Economics
Salt Lake City Renovates Airport With Nod to Mormon Clients
- Airport is in the middle a $3.6 billion construction project
- The overhaul includes meeter-greeter areas for Mormon families
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When members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints return from missionary work, they’re usually greeted at the airport by their entire family, sometimes with professionally made ‘Welcome Home’ banners, balloons, horns and even photographers.
In Salt Lake City -- headquarters of the Mormon church -- those crowds have clogged up the waiting and baggage-claim areas and parking lots at Salt Lake City International Airport, where tens of thousands of church members head out and come back from missions that can last two years. It’s become a problem for an airport that has gained a reputation as being crowded and difficult to traverse at a time when the region’s population is swelling.