OMAHA- Roomier boarding gates. Larger baggage claim. One unified passenger concourse. More restaurants and shops. A giant glass-domed entrance. All that is in the works at Eppley Airfield as part of the airport’s $950 million terminal modernization program, announced by the Omaha Airport Authority. The expansion will add 646,000 square feet.

“We are transforming Eppley Airfield,” said Dave Roth, the airport authority’s chief executive officer. “I don’t think there’s a square foot (of the terminal) we aren’t touching.” Work will start within a few weeks and be completed in 2028, although travelers will use some parts of the new terminal well before that. The expansion comes as the yearly traffic continuously increases.

But the transformation won’t be cheap. The cost has risen sharply from the last published estimate of $600 million, in 2022. Roth said the earlier estimate actually dates to 2013 and the current price tag reflects inflation that has affected the building industry since then, including post-pandemic construction and labor costs.

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