Salt Lake City International Airport officials just finished a year of trying to look into the future to guess what its needs will be in the next 20 years. They estimate that it could be serving 65% more passengers by then.
Officials delivered that news in the first of a series of public meetings to help develop a new master plan to guide the airport’s next two decades. The last such plan completed back in 1998 accurately foresaw the need and general design of the new $3.6 billion airport now being built essentially atop the existing facility.