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NFL officials announced that Pittsburgh set a new draft attendance record with an approximate 805,000 fans descending on the Steel City over three days \u2013 and many of them first stepped off a plane at the airport. <\/p>\n
From Austria to Australia, fans streamed through the new terminal at Pittsburgh International Airport, taking photos, interacting with exhibits, sampling beverages and getting their luggage faster than ever before. <\/p>\n
And more many of the thousands of arrivals, it was their first experience through the new PIT, including Steelers first round pick Max Iheanachor. <\/p>\n
As the draft approached, elected officials and community leaders officially kicked off NFL Draft week at the airport, unveiling a mock draft stage complete with a podium for arriving visitors to pose with for photos. <\/p>\n
\u201cThis region and its airport have been preparing for a moment like this for over a decade, aligning infrastructure and experience to support large-scale global events,\u201d Pittsburgh International Airport CEO Christina Cassotis said. \u201cWe are sending a message saying that we are open for business and that we are ready to lead on a global stage.\u201d <\/p>\n
Watch the video for visitors\u2019 full reactions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff NFL officials announced that Pittsburgh set a new draft attendance record with an approximate 805,000 fans descending…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1197,79580,3537,73,75,74,19567],"class_list":["post-178063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-feature","tag-feature-video","tag-nfl-draft","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-video-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}