It’s out with the old and in with the 21st century at Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT). That’s the strategy behind the major terminal redevelopment program underway at Pittsburgh’s once-bustling airport. The existing airport terminal, originally considered pretty revolutionary when it opened in 1992, is just a shadow of what it once was, at least, in terms of destinations served.
Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT)’s current structure was designed primarily for hub operations. At the time, USAir (later rebranded as US Airways) had built Pittsburgh into one of its major bases. From PIT, US Airways could fly passengers to cities as far as Frankfurt and as close as Latrobe, Pennsylvania. But US Airways dehubbed the airport in 2004, and that hub status is “never coming back, ever,” Christina Cassotis, CEO of airport operator Allegheny County Airport Authority, told TPG in an interview. (Nowadays, PIT is served by 15 airlines with 62 nonstop destinations on more than 170 peak-day departures.)
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Originally published: August 17, 2024
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