Peak inside NOLA’s $1B terminal

New Orleans' new $1B airport terminal is entering its final months of construction with most of the work shifting to its interior. The terminal is set to open in May 2019, and was roughly 90 percent complete heading into early December, according to a team overseeing construction. On a NOLA.com tour Dec. 19, the facility was bustling with some thousand workers putting up drywall, wiring security stations, and working from lifts to fine-tune thousands of feet of baggage belts. Airport officials have released construction-progress photos of the 35-gate terminal throughout 2018. In walking the facility for the first time, it’s a striking experience. The scale is enormous with soaring ceilings, massive skylights, and a consolidated security checkpoint area the size of a football field. (Source: NOLA.com 12/21/18)