December 7, 20186 yr ^My understanding was the garage is delayed to understand the impact of ridehailing and other services on parking needs in the future.
December 7, 20186 yr 1 hour ago, ink said: ^My understanding was the garage is delayed to understand the impact of ridehailing and other services on parking needs in the future. Interesting, that must have happened pretty late in the game. I know they had applied and received approval for three tower cranes to build the facility.
December 7, 20186 yr That was the reason for the delay, but the Dispatch reported last week that work has been approved to move forward. Relevant bit from that article: Quote The car-rental facility was recently paused for several months while a final study was conducted on the project. The airport authority voted in August to pay consulting firm WSP $276,840 for the study. Among the things considered were passenger and rental-car trends, along with the effects of car-sharing services such as Uber. As work resumes, the projected opening date for the building has been moved back from late 2020 to mid-2021. Griffin said that no additional costs were incurred beyond the expenditure for the study. Edited December 7, 20186 yr by .justin
January 2, 20196 yr Columbus airport sees record year and flight gains CEO Joe Nardone says gains are “just the beginning” as passengers are expected to hit a record 8 million. More flights and record numbers of passengers — if these are the measures of success for an airport CEO, Joe Nardone is wrapping up a stellar first year as head of the Columbus Regional Airport Authority. John Glenn Columbus International Airport was poised in 2018 to hit 8 million passengers in a year for the first time. That tops 2007, when short-lived Columbus startup Skybus Airlines helped the airport reach 7.7 million passengers, and last year’s second-highest tally of 7.5 million. https://www.dispatch.com/business/20190101/columbus-airport-sees-record-year-and-flight-gains By the end of November ridership had already hit 7.4 million for this year; an increase of 7.4% for the same period last year year. If that growth rate held true for December, 2018 ridership should be about 8,030,500. With new daily flights to 3 west coast cities on large jets, we should be well into the 8 million range for 2019, maybe even approaching 9 million. If we are simply able to replicate our growth rate, we should hit 8.5 million regardless of the new flights that will be added. Also included in the article is this bit about adding direct routes to Europe: The one big goal that has remained elusive is an international flight to a European gateway such as London, Paris or Amsterdam, catering to business travelers. While declining to get specific, Nardone strongly hints that such a flight could have been secured for Columbus had the community been able to come up with several million dollars to provide a fund commonly referred to as a revenue guarantee to an airline for the first two years of service. This setup is designed to protect the airline as it devotes resources to establishing and marketing a flight that’s likely to take months to become profitable. Such funds have been established in neighboring states, helping to attract international flights to such cities as Indianapolis and Pittsburgh. Indiana has set aside $15 million to attract air service; the Pittsburgh airport has been getting more than $12 million per year from state gambling revenue to help defray operational costs for airlines. A group of Ohio airports and aviation supporters has been lobbying for state-level incentives in Ohio and has met with JobsOhio, the privatized economic-development group, but ultimately was unsuccessful in getting incentives under the Kasich administration. “We’ve done our part,” Nardone said of the airport authority’s development efforts. “Now, the question is whether or not this is a priority to the business community.” Indianapolis-based aviation consultant Andrew Vasey agreed with Nardone that getting outside funding will probably be necessary for Columbus to land an international flight. “These minimum revenue guarantees are usually required for a medium hub city to attract international service,” Vasey said. “Cities like L.A., San Francisco and New York don’t need them. ... From an airline perspective, you’re cannibalizing traffic on your existing flights at some point when you put in a new route to a city like Columbus. Those passengers now won’t be on the connecting flights they’re on now, so they’ll need to be replaced.”
January 7, 20196 yr The additions for John Glenn International keep coming. Frontier is adding four-times-weekly flights between Columbus and Raleigh-Durham beginning May 1st. https://www.dispatch.com/business/20190107/frontier-to-add-flights-between-columbus-and-raleigh-durham Their are also rumors circulating that a direct flight to Amsterdam could be coming to Columbus in 2019 as well....not sure how substantiated the rumor is though. Edited January 7, 20196 yr by cbussoccer
January 7, 20196 yr 10 minutes ago, cbussoccer said: Their are also rumors circulating that a direct flight to Amsterdam could be coming to Columbus in 2019 as well....not sure how substantiated the rumor is though. This would be amazing, but ... what's the source of these rumors? Are we in "mainstream aviation magazine gossip and speculating" territory or "some guy with a Twitter feed" territory?
