Southwest is adding two new routes.http://www.usatoday.com/story/travel...utes/91984922/

Delta Switches Salt Lake- Reagan to Salt Lake- Dulles. LA gets the perimeter restricted slot that Salt Lake used to have.
http://news.delta.com/new-delta-rout...hington-reagan

Delta only switched one of their two daily SLC to Reagan flights to Dulles airport. The other SLC to Reagan slot went to LAX. Your description is very misleading.

Never have been a fan of Southwest. Along with Frontier, Spirit, and Allegiant, Southwest and those airlines are the Wal-Marts of the airline industry. They offer a very cheap product, and also just look at the type of passenger they carry. It's the same you see all around Wal-Mart. Their boarding areas for their flights look like the check out lines at your local Wal-Mart. You get what you pay for with those airlines.

Hell yes, I couldn't agree more. :cheers:

My job recently had me flying from Reno to Vegas on Southwest. I told them I'd rather drive.

it's interesting what SWA has done at SLC. Used to have a ton of nonstops, then it slowly dropped to like 7 or so, but now it's up to 12 again.

Lol not that misleading but thanks for the clarification. 😉

Updated renderings are on the airport's website.

https://www.slcairport.com/thenewslc...gs-and-images/

Ya, these are not new. We've seen these before. Very unsure about that wavy stuff.

This one is new:

https://www.slcairport.com/assets/Th...view-10-16.JPG

I am worried that the main terminal building(not the concourses) doesn't look big enough. I know there will be three floors but I just wonder if this is going to be big enough.

I am wondering if they are anticipating a lot of the baggage check-ins to take place in the parking garage requiring less space for that in the main terminal. If 1 floor is baggage claim and the other is mostly security, it might be alright.

Yup, I've suggested the same thing. It looks tiny for such a major airport.

Pretty sure it will be similar to DCA (my airport) in that the top floor will be arrivals and ticketing, then you will go to the middle floor for security and to get to gates, then the bottom floor is for baggage claim and leaving the airport.

The main building is about the length of a downtown SLC block, so it should be large enough. The huge concourses just make that building look small.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the overwhelming purpose of our airport to connect people passing through? Isn't that why the square footage of the concourses is so much greater than the unified terminal?

That's the concourse, not the terminal. The terminal is just the little block in front of the main concourse

I'm gonna guess you were tired when you wrote this, because if a concourse is only the length of an SLC block you aren't going to have many planes at it.

Indeed the terminal is the length of an SLC block as seen by this image on their site

https://www.slcairport.com/assets/Th...wn-Overlay.jpg

Based on the bird's eye view, the footprint of the terminal is approximately 400,000 sq ft. To compare, Denver's looks to be about 470,000, LAX main terminal is 380,000, Atlanta 600,000, and Minneapolis 365,000.

The main terminal building is three levels. First being the drop off/check in and TSA security, second the arrival pickups/baggage claim, and the lowest level will be level three which will be for international arrivals.

The main terminal building is built to be expanded if needed. It looks plenty big enough considering everything will be on three separate levels.

It'll be interesting to see if the airport will attract more international airlines. I could potentially see Condor and Volaris begin service to SLC. International travel is definitely the direction the US airline industry is heading towards. There will be more international gates with direct access to customs and immigration. The gates will be able to handle any type of different aircraft at any time. The customs and immigration will be a lot bigger as well compared to what's around right now. KLM and Air Canada began service to SLC this year, and KLM is already expanding with more flights and seats with a larger plane to SLC next year. Delta's flights to Paris and Amsterdam, and along with KLM's service to Amsterdam have been grand slams. Their flight to London has been more on the poor side of performance. I wouldn't be surprised to see them switch the London service to seasonal only. The London flight will definitely need time to mature. Hopefully Delta will have the patience with it for it to have success. If not I bet British Airways would give it a try if Delta pulls the plug on it.

Haha.. Yeah, I wasn't thinking at all. I'm an idiot.

According to Ben Winslow at FOX13, construction costs have driven up the costs of the new terminal by $350M, putting the total cost now at $2.9B.

I just got an email update for airport construction.
This is what I got:
http://campaign.r20.constantcontact....c-b104d20817c3

Cool! Thank you for the update.

http://i.imgur.com/8FkcZCP.png

I'm a little confused how the ingress/egress works for this new Park and Wait lot. Do people just hang a left out of that new driveway? Because that doesn't look super safe with 50 MPH traffic.

