Austin-Bergstrom International Airport
DELAYED3 years late40% CONFIDENCEThe airport's own programme page says Concourse B and its tunnel are "estimated to open in the early 2030s", a span rather than a date.[1]First promised for 01/01/2027; now 3 years later. Stated: Austin-Bergstrom's Journey With AUS page now has Concourse B and the tunnel "estimated to open in the early 2030s", where airport executive Tracy Thompson told airport commissioners in July 2021 that "in our imagination, it's (opening) in about 2027, round figures"; the pandemic cut the airport's revenue and stalled the master plan.
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- Jan 1, 203040% CONFIDENCELow confidencefrom the source
Austin-Bergstrom Opens Concourse B and Its Passenger Tunnel
The airport's second concourse is a standalone midfield building south of the Barbara Jordan Terminal, reached by an underground walkway with moving walkways, and carries a new integrated baggage system. It is meant to open alongside the $865 million Arrivals and Departures Hall under the Journey With AUS programme.
- Concourse B & Tunnel is a new 26-gate midfield concourse at Austin-Bergstrom, built ‘to meet the airport’s long-term passenger activity level demand’ under the Journey With AUS expansion programme[1]
- Southwest Airlines is the anchor tenant with 18 gates, United Airlines takes 5, and 3 gates are left for domestic common use[1]
- The project includes a new subgrade tunnel connecting the Barbara Jordan Terminal to Concourse B, with a passenger conveyance system ‘to assist with passenger movement and capacity for a future Automated People Mover (passenger train) corridor’, and the tunnel can be extended to a future Concourse C[1]
- Scope also covers passenger and tenant spaces, passenger boarding bridges, baggage handling system expansion, apron support and back-of-house spaces, baggage makeup and tug areas, aircraft apron expansion, underground utilities and an in-pavement hydrant fuelling system[1]
- The source gives the opening only as ‘estimated to open in the early 2030s’, with the project still in the design phase — it does not name a day or a year, so the pin’s 2030 date is more precise than the source supports[1]
- Austin City Council authorized $72 million for engineering and architectural services and $1.031 billion for pre-construction and construction services; renderings are pre-design conceptual and ‘final design specifications and features subject to change’[1]
- The Integrated Baggage Handling System spanning from the new Arrivals & Departures Hall to Concourse B & Tunnel is about five miles of conveyor belts, interfacing with the existing Outbound Baggage Handling System that screens 4,000 bags an hour; it is in design and ‘planned to open at the same time as the Concourse B & Tunnel and the New Arrivals & Departures Hall’, budgeted at approximately $300 million[1]
- That Arrivals & Departures Hall, also estimated to open in the early 2030s, is authorized at $45 million for engineering and architectural services plus $820 million for pre-construction and construction — the $865 million the pin cites is that pair of figures combined, not a single number the source states[1]
- Two new concrete parallel midfield taxiways are being built specifically to make Concourse B possible — two miles of taxiway plus connectors, in the build phase and estimated complete in 2027, at $26.7 million plus $320 million[1]
- Concourse M, a separate six-gate midfield facility, is designed to ‘help maintain airline operations and passenger capacity while the main Barbara Jordan Terminal gates are remodeled and the new 26-gate Concourse B is built’; it is in design with construction estimated to begin in summer 2026[1]
- No local Austin taxpayer dollars fund the programme: it draws on airport cash reserves, current and future airport revenues, future revenue bond proceeds and FAA grants, and the FAA issued a Finding of No Significant Impact / Record of Decision on July 22, 2022[1]
Cost $1.1B
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- [1]40%flyaustin.com/expansion-development-programflyaustin.com· Posted Sep 20, 2026· Starts Jan 1, 2030 ✓· 100% of score
The airport's own programme page says Concourse B and its tunnel are "estimated to open in the early 2030s", a span rather than a date.
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