Feb 26, 2023
This final post is a celebration, a salute, a thank you, and a farewell. In a couple of days, we’ll open the gates to a new terminal at KCI. It’s another moment of pride for a city that has had many such moments recently. It’s also a moment of...
Dec 26, 2018
A week or so ago, in light of the continuing escalation costs of a new terminal at Kansas City International Airport, I posed a simple question: How will we make the projected $125 million dollar annual debt payments when we currently have less than a third of that...
Dec 16, 2018
Recently it was announced that the airlines and the city were revisiting “the scope” of the new terminal at Kansas City International Airport. Of course, this is due to the seemingly never-ending increases in the projected cost of completion. What started...
Nov 18, 2018
Is anyone really surprised that the chaos that preceded the KCI vote last year has been one-upped by the chaos that followed? Of course the good news is that now, finally, the airlines have said what I and others have been saying all along – they’re not...
Oct 30, 2018
It’s been nearly a year since voters approved a new KCI terminal in spite of having no final plan or solid cost estimates on which to vote. There were of course, nice renderings with an impressive grand lobby fountain, a projected opening date of late 2021, and...
Nov 11, 2017
The city has come together and overwhelmingly made its decision on Kansas City International Airport. We’ve said that we want a new single-terminal at KCI and more specifically, since the final terms, plans and costs are not yet agreed upon, we’ve said...
Nov 6, 2017
It is with great joy that I see the countdown clock on the blog read less than a day until the polls open. After 4+ years of this and a neglected job that has nothing to do with KCI, airlines, TSA, politics or $10 hot dogs… it’s time to move on. Please...
Nov 1, 2017
There is a popular expression employed by VisitKC and other KC promoters: “This Is How We Do Kansas City.” But nearly everyone agrees that the process by which we’ve evaluated the need for a single terminal at Kansas City International Airport has...
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