Pittsburgh Airport Terminal Record · Sources
Who is on the record, and who is not
The ribbon-cutting drew officials from the county to the U.S. Senate. The one voice missing from the accountability questions was the airport's own.
On the record at the event
Christina Cassotis — CEO, Allegheny County Airport AuthorityPresented the project, the jobs figure, and the economic-impact claim
Sara Innamorato — Allegheny County Executive
Chris Deluzio — U.S. Representative (D-17), House aviation subcommitteeAnnounced federal funding tranches for the terminal (Deluzio release, archived)
Josh Shapiro · Austin Davis · Mike Carroll — Governor, Lt. Governor, PennDOT Secretary
Dave McCormick · Summer Lee · Mike Kelly — U.S. Senator and Representatives
Devlin Robinson · Valerie Gaydos · Pat Catena · Rich Fitzgerald — state and county officials
The right-of-reply that went unanswered
Bob Kerlik — Airport Authority spokesmanDid not respond by deadline to questions on total bonds, annual debt service, and permanent-job conversion. The figures he did not provide were later reconstructed from the Authority's own audited 2024 financial report (see
FACT-CHECK.md).
Documentary record (archived and hashed)
Every source below is captured in 01-sources-archive/raw/ with a SHA-256 sidecar and listed in MANIFEST.md.
Allegheny County Airport Authority — 2024 Annual Comprehensive Financial ReportAudited. The bond series, par amounts, and the debt-service schedule to 2056
Allegheny County Airport Authority — 2019 Comprehensive Annual Financial ReportAudited. The near-debt-free baseline before the terminal program
FAA — Airport Terminals Program (IIJA)The federal program behind the $129.7M in grants
Rep. Chris Deluzio — federal grant releaseA documented $10.5M tranche toward the terminal
ACAA Economic Impact StudyThe commissioned source of the 14,300-jobs and $2.5B claims
Center for American Progress — PIT Terminal ModernizationAn independent description of the project scope and financing
A note on the record: this was coverage of a public ceremony, so the officials above are quoted from their remarks at the event, not from recorded sit-down interviews. The accountability answers the Authority declined to give at the podium were reconstructed from its own audited financial reports, each archived here and fixed by a SHA-256 hash. The spokesman's non-response is recorded as it happened.
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