Airport renovation is a decades-long process. However, planners bringing the Salt Lake City International Airport into the 21st century have never forgotten Utah's disabled fliers.
SALT LAKE CITY — Airport renovation is a decades-long process. However, planners bringing the Salt Lake City International Airport into the 21st century have never forgotten Utah's disabled fliers — striving to make it accessible for all.I visited the beehive that is the TSA checkpoint of the new Salt Lake airport. Agents patted down my wheelchair, and soon enough I rejoined my hosts underneath the flowing Narrows-like decor of the main plaza.
Volmer is the airport's director of communication and marketing. The "masterplan" to rebuild the entire airport survived 9/11's fallout, the great recession and a worldwide pandemic. She's working with Mark Cheminant, the airport's main Americans with disabilities coordinator, to create a beautiful airport giving travelers a taste of Utah while accommodating disabled flyers.Flying in a wheelchair is hard.
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