![]() ![]() ![]() “We’ve had to find alternate materials, alternate suppliers and to work through that,” said Semtner. The airport is also in a position to add on six additional gates as demand requires in the future, which accompanies a current plan to renovate 21,000 square feet of the original terminal.Ĭontractors contended with supply chain issues caused by the pandemic while constructing the 133,000-square-foot expansion project, while also trying not to disturb a fully functioning airport. The shops and restaurants will start opening later this month and through October, with Vino Volo, a restaurant and bar, set to open in November. Plenty Mercantile, Elemental Coffee, Tin Lizzie’s, Hatch and Osteria are several of the local businesses that will set up shop, to be accompanied by national brands like Starbucks, Freddy’s Frozen Custard and Steakburgers and Tropical Smoothie. The Transportation Security Administration will start transitioning the new terminal from construction site into a secured location able to accept passengers over the coming weeks. “You used to pick up your family standing next to the escalators now there’s actually lounges for you to wait and hang out and spend time,” said Semtner. Security screenings also will change with the transition as a new eight-lane checkpoint takes the place of current screening areas, which in turn will be made into meet and greet areas. More: Skydweller raises an extra $8 million to develop solar-powered aircraft in Oklahoma “We’re adding the world back to Will Rogers World Airport.” “We haven’t been able to bring in international flights since 9/11 because we didn’t have a hold area for customs, so we built those,” said John Semtner, principal of FSB, the project's architecture and engineering firm. ![]() The fourth gate was built with international travel in mind, with a customs area connected underneath the new main concourse that will allow the airport to accept international flights. ![]() Three of the four new gates have been leased to Delta Air Lines, which will move operations from its current gate locations in the airport to the new wing. ![]()
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