February 5, 20196 yr I'll wager that most posters here don't receive the print version of the Columbus Dispatch. If so, you missed this full-page ad on the back of the most recent Sunday business section from the Columbus Regional Airport Authority -- that's the organization that operates John Glenn and Rickenbacker Airports. The Columbus Regional Airport Authority ad thanks the federal government workers who were forced to work unpaid in our local airports for over a month during the recent federal government shutdown. I'm posting the ad here because I thought it was a decent and classy move to thank these federal workers by the CRAA:
March 8, 20196 yr Too soon to celebrate? As Seattle flight takes off, Airport Authority CEO has his eye on ticket sales The launch of Columbus' new Seattle flight may have you ready to celebrate, but don't pop the bubbly just yet. Columbus Regional Airport Authority CEO Joe Nardone said there's a little more that needs to get done before people can call the flight a true success story. "Ultimately, this is about selling tickets," Nardone told me. "We have these new flights, yes, but we need to continue to support these flights to make them happen." More below: https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2019/03/07/too-soon-to-celebrate-as-seattle-flight-takes-off.html "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
March 8, 20196 yr 9 hours ago, ColDayMan said: Too soon to celebrate? As Seattle flight takes off, Airport Authority CEO has his eye on ticket sales The launch of Columbus' new Seattle flight may have you ready to celebrate, but don't pop the bubbly just yet. Columbus Regional Airport Authority CEO Joe Nardone said there's a little more that needs to get done before people can call the flight a true success story. "Ultimately, this is about selling tickets," Nardone told me. "We have these new flights, yes, but we need to continue to support these flights to make them happen." More below: https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2019/03/07/too-soon-to-celebrate-as-seattle-flight-takes-off.html I actually watched the first flight from Seattle land yesterday as I was driving home from work. It's pretty exciting that we are adding more direct flights out west, but like Nardone said, we need to support those flights by buying tickets which I think will happen. So far in 2019, we seem to be off to a good start with passenger volume at both John Glenn and Rickenbacker up ~10% in January. If we can continue this trend throughout the year, which I think is doable with these added flights coming on line, our passenger volume should be close to 9.5 million by year end.
March 21, 20196 yr Joe Nardone, CEO of the Columbus Regional Airport Authority, is working on adding some additional nonstop flights to Columbus. Domestically, San Diego tops his list as there are 116 passengers traveling there from Columbus each day. Also on his list are Austin (80 passengers daily), San Antonio (76 passengers daily), and Kansas City (73 passengers daily). Internationally, Tokyo, London, and Paris are the main goals. Tokyo is currently the number one international destination from Columbus with an average of 47 passengers each day. London also sees 37 daily passengers and Paris sees 17. https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2019/03/20/air-service-wish-list-there-are-the-flights.html If we end up adding all 4 domestic cities he listed, we will have daily direct flights to almost every major US city. The only ones missing, that I can think of, would be Portland, New Orleans (I think we have a weekly flight on Southwest), and Sacramento. I also think Windsor Locks could be addition. Internationally, adding any one of those cities would obviously be huge. Paris or London would probably be more popular for vacationers, but Tokyo would definitely get a ton of use by business travelers and Asian students traveling back home. There would obviously be some tourism use for Tokyo, but London and Paris would definitely see more of that.
March 22, 20196 yr 13 hours ago, cbussoccer said: Domestically, San Diego tops his list as there are 116 passengers traveling there from Columbus each day. Also on his list are Austin (80 passengers daily), San Antonio (76 passengers daily), and Kansas City (73 passengers daily). Good list. Of these cities, Columbus has had nonstop to all except SAN at one point or another, with the latest being Frontier offering a seasonal, weekly schedule to both AUS and SAT. The former was discontinued, not sure if the latter will come back. Both I would think could be supported weekly and seasonally with Frontier - we'll see if Nardone can make it happen. Southwest to MCI is a no-brainer, but apparently route expansion there is on hold until they get a new terminal going. 13 hours ago, cbussoccer said: The only ones missing, that I can think of, would be Portland, New Orleans (I think we have a weekly flight on Southwest), and Sacramento. I also think Windsor Locks could be addition. Agreed, I'm surprised PDX and BDL are not on the list. Both could probably work with a Frontier-type schedule, however it would be great to see Delta resume CMH-BDL, a route they flew up until 2008.
