Kansas City International Airport Construction Films - "Target:1972" 

Hi from Kansas 🇺🇸

Now it’s a new airport, new women’s soccer stadium, downtown ballpark by end of decade, and chiefs will have new digs within the next 10 years. They will build in on the old Kauffman Stadium site.

@@markfroman738 yeah it’s like it’s all happening again. Pretty exciting

In the early 1980's, TWA asked Kansas City to invest in a major airport redevelopment plan that would have greatly expanded the terminal buildings with expanded check-in areas, dedicated security checkpoints, terminal connection structures, additional restrooms and retail spaces, and moving walkways to make it easier for connecting passengers to make connections. They also wanted major changes to terminal C to handle more widebody jets. However, the city said no because MCI's construction ran over budget and was still underwater; and TWA didn't have the capital resources to do it themselves. As a result, TWA focused on St. Louis and merged with Ozark. A few airlines tried building a hub at MCI (Braniff International, Braniff 2, United, Eastern, and USAir), but due to how the terminals were constructed, it was a very inconvenient design to support a true airline hub.

From what I was told is that Saint Louis built a bigger airport and took all the international flights from KC.

@@raha243 St. Louis Lambert Airport is smaller than KCI, it’s a 1 terminal design just like KCI will soon be. British Airways has expressed interest to flying to KCI once the new terminal is complete

But it's being used at half capacity. So it works out in the end. It's also possible to build a 2nd terminal identical to the new one on the other side of the airport where Terminal D would have been.