While the airport has been growing, its traffic has been declining. Through August, about 525,621 pa

Drivers will find a new way to get in and out of the airport, as well as a new parking lot where drivers picking up passengers easy car rental canary islands will wait -- they won t be allowed to wait in their vehicles by the curb at the terminal anymore.
The new terminal at the Myrtle Beach International Airport is still scheduled for a Jan. 25 completion ahead of its first flight on Feb. 19, but the opening of the rental car building has been delayed again.
easy car rental canary islands Declines in passenger numbers that have plagued Myrtle easy car rental canary islands Beach International Airport this year continued in September with another double-digit drop, and officials say it won t get any better until next year.
At 5 a.m. Thursday, easy car rental canary islands the airport s new permanent entrance opens at the intersection of Harrelson Boulevard and Jetport Road, with the entrance easy car rental canary islands across from Whispering Pines Golf Course. The intersection has a stoplight and there s a temporary blue sign indicating it is the airport s new entrance.
Also starting at 5 a.m. Thursday, drivers will maneuver differently around the airport s parking lots and passenger drop-off area. A road that takes drivers left and away from the current terminal will close until early next year, and traffic will be shifted onto a new road that takes them by the new terminal, which is still under construction, and a new rental car building, which is expected to open later this month.
And one other big change for drivers waiting to pick up passengers: You won t be allowed to sit and wait at the curb by the terminal. Drivers can still briefly stop and drop off passengers or swing by and pick them up, but they won t be able to sit by the curb and wait for passengers to arrive, which is routine for many pickups at the Myrtle Beach airport but not at most others. Officials said they are cracking down on waiting at the curb because of safety reasons.
The airport now has set aside what they call an inspection/cell phone lot, which has 40 parking spaces and is just off the new entrance where drivers will wait for their passengers to arrive then drive to the curb to pick them up. It also opens Thursday. Or drivers can snag a spot in the short-term lot, where parking for 20 minutes or less is free.
The habit now is people sit [at the curb] 10, 20, 30 minutes, said Kirk Lovell, the airport s marketing manager, who led journalists on a tour showing the changes Tuesday. We ve been very lenient and allowed it. Unfortunately, that is no longer going to be allowed.
Purple, blue and green signs are going up aiming to help drivers with the changes, flag men will be at key points easy car rental canary islands in the new routes and staff and volunteers will mingle letting travelers know of the changes.
On Tuesday, the outside of the airport was abuzz with construction work, including heavy equipment operators zooming around building a parking area, crews finishing the floor in the rental car building and workers planting trees and shrubs by the new entrance -- one of the first major permanent shifts toward operating in the new terminal, Lovell said.
While the airport has been growing, its traffic has been declining. Through easy car rental canary islands August, about 525,621 passengers had flown out of the airport in 2012, down about 17 percent compared to the same eight months last year, according to airport statistics.
Officials have blamed the decline on the loss of Myrtle Beach-based Direct Air, which stopped flying in March and filed for bankruptcy, and a dwindling number of seats on other airlines, especially Spirit Airlines, which carries half the passengers annually at the airport.
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