April 18, 20196 yr New Rental Car Facility Under Construction at CMH John Glenn Columbus International Airport will begin construction on a new rental car facility on Wednesday, April 17. The new facility will span 10 acres and would allow travelers to drop off and pick up rental cars from a new, centralized location. The upgrade promises 40 percent more garage parking and is slated for completion in mid-2021. Priced at $140 million, the new facility will be one of the largest construction projects in the airport’s history and will be funded through rental car user fees. More below: https://www.columbusunderground.com/new-rental-car-facility-under-construction-at-cmh-tm1 "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
April 30, 20196 yr Frontier Airlines Launches Nonstop Flights From CMH to Raleigh-Durham Frontier Airlines has launched nonstop service from John Glenn Columbus International Airport (CMH) to Raleigh-Durham International Airport (RDU) in North Carolina. Columbus is one of eight cities to launch nonstop flights, which also includes Boston, Jacksonville, Philadelphia and Tampa. More below: https://www.columbusunderground.com/frontier-airlines-launches-nonstop-flights-from-cmh-to-raleigh-durham-tm1 "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
April 30, 20196 yr ^ Speaking of adding flights...the ridership numbers are out for March and CMH continues its strong and steady growth, posting a 7.5% YTD ridership increase over the previous year. Spirit and United appear to be leading the charge so far with a 125% ridership growth and a 17% ridership growth respectively. American and Delta have experienced modest increases of 6% and 5%, and Southwest is flat to last year. Air Canada and Frontier are the only decreases, though they make up very little of the overall ridership meaning they have little impact on the totals. With new flights to San Francisco, Salt Lake City, and New Orleans still to come, it looks like CMH will continue another year of strong growth. Hopefully we can get a few more direct flights announced throughout the year as well.
May 3, 20196 yr On 4/30/2019 at 3:17 PM, cbussoccer said: ^ Speaking of adding flights...the ridership numbers are out for March and CMH continues its strong and steady growth, posting a 7.5% YTD ridership increase over the previous year. Here's a little more about those ridership numbers for March from https://www.dispatch.com/news/20190424/cargo-flights-strong-here-but-down-around-globe "The slight softening in cargo traffic was one of the few downbeat notes in the monthly report from the Columbus Regional Airport Authority. More flights and more passengers once again went through John Glenn Airport during the first three months of 2019 than in the same months the year before. In the first three months of 2019, 12,056 flights landed in John Glenn, up from 11,926 flights, and 1.9 million passengers used John Glenn, up from 1.8 million during the same time last year."
May 6, 20196 yr On 5/3/2019 at 11:56 AM, Columbo said: Here's a little more about those ridership numbers for March from https://www.dispatch.com/news/20190424/cargo-flights-strong-here-but-down-around-globe "The slight softening in cargo traffic was one of the few downbeat notes in the monthly report from the Columbus Regional Airport Authority. More flights and more passengers once again went through John Glenn Airport during the first three months of 2019 than in the same months the year before. In the first three months of 2019, 12,056 flights landed in John Glenn, up from 11,926 flights, and 1.9 million passengers used John Glenn, up from 1.8 million during the same time last year." Note that the slight softening in cargo traffic was more than offset by increases in cargo at LCK. Total cargo for Q1 2019 increased by 10 million lbs compared to total cargo for Q1 2018, and it increased by 20 million lbs compared to total cargo for Q1 2017.
June 3, 20196 yr Ridership figures have been published for April, and CMH is continuing a healthy 7% year over year growth. The month of April saw a passenger total of 703,896. That's an increase of 5.8% compared to April of last year. The total passenger count for the year is up to 2,649,447; which is an increase of 7% compared to last year. All commercial carriers have experienced year over year growth with the exception of Air Canada (5% decrease) and Frontier (47% decrease). The largest percentage increases have been by Spirit (90%) and United (17%). American (6%) and Delta (5%) have seen modest increases, while Southwest (.2%) is flat to last year. Of note, if you add in Allegiant's YTD passenger total of 79,037 (which is down 15k compared to last year), CMH is actually ahead of CVG for the year. CMH+LCK finished about 400k behind CVG last year.
