Miami International Airport's Capital Improvement Program (CIP) continues to deliver elegant, efficient new facilities for passengers worldwide and the local South Florida community to enjoy. When the CIP is completed in early 2013, MIA will practically be a new airport, with a five-year-old South Terminal and a brand new North Terminal combining to serve approximately 95 percent of the airport's passengers. Connecting both terminal facilities and the airport's parking garages is a system of moving walkways on the third level.

In addition, the MIA Mover, an above-ground, automated people mover system that opened in September 2011, quickly and seamlessly connects MIA passengers to the airport's four-level, consolidated Rental Car Center and Miami-Dade County's future "grand central station" - the Miami Intermodal Center.

April 2012

America's Best Airports  

Best: No. 10 - Miami International (MIA)

If you're landing here to party at South Beach, you won't have to travel too far; the airport is ranked sixth for location. And after those late nights, you can recover with a treatment at one of the airport's No. 3-rated spas before heading home. You'd be smart to carry on any designer duds; the airport ranked 13th for baggage handling and for the check-in and security process. Readers also faulted the airport for lack of kids' zones, but that may be beside the point for the Miami crowd. Continue  

North Terminal Projects Honored by Engineering News-Record 

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MIA's North Terminal

Two new areas in MIA's North Terminal have been named among 35 winners in Engineering News-Record Southeast's 2011 Best Projects competition.  North Terminal's Concourse D skytrain and Regional Commuter Facility were joint Merit Award winners in the Transportation category.  The Concourse D skytrain, which opened last September, connects passengers from one end of Concourse D to the other within a few minutes and has reduced the average walking time in North Terminal by 50 percent. 

Concourse D skytrain Station - Photo by Odebrecht

The Regional Commuter Facility is a 50,000-square-foot extension of North Terminal that opened last August to serve American Eagle's regional jet operations and includes two new concourse-level gates, a new passenger waiting area and outdoor walkways to 12 lower-level gates.  Engineering News-Record, published by McGraw-Hill, is one of the leading publications in the construction industry. Continue