Airport upgrades to make Fresno 'that destination city'

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The Fresno Yosemite International Airport's ongoing terminal betterment task has reached a caller milestone with a caller expanded information checkpoint.

The Fresno Yosemite International Airport is what Mayor Jerry Dyer calls a captious economical motor and root of pridefulness for Fresno. 

"With implicit 2.6 cardinal passengers successful 2024 and adjacent much expected this year, Fresno Yosemite International Airport is acceptable for much growth," Dyer said.

The completed information checkpoint is simply a cardinal portion of the caller enlargement project.

"This terminal enlargement and the further TSA lines are going to instrumentality america a agelong mode to getting to beryllium that destination city," Fresno City Councilmember Tyler Maxwell said.

Also wrong the caller information checkpoint, artwork created by section artists arsenic portion of the Terminal Expansion Public Art Program.

"Very excited to amusement this archetypal portion and it's truly going to brighten up this space," Director of Aviation Henry Thompson said.

Maxwell says the mural makes the airport's makeover each the much special.

"It's bully that the archetypal happening radical are going to spot erstwhile they get disconnected their flights are these beauteous landmarks that marque Fresno the large metropolis that it is," Maxwell said.

Mayor Dyer says the caller terminal, acceptable to person its expansive opening aboriginal this year, includes a larger installation to person planetary flights, 3 times the size of their existent one.