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JENNI REID
These US
airports are
set to undergo
billion dollar
expansions and
improvementsA
nyone who travels into, out of or around the US
regularly knows that many of its airports have
struggled to cope with the rise in passenger traffic
over the last few decades. IATA predicts the
country will be the second fastest-growing market
until at least 2037.
To cope, a raft of upgrades and expansions are
underway across the country, from New York to
Salt Lake City. Here are ten of them, including the costs, capacity and
completion dates (the planned ones, anyway...)Work has started on a $2.8 billion new
South Terminal for Orlando International
Airport, which had 47.7 million passengers
in 2018. It needs it. When its current termi-
nal building was completed in 1981, it had 6
million passengers.
Expected to open in late 2021, the new
three-floor facility will be adjacent to the
South Airport APM Complex and Intermod-
al Terminal Facility, and will have 19 gates.
It will also add automated screening lanes
at TSA checkpoints, a new energ y-efficient
baggage claim system and facial recognition
technolog y for international arriving and
departing passengers.
It’s expected to increase the airport’s capac-
ity by 11 million passengers annually.
http://www.orlandoairports.net- ORLANDO INTERNATIONAL
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