Orlando airport’s multibillion-dollar spending spree will modernize aging terminals. Here’s the plan

Orlando’s airport was as deserted as a shopping mall gone to seed when the pandemic collapsed air travel.

Amid that gloom, airport leaders worried their aging terminals A and B were becoming obsolete and perhaps due to be torn down or repurposed for other use.

At the same time, Terminal C was under construction with majestic architecture and dazzling traveler amenities that promised an exciting future, deepening the conviction that A and B’s days were numbered.

But those considerations are as forgotten now as Covid mask mandates.

Without fanfare but with growing momentum, the airport’s authority is pursuing instead an enormous upgrade to the North...