June 10, 20196 yr Airport Authority CEO: Direct flights to San Francisco are a result of thriving business community By the time the United Airlines airplane was off the runway in Columbus and en route to San Francisco Friday morning, Joe Nardone was already headed to another meeting. Nardone, the CEO of the Columbus Regional Airport Authority is always busy, meeting with fellow Columbus power players, securing new flights and making sure the current ones continue to be successful investments. Take the San Francisco for example. The city is the national hub for tech startups and the venture capitalists that fund them – an industry segment that's growing in Columbus. Last September, Columbus lost a direct flight to the Oakland area. That meant Nardone had to find a flight to fill its place in a short period of time. He came through. Mere weeks after the Oakland flight was canceled, the airport secured the San Francisco daily flight, which officially launched Friday morning. "There's a lot of business interaction between the (San Francisco) Bay Area and Columbus," Nardone said. "We have a lot of VC growth here and a lot of business synergy between the two cities." MORE: https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2019/06/07/airport-authority-ceo-direct-flights-to-san.html
June 10, 20196 yr From the article: Quote As for what's next on Nardone's wish list, he said he is working hard with other business leaders in the city to make sure Columbus lands some direct flights to European destinations soon, as well as other large metropolitan cities like Austin and San Diego. Given that the author didn't use a direct quote from Nardone with regard to a European direct flight we should probably take this with a grain of salt, but it sounds promising regardless. Nardone has been working his butt off since he got here, and I'm growing more and more confident that we could have a direct flight to Europe soon. Also, I noticed Southwest just added the daily (well, almost daily) direct flight to Oakland once again. It will be interesting to see how that effects this new United route.
June 10, 20196 yr 1 hour ago, cbussoccer said: From the article: Given that the author didn't use a direct quote from Nardone with regard to a European direct flight we should probably take this with a grain of salt, but it sounds promising regardless. Nardone has been working his butt off since he got here, and I'm growing more and more confident that we could have a direct flight to Europe soon. Also, I noticed Southwest just added the daily (well, almost daily) direct flight to Oakland once again. It will be interesting to see how that effects this new United route. Yeah I'm not sure why all these media outlets have multiple times said the Oakland flight was cancelled. The same thing happened literally last year. They suspended it during the winter and brought it back in the spring.
July 1, 20195 yr The May stats have been published. CMH continues to see strong ridership growth with a 7.2% YTD growth over PY. The current rate of growth to date is slightly ahead of the rate at this time last year. If we continue seeing this type of growth, our total ridership should be close to 9 million by the end of the year if you include the Allegiant numbers from LCK. Now if only we could get that European route... On the new rental car facility front, I checked in on the construction video feed this morning and noticed the base of one of the cranes is in place while the other two bases are on site but not yet in place. I'm not sure when the cranes will be up, but it can't be too far away. Hopefully sometime this week.
July 25, 20195 yr June stats have been published. Ridership growth has slowed slightly, but it continues to be strong. June 2018: 750,992 June 2019: 783,831 Increase of 4.4% Jan-June 2018: 3,944,167 Jan-June 2019: 4,206,269 Increase of 6.6% Passenger numbers at LCK are starting to rebound after being down quite a bit earlier in the year. June 2018: 39,542 June 2019: 45,570 Increase of 15.2% Jan-June 2018: 165,402 Jan-June 2019: 154,808 Decrease of 6.4% If you combine CMH and LCK passenger totals, Columbus is continuing to gain ground on CVG and could potentially pass it within the next year or two if current trends hold steady. CVG June 2019: 889,365 (+3.72% LY) CMH + LCK June 2019: 829,401 (+4.92 % LY) CVG is 7.2% larger for the month. Last year CVG was 7.8% larger. CVG Jan-June 2019: 4,424,171 (+2.96% LY) CMH + LCK Jan-June 2019: 4,361,077 (+6.12% LY) CVG is 1.45% larger for the year. Last year CVG was 4.36% larger.
July 25, 20195 yr ^ To add to my post above, Southwest (the largest CMH airline by PAX) is actually experiencing a slight decrease in ridership so far this year. YTD they've seen a 1.3% decrease, or a decrease of 19,284 passengers. They've also seen a 1.5% decrease in landings. I wonder how much of this is a result of of the 737Max issues. I haven't noticed any Southwest routes being cut or reduced since last year, so I wonder if most of this decrease is due to cancellations brought on by the Max issues. Another factor for Southwest's small decrease could be Spirit's increased presence. Although Frontier has greatly reduced their presence (down 38% YTD), Spirit (up 58% YTD) has nearly doubled the level Frontier was at through June of last year.
