Airport Experience® News - Retail Innovation Issue 2024

LATEST BUZZ PIT TRANSFORMATION Two Decades After Being Dehubbed, Pittsburgh International Airport Is Being Right-Sized For The Future

BY SARAH BELING

t’s been two decades since US Airways declared bankruptcy (twice) and dehubbed its base at

PIT welcomes approximately 10 million travelers annually, a figure that has been growing recently but is about half the airport’s peak in the late 1990s. “The project is really all about right-sizing and modernizing our airport,” explains Paul Hoback, chief development officer. “[PIT was] built for 80% connecting passengers, and 20% for origin and destination passengers,” he says. “Once they dehubbed our airport, we became the complete opposite. We’re 95% origin

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Above: The PIT Transformed project will cost about $1.57 billion and is expected to be completed next year.

Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT), but the airport is finally evolving to meet the needs of its community. The transition from a hub to an origin-and-destination airport is always tricky, but with the wide spanning PIT Transformed renovation project, Allegheny County Airport Authority officials are reinventing the facility for current and future travelers.

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