{"id":301191,"date":"2026-06-09T11:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T11:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/301191\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T11:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T11:52:07","slug":"miami-international-airport-detours-cruise-passengers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/301191\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami International Airport detours cruise passengers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/MIA_MIA_105HolydayMIA00NEWPPP.JPG\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"Passengers exit the terminal to take the train to the car rental hub at Miami International Airport on Friday, Nov. 21, 2025.\" alt=\"Passengers walked out of the terminal to take the train to the rental building, at Miami International Airport ahead of the Holidays in Miami, on Friday, November 21, 2025.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Passengers exit the terminal to take the train to the car rental hub at Miami International Airport on Friday, Nov. 21, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>                Pedro Portal<\/p>\n<p>            pportal@miamiherald.com<\/p>\n<p>Miami International Airport has permanently shut down one of its access roads to make room for the expansion of a passenger terminal.<\/p>\n<p>Drivers used Northwest  20th Street between Mclaughlin Drive and MIA to access the airport via 42nd Court. Now, the stretch has been <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/iflymia\/status\/2061424514475458589\">permanently closed<\/a> to traffic  for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/living\/travel\/article297162974.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">expansion of the  South Terminal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The now-closed street  was mostly used by cruise line buses to carry cruise passengers to and from PortMiami, said  MIA Communications Division Director Greg Chin.<\/p>\n<p>Drivers now  have to detour at Mclaughlin Drive to reach the airport.<\/p>\n<p>                                          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_1431.jpeg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" title=\"IMG_1431.jpeg\" alt=\"An airport sign indicating the future home of Concourse K.\"\/>                                                                                    An airport sign indicating the future home of Concourse K.                                                                                                                                                                        Miami Herald                                                                                        <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/living\/travel\/article295377894.html\">MORE: How $9 billion will change Miami\u2019s airport, and what travelers are getting for the money<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The construction of Concourse K, part of the terminal expansion, began a year ago. This is <a href=\"https:\/\/news.miami-airport.com\/mayor-daniella-levine-cava-county-officials-and-partners-celebrate-groundbreaking-of-historic-concourse-k-expansion-at-mia\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MIA\u2019s first terminal expansion<\/a> since 2012, and is part of the airport\u2019s Modernization in Action Plan looking to make space for 77 million passengers and 5 million tons of cargo by 2040.<\/p>\n<p>The three-level concourse  will add six new passenger gates.  More post-security dining,  stores and  a  passenger lounge  will fill the space.<\/p>\n<p>Concourse K is expected to be completed in 2029.<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary gray\">This story was originally published June 9, 2026 at 7:08 AM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Passengers exit the terminal to take the train to the car rental hub at Miami International Airport on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-301191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301191","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=301191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}