The last time our airport dining saw an update was circa 2012 with the Taste Elevated campaign adding local names like Salt Lake Pizza & Pasta, High West, Greek Souvlaki and Vivace (remember them?!) It will even have a large side area for greeting arriving passengers - expected to be used mostly for large parties welcoming returning missionaries.I can’t be the only one just a little excited by today’s formal announcement of the winners (and by proxy the losers) for the concessions slots at the eagerly anticipated airport rebuild. It will have more seats in waiting area, with more power plugs for passengers’ electronics, and more restaurants, stores and restrooms. “The economy of the region is incredibly strong, and as a result of that more and more people are showing up at our front door” - and next week can drive by and look at the airport’s new front door.Īmong new facilities are a larger parking garage, a gateway building between it and a new terminal and two new parallel concourses that avoid bottlenecking operations It will have larger screening facilities that use faster processes, and the largest Sky Club used by Delta Air Lines anywhere. “Airports typically are great barometers of the local economy,” Wyatt said. Wyatt said most of the growth is coming from local passengers, not those merely making flight connections here. When the first phase of the rebuilding project opens next year, “We’ll probably have passenger volume that we didn’t expect to have until about 2022,” Wyatt said. The “airport is incredibly busy with the 15 largest passenger volume days in the history of the airport all occurring in the last year, many of those in the last two or three months,” Airport Director Bill Wyatt told the Airport Advisory Board this week.

The current airport was designed to handle only 10 million passengers annually, but the airport last year served nearly 25 million - so the city is building a new, modern facility to replace it essentially on top of the existing airport without closing it. 15, 2020, when the first phase of the rebuilt airport is scheduled to open for business. 16 will give motorists close-up views of the new terminal and parking garage.Īirport officials say the new path will be in place until Sept. (Courtesy of Salt Lake City International Airport) A new route for the airport road opening on Aug.

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