Business View Magazine | March 2020

169 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE MARCH 2020 B I LL INGS LOGAN INTERNAT IONAL A I RPORT operations, the support businesses start to do better as well.” Meanwhile, the Airport has several ongoing projects of its own. Key is replacing and expanding the terminal’s concourse from five loading bridges to eight, so that the airlines can load and unload their passengers more efficiently. “The construction is broken into four phases,” Ploehn notes. “The first phase started in September and we’re in the middle of that, right now. The first phase was to set things up for the larger phases; we had to move some people around, get some concessions reorganized, and build some temporary spaces so when we moved everybody to one end, we’d have some additional holding room space for ground loading. We’re off and running with that. That first phase should wrap up this spring and then they’ll jump to the much larger phases of constructing the new concourse. The whole project is about $60 million. There’s FAA funding involved, PFC (Passenger Facility Charge) funding, and then some revenue bond funding to ...........................................................................................