Expansion
An expansion programme initiated in October 2007 is nearing completion. The expansion increased the number of gates available for aircraft, improved apron capacity, and significantly increased the number of food and beverage options available in the terminal for passenger use. It also implemented incremental improvements like improving de-icing capacity and implementing common use systems for airlines.
A 210 room Courtyard by Marriott hotel is under construction adjacent to the north terminal and is expected to open in January 2013.
Edmonton International is an Airbus A380-compatible airport. Taxiway widening and other improvements have been undertaken.
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“The fundamental steps of expansion that will open a person, over time, to the full flowering of his or her individuality are the same for both genders. But men and women are rarely in the same place struggling with the same questions at the same age.”
—Gail Sheehy (20th century)
“Every expansion of government in business means that government in order to protect itself from the political consequences of its errors and wrongs is driven irresistibly without peace to greater and greater control of the nation’s press and platform. Free speech does not live many hours after free industry and free commerce die.”
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“We are caught up Mr. Perry on a great wave whether we will or no, a great wave of expansion and progress. All these mechanical inventions—telephones, electricity, steel bridges, horseless vehicles—they are all leading somewhere. It’s up to us to be on the inside in the forefront of progress.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)