Pittsburgh International Airport\u2019s new terminal is drawing interest from more than passengers and media.<\/p>\n
As an industry-leading travel gateway, PIT has hosted leaders from several other airports, most recently from Tampa International Airport (TPA).<\/p>\n
\u201cPittsburgh and Tampa are kind of alike,\u201d said Jeff Siddle, Vice President, Planning & Development, TPA. \u201cWe\u2019re similar in how we operate, manage and lead so it was good for us to come here because we think alike.\u201d<\/p>\n
The TPA team recently visited to discuss best practices, gather information and lessons learned from PIT\u2019s new terminal construction. Tampa has embarked on its own major projects, including an expansion of its Main Terminal Ticketing Level and Airside D project that will add 16 gates.<\/p>\n
Tampa\u2019s Ticketing Level project will modernize the second floor, adding 28 new counter locations, relocating airline office space, and renovating the 135,000-square-foot floor to improve circulation while incorporating the latest technology. Construction is scheduled to be completed in 2029.<\/p>\n
The Tampa team toured the new terminal and met with several PIT executives along the way, including CEO Christina Cassotis.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were really pleased to host them and really flattered because we do know that people are interested in this terminal but it\u2019s clear we\u2019re making an impact throughout the industry,\u201d Cassotis said.<\/p>\n
Tampa officials said the new airport better represents the Pittsburgh region of today.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe (new Pittsburgh) airport is such a better reflection of what Pittsburgh is as a city now, primarily who the people are,\u201d said Matt DeLoatche, Senior Manager, Design & Planning at TPA. \u201cIt\u2019s extremely obvious the user was deeply contemplated throughout the design. \u2026 and that the airport wanted to create a facility that the residents would be proud of, and I think they did a phenomenal job of accomplishing that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh International Airport\u2019s new terminal is drawing interest from more than passengers and media. As an industry-leading travel…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[72190,135,137,3210,136,72191],"class_list":["post-149328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-feature-video","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-international-airport","tag-tampa-news","tag-transformed-pit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}