Salt Lake City International Airport Terminal

Twenty-five gates, one big Terminal

This Salt Lake City International Airport Terminal is a single consolidated building, opened in the first phase of the airport’s multi-year rebuild, and it currently runs 25 gates under one roof. All flights for Delta Air Lines, Southwest Airlines, Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, and United Airlines work out of this same Terminal, so there’s no old “Terminal 1 vs Terminal 2” split to think about anymore.

Layout and walking times

Plan on solid walking: the Terminal is long, and a trek from check-in on Level 2 down to a gate at the far end can easily run 10–15 minutes at a normal pace. Security sits centrally behind the main ticketing hall, so everyone—Delta, Southwest, Alaska, American, and United—feeds into the same checkpoint before splitting off toward different gate clusters. With 25 gates in play, it feels more like a stretched-out concourse than multiple separate terminals.

Airlines and check-in

Delta Air Lines dominates the check-in counters across the main ticketing hall, with Southwest, Alaska, American, and United arranged in separate zones along the same level, all clearly signed with each airline’s logo and name. Each carrier runs its own kiosks and bag drops, and first flights of the day for Delta often push around 6:00 a.m., so lines can spike before sunrise. Because everything feeds to the same security, you can pick the shortest queue regardless of airline as long as the line is open to all passengers.

Security and post-checkpoint layout

Once you clear the primary security checkpoint, you emerge into a central plaza area that acts as the hub for the Terminal’s 25 gates. From that central point, walking to a gate in the nearer clusters can take around 5 minutes, with the furthest gates pushing closer to 15 minutes if you hit moving walkways and keep a decent pace. Morning peaks roughly between 5:30 a.m. and 8:00 a.m., with another push around the 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. bank of flights for Delta and the other carriers.

Food, drinks, and shops

The current information set for this Salt Lake City International Airport Terminal doesn’t give a precise list of restaurants or shops by name, but reviews note that the rebuild brought in newer sit-down spots and grab-and-go counters along the main concourse. Expect pricing at least 20–30% higher than downtown Salt Lake City for basics like coffee and sandwiches, and count on gate-adjacent kiosks for bottled water and snacks at most of the 25 gates. Plan to eat or grab coffee after security, since that’s where the majority of options sit.

Lounges and quiet spaces

Specific lounge names are not documented in the provided data set, but the terminal’s current single-building design means any lounge present sits post-security somewhere off the main concourse rather than in a separate pier. Reviews mention that seating fields the usual power outlets and USB ports in blocks of 4–6 seats along the windows near multiple gates, and some passengers report finding relatively calmer seats by walking at least 5–7 gates away from their departure point instead of staying right at the podium.

Connections and timing

Because this Salt Lake City International Airport Terminal runs all 25 gates inside one secured area, domestic-to-domestic connections skip any terminal transfer buses. Typical minimum connection times published by airlines hover around 35–45 minutes, but if your inbound parks at one far end and your outbound departs from the opposite side, you can easily spend 12–15 minutes just walking. If you have a tight 40-minute turn with Delta, Southwest, Alaska, American, or United, head straight from arrival gate to departure gate before hunting for food or coffee.

One last tip

Build a 15–20 minute buffer at Salt Lake City International Airport Terminal: 5–10 minutes for a possible security queue, then another 10–15 minutes to walk from the checkpoint to a far gate among the 25 in use, especially during the early morning and late afternoon flight banks.