Over its one hundred-year history, the Salt Lake City International Airport has undoubtedly contributed to the fabric of millions of life stories. Author Bim Oliver deftly recounts the airport’s major milestones with entertaining detail, events including the airfield’s 1920 dedication, the pivotal role air mail service played in the airport’s development, the rise of commercial airlines, the revolutionary impact of 1978’s Deregulation Act, Salt Lake’s hub designation, and hosting thousands of athletes and spectators for the 2002 Olympic Winter Games, to name just a few.
It seems fitting that the Salt Lake City International Airport is embarking on its next one hundred years with the opening of The New SLC, the nation’s first new hub airport of the twenty-first century. The New SLC is an awe-inspiring tribute to Utah that took more than twenty years of planning and designing and six years of construction (Amid the COVID-19 pandemic and an earthquake) to realize.