August 12, 20195 yr The first of three cranes is currently being built at the new rental car facility site. https://flycolumbus.com/about-us/development/new-rental-car-facility
August 22, 20195 yr New rental car facility progress picture from the airport's Twitter account. One of three eventual cranes has been put up.
August 25, 20195 yr Eff Jan 6, Southwest is cutting CMH-OAK. https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/airline-news/2019/08/19/southwest-airlines-cutting-nearly-20-nonstop-routes-los-angeles-boston-orlando-dallas/2049341001/
August 25, 20195 yr 3 hours ago, Pugu said: Eff Jan 6, Southwest is cutting CMH-OAK. https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/airline-news/2019/08/19/southwest-airlines-cutting-nearly-20-nonstop-routes-los-angeles-boston-orlando-dallas/2049341001/ That route seems to come and go. It’s pretty much a seasonal route with them calling it a seasonal route, although I would be interested to see the impact of the direct flight to San Fran that was added earlier in the year.
September 5, 20195 yr July stats are out. Passenger growth continues at a fairly steady rate of 6.4% YTD, meaning our rate of growth is about the same we experienced January through July of last year. CMH has logged 4,989,320 passengers through July compared to the 4,690,005 passengers through July of last year. LCK has logged 202,968 passengers compared to 205,189 last year. Combined, the two airports have logged 5,192,288 through July this year. It’s looking like we have a pretty good chance of breaking 9M passengers for the year. I wonder how much more growth the current airport can handle. Both CVG and CLE can obviously handle a lot of growth from where they currently are today given that they both used to be 15-20M passenger hubs, but CMH is moving into uncharted territory. The next few years should be interesting. https://flycolumbus.com/flights/airline-stats
September 6, 20195 yr 19 hours ago, cbussoccer said: July stats are out. Passenger growth continues at a fairly steady rate of 6.4% YTD, meaning our rate of growth is about the same we experienced January through July of last year. CMH has logged 4,989,320 passengers through July compared to the 4,690,005 passengers through July of last year. LCK has logged 202,968 passengers compared to 205,189 last year. Combined, the two airports have logged 5,192,288 through July this year. It’s looking like we have a pretty good chance of breaking 9M passengers for the year. I wonder how much more growth the current airport can handle. Both CVG and CLE can obviously handle a lot of growth from where they currently are today given that they both used to be 15-20M passenger hubs, but CMH is moving into uncharted territory. The next few years should be interesting. https://flycolumbus.com/flights/airline-stats CVG gates are starting to get crowded though. Since Concourse C was torn down you have Delta in 3/4 of B and American the other 1/4 of B. The rest of the carriers share concourse A. Will be interesting to see how our airport will either have Delta give up more gates or finally expand Concourse A to the west.
September 6, 20195 yr 1 hour ago, savadams13 said: CVG gates are starting to get crowded though. Since Concourse C was torn down you have Delta in 3/4 of B and American the other 1/4 of B. The rest of the carriers share concourse A. Will be interesting to see how our airport will either have Delta give up more gates or finally expand Concourse A to the west. CVG still has more space even with the removal of Concourse C.
September 6, 20195 yr 20 hours ago, cbussoccer said: July stats are out. Passenger growth continues at a fairly steady rate of 6.4% YTD, meaning our rate of growth is about the same we experienced January through July of last year. CMH has logged 4,989,320 passengers through July compared to the 4,690,005 passengers through July of last year. LCK has logged 202,968 passengers compared to 205,189 last year. Combined, the two airports have logged 5,192,288 through July this year. It’s looking like we have a pretty good chance of breaking 9M passengers for the year. I wonder how much more growth the current airport can handle. Both CVG and CLE can obviously handle a lot of growth from where they currently are today given that they both used to be 15-20M passenger hubs, but CMH is moving into uncharted territory. The next few years should be interesting. https://flycolumbus.com/flights/airline-stats When CRAA floated the terminal and midfield development back in 2017(?) they talked on how 9M passengers was going to be their breaking point which they were anticipating to hit in the mid to late 2020's. It seems that growth has outpaced their projections (which matches what is happening on the metro all together) so I am curious to see if this will speed up any of the terminal and midfield plans. Columbus' growth seems to be accelerating for the first time beyond what we are planning/have planned. I really hope to see the city and related entities start taking growth seriously before we fall into the issues that Nashville and Austin are seeing, we have all these examples of cities failing to build and the consequences that come with that.
