Will Airport Reconfiguration Justify the $1.1 Billion Cost?
Summary: The Allegheny County Airport Authority has announced plans to reconfigure the terminal system at Pittsburgh International Airport. The estimated cost is $1.1 billion. But
Summary: The Allegheny County Airport Authority has announced plans to reconfigure the terminal system at Pittsburgh International Airport. The estimated cost is $1.1 billion. But
Summary: The announcement of two new international airlines beginning service at Pittsburgh International Airport in 2017 has been applauded by local officials and the media.
When the Allegheny County Airport Authority Board hired their new Airport Authority CEO in January 2015, there were high expectations regarding Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT)
Recently Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT) shared news with the media regarding passenger counts and flights. The headline was that for the fifth consecutive month in
Pittsburgh International Airport’s (PIT) struggles to grow passenger counts and flights have been well chronicled in past Policy Briefs. One obvious culprit has been the
The Allegheny County Airport Authority has released its budget for 2010. And while it contains a very slight increase in expenditures over this year’s budget
In early 2011 the Allegheny Institute wrote two Policy Briefs (Volume 11, Numbers 8 and 16) outlining some of the problems facing Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT). The first Brief detailed the decline in passengers at PIT and how nearly twenty years after the new terminal opened it was grossly underutilized-due in large part to the loss of the US Airways’ hub. In the second Brief, it was noted that, owing to the hefty debt incurred to build the facility, PIT was forced to keep airline fees high compared to other airports. The question was posed whether these high costs might be hindering growth. It has been more than a year and a half since we raised these issues. Have there been any improvements?
The recent news that the Allegheny County Airport Authority is supporting privatization came as a bit of a surprise given the longstanding strenuous anti-privatization stance
Last fall the Allegheny County Airport Authority joined a consortium that included Airmall USA, and GE Capital Aviation to submit a bid to privatize Puerto
When Allegheny County signed off on a deal to allow natural gas drilling at Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT) earlier in 2013 we noted that the