Author:  Chris Jones Published in:  March-April 2024 Nearly 250 years after Paul Revere rode out of Boston warning of a pending advance by British Redcoats, a shimmering red coat of paint warmly welcomes international visitors to the modern airport in his colonial hometown. A new boomerang-shaped red façade has become the predominant architectural feature at Boston Logan International Airport (BOS), standing so tall and bright that it’s visible from city parks, waterways and downtown high rises. Travelers and locals who look beyond its sweeping, undulated exterior will quickly ..read more

Author:  Kristen Rindfleisch Published in:  March-April 2024 Kansas City International Airport (MCI) recently underwent a transformative expansion, not only reshaping its terminal but also nearly tripling the size of its apron. In true domino fashion, those improvements created the need for a whole new approach to snow removal. Previously, the apron spanned about 2.5 million square feet. Now, it serves as the designated aircraft deicing area, and snow removal crews have an additional 3.5 million square feet of new apron to clear as well. Kansas City Aviation Department, which o ..read more

Author:  Jennifer Daack Woolson Published in:  March-April 2024 Just before Thanksgiving and the traditional start of the 2023/2024 winter holiday travel season, a new glycol recycling facility opened at Syracuse Hancock International Airport (SYR) featuring first-of-its-kind deicing technology for the United States. In addition to recovering and recycling glycol from aircraft deicing operations, the new $19.4 million system significantly enhances the process by producing glycol for reuse at the upstate New York airfield. SYR Chief Operations Officer Aaron Harris explains that ..read more

Author:  Paul Nolan Published in:  March-April 2024 Staff members at Vancouver International Airport (YVR) in British Columbia refer to the experience almost cryptically as “the Four Days in December.” And it’s as ominous as it sounds. A mix of snow, freezing rain, low temperatures and fog arrived in waves over four crucial holiday travel days in December 2022, resulting in the cancellation of 1,300 flights and disrupting travel for more than 180,000 passengers. “We’ve had more snow at the airport in our history, but we haven’t had it on the busiest four days of the calendar ye ..read more

Author:  Nicole Nelson Published in:  March-April 2024 Designers and planners who created the luxe Chase Sapphire Lounge at LaGuardia Airport (LGA) in New York “went for gold” regarding aesthetics, amenities and overall building standards. And they seem to have succeeded on all accounts. The new facility, which opened early this year, is impressing customers and travel industry insiders alike.  Located in LGA’s recently redeveloped Terminal B, the 21,850-square-foot lounge is the largest to date for both the terminal and the credit card company. The lavish two-story retrea ..read more

Author:  Victoria Soukup Published in:  March-April 2024 The rapid growth at Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport (SRQ)—a whopping 230% increase in passenger volume in the last five years—has brought smiles to the faces of management. But it also created an associated increase in vehicle traffic that caused curbside congestion at the terminal. Thus, the birth of SRQ’s new $3.2 million cellphone lot. The idea was to encourage drivers picking up arriving passengers to park and wait rather than clogging the main terminal roads. So the Florida airport installed digital flight i ..read more

Author:  Kristen Rindfleisch Published in:  March-April 2024 Miami International Airport (MIA) is undergoing a comprehensive renovation of more than 200 restrooms. The effort, slated for completion by 2030, is just one component of a larger future-ready capital initiative created under Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava to modernize MIA. Every restroom renovation will involve internal demolition and reconstruction with new flooring, walls, ceilings and fixtures. The design is incorporating sustainable materials for partitions and flooring, enhanced accessibility featu ..read more

Author:  Kristin V. Shaw Published in:  March-April 2024 Montgomery Regional Airport (MGM) in Alabama claimed a spot in aviation history this February as one of the first U.S. airports to open a station with state-of-the-art chargers for electric aircraft.  When crews broke ground for the project last October, Executive Director Wade Davis called the event a “significant leap forward for the future of aviation, our airport and the aviation industry as a whole.” That’s not hyperbole. While battery-powered aircraft is still an emerging technology, it’s front and center in th ..read more

Author:  Ken Wysocky Published in:  March-April 2024 Growth can be elusive for any airport, especially small ones that suffer “leakage”—the loss of customers to larger nearby airports. Appleton International Airport (ATW) in east-central Wisconsin and Columbia Metropolitan Airport (CAE) in South Carolina have a new tool to help plug their revenue-killing leaks: FlyMyAirport from Airport One LLC. The digital platform, which is embedded on each airport’s website, makes it easy for travelers to see at a glance what flights originate at their local airport. It also allows them to b ..read more

Author:  Mike Schwanz Published in:  March-April 2024 A new Caesars casino and hotel scheduled to open later this year near Danville Regional (DAN) has created a good news/bad news situation for the southern Virginia airport. The good news is that it will undoubtedly attract more traffic to the general aviation facility, boosting both DAN’s bottom line and the overall regional economy. The bad news is that $8 million of renovations were needed to accommodate the expected traffic surge. The main terminal was built in 1961 and required significant improvements, explains Airport D ..read more