"As expected, Mayor Wellington Webb announced today that the new Denver International Airport, already six months late and more than $1 billion over budget, will not open on May 15, missing its fourth deadline." [1]

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/03/us/denver-delays-opening-o...

> I remember DIA

The IATA code for Denver International Airport is DEN. I originally heard it by DIA and was confused many years ago, so I looked it up. Not a huge deal as most airline folks know both versions, but wanted to share the knowledge in case it was useful.

Is this the same airport that constantly made the news for its troublesome baggage system?

Edit: Yep - https://www.bizjournals.com/denver/blog/broadway_17th/2015/0...

As others have noted, it was hardly flawless though arguably just par for the course troubled except for the baggage system. And that was for an airport basically built in the middle of nowhere.

One can argue that Denvers airport was one of the most successful government infrastructure projects in the US over the last 30 years.

It's not a bad airport. Its downside is that it was popped down in empty land to the northeast of the city so it's significantly farther from downtown and farther from many of the mountain destinations to the west than the old airport was.

But obviously there was nowhere else to put it.

Everything but the baggage system.