New plans have been unveiled to expand Concourse D at Miami International Airport.

The plans, which were announced made by Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, Miami-Dade County Commissioners, and American Airlines CEO Robert Isom, along with local, state, and federal officials, include a new expansion at Gate D60, which will create 17 new aircraft gates and adjoining passenger boarding areas, additional dining and shopping options, and an enhanced baggage handling system by the year 2030.

Scheduled to break ground in 2027, the 1 billion USD, three-level extension will see a total conversion of the existing gate D60 area to accommodate 17 traditional contact gates for larger regional and narrow-body aircraft, each with individual, spacious passenger hold rooms.

Currently, the area features one common boarding space and 17 ground-level gates for smaller regional jets. Once extended, the area will provide third-level connections to Concourse D’s US Customs and Border Protection facility for international arrivals.

The D60 expansion is one of the most monumental customer service improvements within our unprecedented airport-wide modernization plan, which will transform the passenger experience at MIA from the cabin to the curb over the next five years.

MIA ranks among the fastest-growing global hubs since the pandemic, and the North Terminal expansion, coupled with South Terminal’s future Concourse K and the Central Terminal redevelopment, will create a new future-ready gateway fully enabled to serve our millions of visitors for decades to come.

The new Gate D60 extension is also set to include a number of sustainable building features designed to earn the facility LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Silver and Envision Verified certifications. It is one of over 200 projects within a 9 billion uSD M.I.A. Plan, with other major works including a new Ibis Garage, which opened in December; modernisation and preventive maintenance for more than 600 elevators, escalators, and moving walkways; renovation of 196 bathrooms located on all three levels of MIA’s terminal and concourses; the new Concourse K expansion scheduled to open in 2029; and the 745 million USD Central Terminal redevelopment project, which aims to modernise MIA’s oldest terminal area by 2031.