{"id":98881291,"date":"2011-01-05T11:41:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T11:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/travel-trends\/philadelphia-airport-expansion-given-approval\/"},"modified":"2018-10-18T09:51:37","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T13:51:37","slug":"philadelphia-airport-expansion-given-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/philadelphia-airport-expansion-given-approval\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Airport Expansion Given Approval"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Philly will soon see a major airport expansion (Image: Wikimedia)\" src=\"\/going-places\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/2011\/1\/Philadelphia_skyline_at_sunrise.JPG\" alt=\"Philly will soon see a major airport expansion (Image: Wikimedia)\" width=\"387\" height=\"312\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The FAA has given approval for a plan that will greatly expand Philadelphia International Airport over the next 15 years.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The plan calls for the expansion of two existing runways, the construction of a new commuter terminal, and the creation of a fifth runway which will run along the Delaware River.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Officials say the vast changes are designed to reduce delays at the airport and handle anticipated growth over the next 50 years.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The ambitious project comes with a whopping $5.2 billion price tag and will displace nearly seventy homes in the surrounding area.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Those homes are expected to be purchased by the city and demolished ahead of construction. The massive project is expected to be completed by 2025.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Top_News\/US\/2011\/01\/05\/Philadelphia-airport-enlargement-approved\/UPI-64891294238531\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">UPI <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FAA has given approval for a plan that will greatly expand Philadelphia International Airport over the next 15 years. &nbsp; The plan calls for the expansion of two existing runways, the construction of a new commuter terminal, and the creation of a fifth runway which will run along the Delaware River. &nbsp; Officials say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98881291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98881291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98897772,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881291\/revisions\/98897772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98881291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98881291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98881291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}