PITTSBURGH —

As the new terminal at Pittsburgh International Airport opens to the public Tuesday, we're looking back at the airport's debut 33 years ago. Advertisement

A WTAE archive report from 1992 shows the final touches being put on the new $780 million airport, the third-largest in the U.S. at that time. The massive midfield terminal complex was twice as large as downtown Pittsburgh.

See how Pittsburgh's new airport looked in 1992: Watch the archive video above!

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Despite its size, the airport promised to offer efficient navigation and a 15-minute maximum transit time to the most distant point at PIT with a series of moving sidewalks and people movers that included trams traveling through tunnels between landside and airside. While travelers were on the move, their luggag

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