The ongoing $3.6 billion rebuild of Salt Lake City International Airport should give Delta Air Lines and its hub there a big competitive advantage in the West, a top airline official said Wednesday.
“We’re going to look back on it and go, ‘That was money well spent,’” Holden Shannon, Delta’s senior vice president of real estate, told a convention of the Airports Council International, meeting at the Grand America Hotel in Salt Lake City. He added the new airport “is remarkable.”
Shannon said Delta is in the process of spending $12 billion to $14 billion through passenger fees nationwide to help upgrade its terminals at airports including Salt Lake City, New York’s LaGuardia, Seattle, Atlanta and Los Angeles International.