Pittsburgh International is taking home yet another award \u2014 this time for being the best airport on the planet.<\/p>\n
Air Transport World, a global aviation industry publication founded in 1964, named Pittsburgh International its Airport of the Year for the second time earlier this week.<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh becomes the first airport to win the category twice since Air Transport World introduced it in 2014. The airport also won in 2017.<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh International has debuted a whole new landside terminal since then, and Air Transport World felt the $1.7 billion complex boosted the airport in its award criteria when it opened last November. Factors include an airport\u2019s relationship strength with airlines, passenger experience, security, stability and innovation, among others.<\/p>\n
The new terminal features an expanded and modernized TSA checkpoint, an open floorplan and a more condensed layout, eliminating the train between terminals that added time to passengers\u2019 trips.<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh International also secured a new airline, Aer Lingus, with flights to Dublin that began in May. The airport\u2019s seats departing to Europe have grown more than 300% in the past decade.<\/p>\n
\u201cPittsburgh\u2019s innovative and dynamic leadership team has transformed the airport so that it stands apart in so many ways \u2014 in customer experience, use of cutting-edge technology and sustainability,\u201d Air Transport world editor-in-chief Karen Walker said.<\/p>\n
Allegheny County Airport Authority CEO Christina Cassotis said in a news release that the award represens an \u201cextraordinary recognition\u201d of the work happening at Pittsburgh International.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are focused on creating the infrastructure, operating environment and passenger experience that allow airlines to grow their networks and connect Pittsburgh to more destinations around the world,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Air Transport World will present Pittsburgh International with the award at a gala dinner in Milan in December.<\/p>\n
Past Airport of the Year honorees include Dallas Fort Worth International Airport, Istanbul Airport in Turkey and London Heathrow Airport in England.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh International is taking home yet another award \u2014 this time for being the best airport on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-292903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292903","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=292903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}