This is not USAir’s airport. Tucked behind white partitioning out of view to most of the traveling public, a new terminal is taking wing at Pittsburgh International Airport. With an arrival set for 2025, the $1.5 billion modernization is now about 60% complete, with nearly all of the new landside building, and its soaring cathedral-like feel, fully enclosed.

During a tour Thursday, amid the screeching of power tools, visitors got a rudimentary idea of what it will be like to walk inside the terminal’s ticketing level, past the security checkpoint, across a bridge and through a tunnel to the existing airside building for boarding.

Read more at Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Originally published: February 29, 2024