Oklahoma city airport expansion4/3/2024 ![]() ![]() “The beauty of this project is it was a true extension of what the airport had,” said Mark Timbrook, FSB aviation market principal. For instance, what had been the two screening areas are now large meeter/greeter lobbies. The project also repurposed some existing spaces. “The expansion really expanded the queuing space, the capacity to the checkpoint so that definitely helped the situation that the airport had had for a long time,” Mulder said. Of that total, the expansion was 133,000 square feet. ![]() The 151,000 square feet represents the total project. “So the airport really had been struggling with security lines and not enough space,” he said. The building was updated in the early 2000s, but he said the updates didn’t accommodate post-9/11 security screening procedures for both passengers and baggage. “Our peak here was in 2019 with 4.4 million passengers,” said Jeff Mulder, Oklahoma City’s director of airports.Ī driving issue for the expansion was the need for a larger, consolidated security checkpoint with more pre- and post-security space, Mulder said. When design plans were approved for the concourse in 2015, the airport was seeing more than 3.8 million travelers per year and demand continued to grow. Altogether, the airport now has 24 gates and room to add six more. Three of the gates are leased to Delta Air Lines and a fourth can accommodate wide-body aircraft. The $90 million expansion, with four new gates on a new east concourse and an eight-lane consolidated security checkpoint, adds capacity and helps put the “world” in Will Rogers World Airport. The modernized MEM concourse opened in February. The OKC expansion opened in September 2021. ![]() ![]() Take a look at a $90 million terminal expansion at Will Rogers World Airport (OKC) and a $245 million concourse modernization at Memphis international Airport in Tennessee (MEM). While there are some universal challenges and solutions, such as creating new spaces creates new possibilities, no two solutions are exactly the same. How does an airport, through a building project, create a more pleasant passenger experience? That’s the multi-million-dollar question. ![]()
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