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Portland International Airport Opens New Main Terminal
Portland International Airport, 7000 NE Airport Way, Portland, OR 97218, United States
DELAYED4 months late44% CONFIDENCE2.1 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "The opening was delayed from the originally scheduled spring opening by four months due to workplace safety issues in April."After a four-year, $2 billion rebuild, Portland International Airport opened its overhauled main terminal, built around a nine-acre mass-timber roof sourced entirely from within 300 miles of the airport.$2.000.67Hong Kong Airport's Three-Runway System Reaches Full Operation
CONFIRMED89% CONFIDENCE1.8 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "all three runways will be operating under the system starting November 28."Hong Kong International Airport's HK$141.5BN Three-Runway System expansion reached full three-runway operation, capping an eight-year project to add capacity on reclaimed land.HK$141.5B0.67Gatwick Completes Main Runway Resurfacing
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE4.0 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: London Gatwick "has just completed (Sept 2022) an innovative plan to resurface its main runway".Gatwick Airport finished an overnight resurfacing of its main runway's busiest sections in September 2022, using a leaner method that cut the job to half the usual time and cost, using 70% less asphalt.0.65Heathrow's £49BN Third Runway Plan
ESTIMATED66% CONFIDENCEin 9.3 yearsA target, per the source[1]: consent is only aimed for "before 2030", after which "a third runway would then open by 2035".Heathrow Airport has set out a £49BN expansion plan, including a long-sought third runway and a new terminal complex, and has approved work on a planning application after decades of UK government indecision.£49B0.65Gatwick's Northern Runway Enters Full Use as a Second Runway
ESTIMATED50% CONFIDENCEin 3.3 yearsThe report says the cleared scheme will "bring the airport's standby northern runway into full use from 2030", a year rather than a fixed date.[1]The privately financed project shifts Gatwick's standby northern runway 12 metres north so it can take departures alongside the main runway, adding room for around 100,000 more flights a year. The Court of Appeal dismissed the last legal challenge on 4 August 2026, and the work also covers terminal extensions, new airport buildings and a flyover at the South Terminal roundabout.£2.2B0.65Melbourne Airport Rail Link
Melbourne Airport, Victoria, Australia
DELAYED4 years late67% CONFIDENCEin 7.3 yearsDate has moved, per the source[1]: originally due by 2029, "that deadline is now looking a lot more like 2033"; Victoria’s own project page confirms the later date.A AU$12BN rail line to finally connect Melbourne Airport to the city, alongside a AU$4.5BN airport overhaul that adds a third runway and expands the international terminal.A$12B0.65Network Rail Completes the London Bridge Station Redevelopment
CONFIRMED83% CONFIDENCE8.4 years agoNetwork Rail's[3] own history page states London Bridge station was officially reopened by the Duke of Cambridge on Wednesday 9 May 2018.Network Rail finished its five-year, roughly £1 billion rebuild of London Bridge station as part of the Thameslink Programme, and Prince William officially reopened the unified station on 9 May 2018. The project gave the station a single new concourse and step-free access to every platform.0.65Vienna's Aspern Seestadt Aims to Finish Its Final Stage
Seestadt Aspern, Vienna, Austria
ESTIMATED63% CONFIDENCEin 4.3 yearsEstimated: Wikipedia's[2] staging table ends stage 3 in 2028, but Dezeen[3] (5 March 2024) and the City of Vienna give the district's completion as 2030, and the pin's date is that completion, so it uses the end of 2030.Vienna is building out Aspern Seestadt, a $6BN new city quarter on a former airfield meant to house 25,000 residents once its final construction stage wraps up.$6.000.64SFO's Terminal 3 West Expansion Opens
Terminal 3, San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, CA 94128San Francisco International Airport
ESTIMATED50% CONFIDENCEin 343 daysThe builder's announcement says the expansion "is scheduled to open in the fall of 2027", a season rather than a day.[1]Turner broke ground on 5 September 2024 on the $2.6 billion modernization of SFO's Terminal 3: a 200,000-square-foot expansion, 650,000 square feet of renovation and a new six-story building holding airline lounges and operational offices. The eastern addition follows in 2029.0.64O'Hare's Satellite Concourse 1 Is Finished
Satellite Concourse 1, O'Hare International Airport, Chicago, IllinoisChicago Department of Aviation
DELAYED3 years late40% CONFIDENCEin 2.0 yearsSatellite Concourse 1 "began vertical construction in April 2026 with a targeted completion date of late 2028" - a season rather than a day, and one that has already moved.[1]The first of two satellite concourses west of O'Hare's terminal core, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill with Norviska and designated Concourse D, is reached by an underground tunnel from the terminals. Vertical construction started in April 2026; the $1.45 billion concourse is the first piece of the O'Hare 21 rebuild to be delivered, a programme approved in 2018 at $8.5 billion and now put at roughly $12 billion in current dollars.$1.4B0.64Congonhas Airport's New Terminal Due to Finish in June 2028
ESTIMATED50% CONFIDENCEin 1.8 yearsAena's[1] release says the new terminal is "scheduled for completion in June 2028", a month rather than a fixed day.Aena is doubling the boarding and arrivals area to 105,000 square metres and replacing the airport's 12 airbridges with 19, so that 70 per cent of boardings are direct to the aircraft. A new 215,000-square-metre apron takes commercial aircraft stands from 30 to 37 and lifts capacity to 29.5 million passengers a year; work began in 2024.R$2B0.63Denver Airport's Great Hall Program Targets 2027 Completion
Denver International Airport, 8500 Peña Boulevard, Denver, Colorado, United StatesDenver International Airport
SCHEDULED74% CONFIDENCEin 1.3 yearsGiven as scheduled, per the source[1]: "the airport says work will be completed on time and on budget in 2027."Denver International Airport's long-running Great Hall renovation, meant to modernise its original 1995 terminal and add new security checkpoints, is now scheduled to finish by the end of 2027.$1.3B0.63
