It won’t be long now before the new $1.7 billion landside terminal opens at Pittsburgh International Airport, Allegheny County Airport Authority CEO Christina Cassotis confirmed Thursday afternoon. Much of the work scheduled before the new terminal opens has already been completed, and there will be a large-scale public trial Saturday with about 2,000 people who will put the airport’s new systems through its paces, the second time in a month.
“Then shortly thereafter, we’ll be announcing opening, which before anybody asks, will be before Thanksgiving, but I’m not giving you the date,” Cassotis said Thursday afternoon as the keynote speaker of the Pittsburgh Business Times’ VisionPittsburgh series. Cassotis spoke in a fireside chat with Business Times Publisher Evan Rosenberg to a capacity crowd at the Duquesne Club in downtown Pittsburgh. There have been thousands of people who have toured the terminal, between the small groups that have walked through during the construction phases to industry officials and a star-studded gala held Oct. 3 inside the terminal and, on Oct. 11, the community open house that drew 10,000 people.
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Originally published: October 23, 2025
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