Pittsburgh Patrika January 2022

The Pittsburgh Patrika, Vol. 27 No 2, January 2022
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of passengers passing through its gates increased rapidly. Most were
transit passengers changing flights to reach
their final destinations. So, the then stateof-the-art
terminal with 75 gates in four
concourses was built in 1992 to meet the
airline’s demands.
Then the 9/11 disaster in 2001 devastated
the airline industry. Meanwhile, US Airways
was expanding its
presence in Philadelphia.
When
Mr. Bill Peduto, Pittsburgh’s
mayor speaks at the event
U S A i r w a y s
closed its PIT
hub (and moved
to Philadelphia),
the volume of passengers at the Pittsburgh
airport plummeted to just over 6 million per
year. Over 15,000 jobs vanished in the region.
This devastated the airport’s operations and the
region’s image, even as we were struggling to
recover from the steel industry’s death here in the 1970s.
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Ms. Christina Cassotis, CEO.
Allegheny County Airport Authority
at the podium.