CHARLOTTE, NC — Charlotte Douglas International Airport plans to start work on a new concourse next spring, adding about a dozen gates for domestic travel.
The new plan replaces an earlier proposal to build a separate international terminal.
Interim Aviation Director Brent Cagle said the new concourse might eventually become a separate international terminal, but Cagle says what the airport needs now is more domestic gates.
Airport officials had previously planned for that space to be used for a new 25-gate international facility at a cost of $175 million. It would have included the required federal inspection and passport facilities.
The new concourse will constructed in two phases and could eventually have about two dozen new gates.