September 12, 20195 yr The second crane is currently going up. One more to go. https://flycolumbus.com/about-us/development/new-rental-car-facility
September 17, 20195 yr 13 minutes ago, Pablo said: That's a cute, short crane! Just a little baby crane lol. The third crane will be halfway between those two in height.
September 17, 20195 yr So I am late to the game, but travelers are still going to board a bus of some type and ride it from main terminal building to the car rental facility? I know land is tight at CMH and with the location of existing hotels it makes it harder to connect the two. Kinda sucks design wise, I guess it is what it is though. Glad the one at CVG will be direct connected to main terminal, do away with the need of Rental car buses altogether.
September 17, 20195 yr 5 minutes ago, savadams13 said: So I am late to the game, but travelers are still going to board a bus of some type and ride it from main terminal building to the car rental facility? I know land is tight at CMH and with the location of existing hotels it makes it harder to connect the two. Kinda sucks design wise, I guess it is what it is though. Glad the one at CVG will be direct connected to main terminal, do away with the need of Rental car buses altogether. The new terminal in design right now will almost assuredly be connected to this rental car facility directly.
September 17, 20195 yr 8 minutes ago, aderwent said: The new terminal in design right now will almost assuredly be connected to this rental car facility directly. Yep. The reason they are building the garage in this location is because the new terminal is planned to be across the street, with pedestrian walkways connecting directly to the terminal. Here's the overall plan for the area.
September 18, 20195 yr 18 hours ago, cbussoccer said: Yep. The reason they are building the garage in this location is because the new terminal is planned to be across the street, with pedestrian walkways connecting directly to the terminal. Here's the overall plan for the area. Does this even fit? I am not an expert, but looking at this layout i would assume they would also need to take out existing taxiways of the 10R/28L runway, to accommodate this terminal design.
September 18, 20195 yr 9 minutes ago, savadams13 said: Does this even fit? I am not an expert, but looking at this layout i would assume they would also need to take out existing taxiways of the 10R/28L runway, to accommodate this terminal design. Just eyeballing it, it looks like it will be a tight squeeze, but there appears to be room. I'm sure they've considered the space limitations and are confident they have enough room.
September 19, 20195 yr On 9/18/2019 at 10:57 AM, savadams13 said: Does this even fit? I am not an expert, but looking at this layout i would assume they would also need to take out existing taxiways of the 10R/28L runway, to accommodate this terminal design. Below is the conceptual plan for the entire build-out of the new terminal, garage, rental car facility, and relocated Lane Aviation. It looks like a complete reworking of the taxiways to 10R/28L is part of the plan.
September 19, 20195 yr So the new terminal is a whole separate building? What becomes of the current main facility?
September 19, 20195 yr 1 minute ago, GCrites80s said: So the new terminal is a whole separate building? What becomes of the current main facility? Judging by the picture, it will be demolished and new hangars will be built there to replace the ones that will be removed to build the new facility.
September 19, 20195 yr Wow, they just did all that work to the old terminal a few years ago. But of course in Columbus everything must be remodeled every 5 years so I guess it's par.
September 19, 20195 yr 8 minutes ago, GCrites80s said: Wow, they just did all that work to the old terminal a few years ago. But of course in Columbus everything must be remodeled every 5 years so I guess it's par. It was mostly just cosmetic if I recall. They were just giving it a face lift. And the new terminal is still at least a decade away, so the cosmetic updates they did on the current terminal will still have a 15-20 year life before we shift to the new terminal.
September 19, 20195 yr 26 minutes ago, cbussoccer said: It was mostly just cosmetic if I recall. They were just giving it a face lift. And the new terminal is still at least a decade away, so the cosmetic updates they did on the current terminal will still have a 15-20 year life before we shift to the new terminal. Correct. The $80 million terminal face-lift was to get the 1950s-era headhouse and piecemeal additions up to current standards (HVAC and cosmetic upgrades) in order for the facility to handle a max passenger count of 10 million. If the airport breaks that threshold earlier that anticipated, indications are that the new terminal work could be moved up as a result.
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