The expansion project aims to improve domestic connections for passengers between concourses A and B while adding new concession space and modern bathroom facilities.
It comes as Southwest Airlines, the airport’s main carrier, works on a $135 million maintenance facility at BWI, its first in the Northeast.
Officials say the next phase of development will ensure that Baltimore remains an attractive choice for Washington-area travelers who have access to three major airports. It also will allow for future growth as the airport works to return to the record passenger traffic it was experiencing before the pandemic. In 2019, with nearly 27 million passengers passing through BWI, it was the busiest airport in the Washington region.
“That increase of passengers is causing stress on our hold rooms, our restrooms, our concessions, all the facilities or amenities in the airport that passengers experience,” he said. “Without the A/B Connector project, Southwest Airlines could not experience the growth that the market is demanding here, and so we have to provide them the capacity to grow. We want to make sure that that demand continues.
Maryland Transportation Secretary James F. Ports Jr. said at a recent regional transportation panel that the project is “one of the largest capital expenditures” in Maryland and that, along with Southwest’s plans for a maintenance facility, it will create jobs in the state.
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