Time to replace KCI, airlines say, and they will pay

A rendering of a potential new ticketing hall shown to the city council. The airlines at KCI want to build a new single terminal airport, will pay for it and need it to grow. They conveyed that message to the city council Wednesday, and also ...

Build new single terminal airport, airlines say

Lou Salomon before the council committee. Major renovations of two of the three KCI terminals would cost more and not fix many problems that would be solved by a new single terminal airport, the airlines consultant said again today. Lou Salomon, ...

Flying into political flak: Airlines support a new single terminal KCI

Lou Salomon, an executive with AvAirpros, spoke to the council aviation committee. The airlines at KCI, which would pay for a new single terminal airport, want one built to properly take the city into the future, their consultant said today. A ...

KCI talks going well, experts report

Photo courtesy KCI. Negotiations on improvements to KCI are going well and could become a national model, an airlines executive and aviation consultant reported Thursday. The city initiated the two-year process after a citizen study group recommended ...

At KCI, cows make money and control deer

Look down as your plane leaves KCI and you’ll see cattle, lots of cattle. The aviation department leases some of its 6,400 acres of available land for use by about 500 cattle, raising the city close to $500,000 a year. That’s a small part ...

KCI officials work for more flights

The city got a report on citizen satisfaction with airport services yesterday. They were asked which two airport services residents thought should receive the most emphasis from the city over the next two years. As a mayor’s task force studies ...

KCI old but popular

By Joe Lambe Many people in Kansas City like KCI just the way it is, thank you. They told that to the Airport Terminal Advisory Group on Monday at the Robert J. Mohart Multipurpose Center in Midtown. About 10 of them spoke at the public hearing ...
A rendering of the new KCI airport.

Public hearing tonight on airport future

The city has released this video tour of KCI for people interested in the future of the airport. It features a behind the scenes tour of the airport taken by members of the advisory group as they learned about the airport’s infrastructure, ...
A rendering of the new KCI airport.

Experts said new airport affordable

Independent consultants on Tuesday took no position on whether to build a new airport, but said that can be done without big airfare increases. That counters local airline executives who have said an expensive new airport could drive up fares ...
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Business leaders want a new KCI

Bill White, a senior vice president at Sprint, was among business people who testified in favor of a new downtown airport. Business leaders today spoke in favor of a new Kansas City airport, calling KCI an outdated, inefficient and embarrassing ...