Akron-Canton Airport has seen increasing air traffic since the mid-1990s. But in the past two years, it’s faced new challenges with one airline cutting service, and others shifting some flights to Cleveland Hopkins Airport to fill the void left when United Airlines closed its hub. In the third part in our series, Grounded, WKSU's Kabir Bhatia takes a look at how Akron-Canton actually has plans to expand and thrive over the next 20 years. The dated, Spartan boarding areas for Delta and American Airlines at Akron-Canton Airport will soon be a thing of the past. Built in the early 1960s , they are slated to be replaced under a new 20-year, $240 million master plan announced in February. The news came just a few months after Southwest announced it would cut back to just three flights a day from Akron-Canton, all to their hub in Atlanta. Southwest inherited its gates at Akron-Canton through a merger with AirTran in 2010, and the carrier has slowly shifted its flights toward Cleveland