Boise Airport lays out multi-year airfield reconstruction, Concourse A apron work and tenant relocations

Boise — Airport staff told the Boise Airport Commission on March 5 that work on the Concourse A apron and a concurrent East deice-apron expansion will begin in 2025 and that a multi-year program of runway and taxiway reconstruction will continue through 2029.

The airport plans a Concourse A apron phase 1 scheduled for about 90 calendar days in 2025, and an East D deice-apron expansion scheduled for about 83 days, Marcus Green, airport staff, said during the meeting. To construct the apron work safely, portions of Taxiway Alpha and the north runway will be closed to allow back-taxi operations; Green said the closure pattern and back-taxi plan were coordinated with the control tower and the Federal Aviation Administration.

“The tower does not like to have taxiing aircraft on it,” Green said. “This has been coordinated with the tower.”

Why it matters: the apron work makes room for the new Concourse A gates and will add remote overnight/parking positions for air carriers. The 2025 apron work will remove and replace pavement to current design standards — the concrete apron slabs are planned at roughly 16 inches thick — and will create three to four remote overnight parking spots for…