Andrew Rush/Andrew Rush/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
People wait in line at the security checkpoint at the Pittsburgh International Airport.
Andrew Rush/Andrew Rush/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
An American Airlines plane takes off at the Pittsburgh International Airport.
Andrew Rush/Andrew Rush/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
People walk through the ticketing area at the Pittsburgh International Airport.
Andrew Rush/Andrew Rush/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
People wait in line at the security checkpoint at the Pittsburgh International Airport.
Andrew Rush/Andrew Rush/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
An American Airlines plane takes off at the Pittsburgh International Airport.
Andrew Rush/Andrew Rush/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
People walk through the ticketing area at the Pittsburgh International Airport.
Andrew Rush/Andrew Rush/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
People wait in line at the security checkpoint at the Pittsburgh International Airport.
An American Airlines plane takes off at the Pittsburgh International Airport.
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So prodigious was the traffic at Pittsburgh International Airport at one point that Cyril Wecht joked that you could probably get a flight to Squirrel Hill. And the former Allegheny County commissioner and nationally known forensic pathologist wasn’t that far off.
Twenty years ago, in August 2001, Pittsburghers could fly nonstop to more than 110 destinations — from Kalamazoo, Michigan to Paris. The ...
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