Salt Lake City (SLC)

My first few trips to SLC were in the early 2010s, with four separate trips to Salt Lake City.

By the next time I flew through SLC on a layover in early 2020, the airport had started work on a new terminal, built in stages where the old terminal used to be. A small portion of the new terminal was open, but my layover was in the old terminal and not long enough for me to visit the new facilities.

By the time I visited Salt Lake City again in 2024, the old SLC terminal was completely gone, and the new terminal was mostly complete. The new facilities consist of two parallel concourses (A and B), with the landside terminal connected to the center of Concourse A – similar to Denver or Atlanta but with fewer concourses. All of the new Concourse A and half of the new Concourse B were open. The central tunnel from A to B (which would connect near the security checkpoint) was not yet complete, so to get to my flights in Concourse B required a walk down to a temporary tunnel further away from the checkpoint.