TPA's new $320 million express curbside expansion should be completed next summer With a $320 million price tag, Tampa International Airport’s new red express curbside expansion is expected to be wrapped up by the summer of 2025. Similar to the newer blue express curbside, which opened in late-2021, the upcoming red express expansion will allow passengers with carry-on only bags direct access to the transfer level.Read the full story here Credit: Photo via Tampa International Airport/Facebook

TPA’s new $320 million express curbside expansion should be completed next summer With a $320 million price tag, Tampa International Airport’s new red express curbside expansion is expected to be wrapped up by the summer of 2025. Similar to the newer blue express curbside, which opened in late-2021, the upcoming red express expansion will allow passengers with carry-on only bags direct access to the transfer level.Read the full story here Credit: Photo via Tampa International Airport/Facebook

You already know that Tampa Bay is pretty much rain city right now, but gross weather in the Northeast is causing a backup at Tampa International Airport (TPA), too.

TIA just sent out a Twitter message saying that there are currently 129 delayed flights and 14 cancellations.

The airport suggests checking your airline flight for confirmation. We suggest finding that airport bar and giving up on getting up the Eastern Seaboard right now.

Following record-breaking rainfall, the National Weather Service says the Tampa Bay area is currently under a flood watch watch until at least Friday evening, with chances of rain reaching 80% Friday. 

 So far in 2019, Tampa International has already blasted through 2018’s total rainfall numbers of 29.7 inches, with 41.5 inches with 5 months remaining in 2019.


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This article appears in Aug 15-22, 2019.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...