I don't think it would be any different than making a right turn, since this is all one-way, but it does still look a little unsafe. Maybe the final configuration will be a little different?

You know what would be cool?
This:
• Video Link

Did I miss my chance to post an old video?
• Video Link

The main footprint s.f. of Denver's is right at 500,000.

SLC Intl. will have finished 2016 with over 23 million passengers. That is approximately 1 million more than 2015. I don't know what the all time passenger record for SLC is but this would have to be close. Good times ahead for SLC. Hopefully the momentum will continue into 2017.

General flight update:

Frontier is ending service to Chicago
American is ending service to Miami (Most likely a result of delta just recently starting service to Miami)

Southwest is starting daily flights to SanDiego
Delta will be starting daily winter seasonal flights to Kahului, flown on a 767 in December.

Demand is already catching up to Salt Lake International rebuild. May have to proceed directly to phase 2.

http://www.sltrib.com/news/5061520-1...medium=twitter

The guy is right. It's a "good problem to have."

But it's still a problem. Even with the extra 15 gates, what's to say we won't need a third or fourth concourse within a decade (again, an awesome "problem" to have).

I worry the new terminal will be overwhelmed and won't be able to handle that sort of volume. Maybe build a second terminal on the north side that connects to I-215?

I just feel like I needed to bring this plaid shirts post from 2013 up. What a long way we've come, from expecting half of the south concourse with A, B, and C still in place done by 2024 to having all of the south concourse and possibly part of the north concourse done by 2020 (or 2024?). 50-60 years my ass, plaid shirts.

I remember talk about the airport needing this construction before the Olympics, but funding was never secured for the expansion and I don't think the construction time frame worked.

Any-who, I think if Utah in general wants to accommodate more tourism and visits to the state in the quickest possible way. Expand Provo airport and probably Ogden for regional flights, kind of how Midway and O'Hare do it in Chicago. Utah County has an estimated 500,000 people in it and by 2050 will have a million. Which is basically saying they will need the current Salt Lake Airport down in Provo in the next 30 years.

I saw a commit on one of the news articles and someone suggested build a Hyper-Loop from Provo to Salt Lake Airports and make Provo the Regional jets airport. Need a connection? Hope on the Hyper-loop and in 5 minutes your at Salt Lake heading to Paris.

Just a thought, Like my expanding Ski Resorts in Utah and Morgan Counties.:shrug:

:sly:Ha, and who do we think the most recent incarnation of Plaid Shirts is??? :yes:

SanDiego-Honolulu, a Draper basement dweller. AND Jimmy Chips. JC created his account on Feb 17 (the day we were having that discussion with SDH) and hasn't posted anything since Feb 18.

I'm right here haha :haha:

They just announced the new airport north terminal design :haha:

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Obviously joking, but I could see one of the crazy middle eastern states trying this. I'm sure Steve jobs would approve.

The Ogden Metro already has over 600k and should be at a million as well before too long.

Aren't an overwhelming number of the flights in and out of SLC International Regional? Wouldn't removing a bunch of regional flights from the airport destroy its usefulness as a hub? It also seems to me that much of the population growth in Utah County is as near to Salt Lake City as it is to Provo.

Maybe if the population South of Provo really explodes or Salt Lake International somehow hits capacity constraints that it can't overcome with reasonable upgrades then Provo would need to be expanded.It seems better to me to invest in one impressive airport with lots of flights than 2 less impressive airports with fewer flights. I could be wrong but I think SLC International has plenty of room to grow before it needs relief from another airport.

I am SanDiego-Honolulu :)

Do the moderators here not have access to IP addresses? Elsewhere on the internet it seems you need a proxy to troll this hard.

He's using a VPN to mask his IP address.

Yeah, and I am Jimmy Chips :)

How is Construction of the new Salt Lake Intl Airport Going?

http://www.good4utah.com/news/local-...oing/672582535

lol. The new park-and-wait lot is going to have a Chevron, Costa Vida and a Burger King.

http://www.sltrib.com/news/5239237-1...coming-to-salt

This is awesome. It's about time. :tup:

A construction update has been posted.

https://www.slcairport.com/assets/Up...1-Picture1.jpg

Its incredible to see how many piles have been driven out there. It will be exciting to see work start above ground.

Pretty quickly the actual terminal and south concourse west structures should start to pop up from the ground. Construction updates will become a lot more interesting in the next couple of months, i assume.