(File Photo: Credit for Photo: Courtesy of Sebastian Foltz/ Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Caption for Photo: A sign welcomes guest to new terminal at Pittsburgh International Airport on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025. (Sebastian Foltz/ Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) Bob Kerlik, the Director of Public Affairs at the Pittsburgh International Airport, spoke on Beaver County Radio’s “Driving in the Fast Lane with Frank Sparks” this morning about the brand-new $1.7 billion landside terminal that had its grand opening at the airport in Pittsburgh on Tuesday. This project took at least a decade of planning and the groundbreaking for the new terminal began in October of 2021. Kerlik said that the new terminal opening is “a new day for the region” and that the people that have gone through it so far have been impressed with it. There is a new landside building and there will be one connected facility. Kerlik also noted that the new terminal was “designed with Pittsburgh in mind,” and its three main aesthetics are the waving roof meant to imitate Western Pennsylvania’s rolling hills, the ceiling that is made of metal that is made to look like wood with 4,500 constellation lights which is meant to look like the starry sky and intuitively guides you to the security checkpoint, and the different steel tree columns, which were fabricated in Ambridge at Sippel Steel Fab, which consisted of 16,000 tons of steel. This terminal project includes more TSA lanes for a security experience that is faster, a reduced bag belt with just three miles of distance cut down from eight miles, a new parking garage with 3,300 additional spaces besides the parking lot that is a five minute walk away from it, along with a terminal parking lot, as well as a new skybridge which connects the new landslide terminal with the current airside terminal. Kerlik also let people know that there is a website where you can book parking in advance online so you can receive cheaper rates of parking and so you can get the lot of your choosing, and you can go to it by clicking here.