Airport Check-in: Boston dedicates 9/11 memorial

— -- The Massachusetts Port Authority, which runs Boston Logan, dedicated the Boston Logan International Airport 9/11 Memorial last week, The Place of Remembrance.

Located on a 2.5-acre site near Terminal A, the memorial honors the passengers and crews of American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175, which departed Logan Airport for Los Angeles but were flown into the North and South Towers of the World Trade Center. "The memorial also commemorates the dedication of the Logan Airport community and the contribution they made in restoring the aviation system to full operation," the Port Authority said in a statement.

The names of the 147 victims are inscribed in an 11-foot-tall glass sculpture at the center of the complex. The sculpture was designed by Moskow Linn Architects of Boston.

DETROIT

New terminal to open Wednesday

After three years of construction, Detroit Metro's North Terminal will make its debut Wednesday and serve 11 commercial airlines.

The $431 million terminal replaces the 50-year-old Smith Terminal. It contains two security checkpoints and 26 gates, including four that are connected to Customs. The airlines that will operate from the new terminal include Air Canada, American Airlines, AirTran, Frontier, Lufthansa, Royal Jordanian Airlines, Southwest, Spirit, United, US Airways, USA 3000 and charter airlines.

Northwest and its SkyTeam alliance partners — AeroMexico, Air France, Continental, Delta and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines — will remain in the McNamara Terminal.

The North Terminal will also have 44,000 square feet of concessions. Its lineup includes Champps Restaurant and Bar, Max & Erma's, T.G.I. Friday's, Ruby Tuesday, Borders, Brookstone and XpressSpa.

Parts of the Smith Terminal will be demolished immediately. But airport officials are hoping to rent the main check-in area and other parts of the terminal for film production. "We haven't had to market ourselves," says spokesman Scott Wintner, citing Michigan's recently introduced financial incentives aimed at recruiting filmmakers to the state. "The phone's been ringing off the hook (from film companies)."