part of me suspects it might be more efficient than the one checkpoint per concourse model, as you can theoretically then have only one flight's worth of passengers going through a checkpoint at once.
I don't know that I have good anecdata here, though. In Frankfurt, I was very early, so there was no line. Presumably had there been a central checkpoint, there would have been a line. Schiphol was a bit of a clusterfuck, to be honest, as there were inadequate seats on the far side of the checkpoint and it was kind of unclear what was going on.** I wasn't stupidly early to Schönefeld (well, I was, but a fair number of people had arrived when the check-in desk opened) and there was maybe a two person line.
*Sort of. Schiphol is divided by passport control and a security checkpoint into a section for Schengen Zone flight and one for flights to non-Schengen destinations. If you're flying to a non-Schengen destination, you go through security at the gate. That way everyone goes through security at Schiphol, even if they're only transiting without going through passport control.
**This may have been because I didn't understand how Schiphol is meant to work. On my way to Germany, I was really confused when we landed, as you walk out onto the concourse when every other airport I've been to, you get funnelled into passport control.