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Airport Completes $85M Expansion Work

MINNEAPOLIS-Two new concourses and an expanded third concourse will add some 36 new gates, as well as some retail space along the way. It is one phase of a $250-million expansion at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.

By Jim McCartney | Updated on June 03, 2002

MINNEAPOLIS-The Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport recently opened two new regional concourses and six new gates at a third concourse as part of a $250-million expansion. In all, new aircraft gates at Concourses A and B will open as part of an $85-million phase of the expansion with additional jet gates scheduled to open on Concourse C by year’s end.

“Our new regional facility is among the first in the nation to offer dedicated gate hold areas and loading bridges for regional flights,” says Charles Nichols, chairman of the Metropolitan Airports Commission,which operates MSP.

Nichols says the new facilities are opening at a time when airlines nationally are exploring increased use of extended-range regional aircraft. The smaller jets are more cost-efficient to operate on routes with too little demand to fill larger aircraft.

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