{"id":46486,"date":"2020-04-21T12:09:38","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T16:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=46486"},"modified":"2020-04-21T12:09:46","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T16:09:46","slug":"southwest-florida-international-airport-to-close-concourse-c-temporarily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2020\/04\/southwest-florida-international-airport-to-close-concourse-c-temporarily\/","title":{"rendered":"Southwest Florida International Airport to  close Concourse C temporarily"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Southwest Florida International Airport will be temporarily closing Concourse C, the airport announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"438\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/0d355ecd40ca24700f3ee5c2e46bfd14.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-46487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/0d355ecd40ca24700f3ee5c2e46bfd14.jpg 640w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/0d355ecd40ca24700f3ee5c2e46bfd14-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The concourse will be closing on Thursday, April 23, &#8220;in an effort to consolidate airport resources,&#8221; Lee County Port Authority said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This closure will impact Delta Air Lines and United Airlines passengers flying to and from RSW. Delta passengers will go to Concourse D and United passengers will go to Concourse B for screenings and flights, authorities said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ticketing and check-in for Delta and United will remain the same. Flight arrivals scheduled for Concourse C will be moved to either Concourse D or B.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Vicki Moreland with the LCPA, the airport doesn&#8217;t have a reopening date at this time. She also said that no LCPA employees have been laid off, &#8220;nor do we intend to do so.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three&nbsp;TSA agents at RSW have tested positive for coronavirus. Moreland said the airport is helping TSA with keeping checkpoints clean and sanitized.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Employees have been using disinfectant spray at the checkpoints, according to Moreland.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southwest Florida International Airport will be temporarily closing Concourse C, the airport announced Tuesday. The concourse will be closing on Thursday, April 23, &#8220;in an effort to consolidate airport resources,&#8221;&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":46487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46486"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}