• Runway 28 de-icing pad complete, cost: $7.4 million. The pad accommodates up to seven commercial jets. Phase II of the Runway 28 pad project will add a second 600,000-gallon de-icing fluid storage tank and construct an underground piping system to pump fluid to the tank, cost: $3.5million.
• MAA announces a unique public/private partnership that will build, own and operate new Cargo Complex on the midfield of BWI.
• Plans begin for renovation of Piers A and B, cost: $85.2 million. BWI project will provide more gates for the expansion of Southwest Airlines Co.
• BWI hiker/biker trail complete. The 12.5-mile recreational trail is the only one of its kind in the country that encircles the property of a major commercial airport.
• Southwest Airlines Co. opens first East Coast flight attendant crew base at BWI.
• BWI wins International Marketing Award for its innovative and effective advertising campaign in various British media outlets
• Total passenger traffic reaches more than 17.4 million, a new record for the sixth consecutive year and 16.2 percent increase over 1998 total.

• Southwest Airlines Co. pilot base opened at BWI, brings 200 new jobs with an estimated $42.3 million annual economic impact.
• Adjacent to Runway 28, construction begins on third BWI de-icing pad.
• More than 15 million passengers choose the ‘easy come, easy go’ airport, a new record for the fifth year in a row.

• Federal Aviation Administration brings new, Terminal Doppler Weather Radar System (TDWRS) on line. The TDWRS is better able to detect microbursts and windshear.
• BWI’s new, state-of-the-art Aircraft Rescue Fire-fighting Facility opens in July, housing all aircraft rescue and fire-fighting resources in one location.
• Construction completed on $1.5 million project to modify drains at Pier C. Upgrades, and two additional glycol recovery vehicles, allow collection of de-icing fluid from 13 aircraft gates.
• BWI parking garage expansion project complete, providing a total of 5,600 spaces, 4,600 for public use and 1,000 spaces for rental car storage.
• First moving walkways installed from the airport’s parking garage through the pedestrian tunnel, open to the public.
• Frontier Airlines begins service from BWI to Denver, Colorado.
• Governor William Donald Schaefer International Terminal opens. The $140 million project features Light Rail service on the lower level.
• Total passenger traffic at BWI reaches more than 14 million, a new record for the fourth consecutive year.

• Southwest Airlines begins non-stop flights to Tampa and Orlando and direct service to Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
• BWI Parking Garage expansion project more than doubles the size of the existing garage, accommodating 5,600 vehicles.
• Construction on second de-icing pad complete. The $2.5 million facility accommodates simultaneous de-icing for up to three commuter or general aviation aircraft.
• Total passenger traffic at BWI tops 13.4 million, a new record for the third consecutive year.

• SuperShuttle initiates ground transportation service to Baltimore, Annapolis and Washington D.C.
• First de-icing pad complete, accommodating simultaneous de-icing for up to five commercial jet aircraft, included is a 600,000-gallon storage tank and transmission pipeline between the de-icing pad and tank. Construction on second de-icing pad, adjacent to Runway 15L/33, begins.
• First new gates of Pier C expansion in use, renovations continue.
• BWI Observation Gallery officially opens to the public with enthusiastic response to the Gallery and the Smithsonian Museum Shop.
• Phase Two of the BWI Bike Trail opens to public; Tom Dixon Aircraft Observation Area, on Dorsey Road, re-opens with paved parking, rest room facilities and bike racks.
• United Airlines adds daily non-stop service to San Francisco, with connections to Hong Kong, Osaka, Seoul, Taipei and Tokyo.
• Total passenger traffic at BWI reaches nearly 13.2 million, eclipsing the previous mark set in 1994. The combined commercial passenger increases of 2.7 percent at BWI, in 1995, exceed the 1.4 percent growth rate reported for U.S. airline traffic nationwide, as reported by the Air Transport Association (ATA).

• Construction starts on first de-icing pad adjacent to Runway 15R. The pad was partially completed and used for limited de-icing fluid collection during the winter of 1994-1995.
• First section (4.4-miles) of the 12.6-mile BWI Bike Trail opens in July. Built largely with federal funds, the trail links community resources and employers on the East Side of the airport.
• Mass Transit Administration breaks ground on multi-story-parking garage for BWI Rail Station.
• BWI breaks ground on $27.6 million expansion to extend Pier C, bringing six additional domestic gate positions to the terminal. Southwest Airlines Co. signs up for all six new gate positions.
• Airfield capacity at BWI boosted with completion of extension to Commercial Runway 10/28. The 10,500-foot expansion enables the airport to handle long-haul air traffic in most weather conditions.
• Construction begins on $140-million international terminal to handle projected traffic increases into the 21st century. The new wing will add six gates, more ticket counter space, and expands the existing U.S. Customs and Immigration and Naturalization Service facilities.
• Over 12.8 million passengers served by BWI Airport in 1994, an all-time high nearly 36 percent more than the previous year.

• Construction begins in June on an extension to Runway 10/28 to better accommodate long haul international traffic.
• Southwest Airlines Co. selects BWI as its first East Coast gateway airport. Service begins on Sept. 15th to Cleveland and Chicago.
• British Airways opens service to London’s Gatwick Airport.

• Air Ontario, an Air Canada connector, begins three daily flights from BWI to Toronto. BWI becomes first area airport to offer service to three major Canadian cities.
• Design work begins in October for new international pier, to include ticket counters, gates, federal processing facilities and a terminus for the light rail line from the Baltimore region.
• Construction begins on the BWI Bike Trail, linking recreational resources around BWI and connecting to the Baltimore Annapolis Trail.

New, four-level parking garage, located in the front of the main terminal, opens Sept. 16th. Total cost of the project is $29 million. The garage features space for rental car facilities and 2,800 parking spaces to ease drop-off/pick-up traffic congestion.

• Icelandair begins Boeing 757 service from BWI to Iceland-Stockholm.
• After five years of work, Interstate I-195 opens, connecting BWI directly to I-95, greatly improving access from the Baltimore-Washington metro area.
• BWI ends year with record growth in international passengers (up 34 percent) and freight (up nearly 70 percent) over 1989 totals.