The newest concourse at Louis Armstrong airport, D, opened on December 23, 1996 and houses a Delta Air Lines Sky Club, the sole such airline club remaining at Armstrong.  A six-gate rotunda, designed by Sizeler Thompson Brown, has been built on the end of the concourse.  Concourse D has 12 operating Gates: D1 - D12. Delta Air Lines (Gates D2, D4, D6, D8, D10, D12), United Airlines (Gates D1, D3, D5, D7, D9, D11), and Air Canada Express (Gate D7) operate out of this concourse.

Jazz Fest Founder Allison Miner was born on September 23, 1949.  When the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival first began [the second incarnation of it] in 1969, it was radical. Here in the South, still reeling from the Civil Rights movement and race integration, the festivals’ founders — Quint Davis, George Wein, and Allison Miner — created a safe space for New Orleanians to come together, to hear each others’ music and to party — together.  Eve Abrams brings us this profile of Allison Miner, a titan in New Orleans music, and the only person with a Jazz Fest stage named for her: For many people, like me, Allison Miner was a name attached to the stage inside the grandstand where musicians talk more than play. But then I started meeting people like Grant Morris, who became close with Miner when she managed Professor Longhair for most of the 1980’s. Morris calls Allison, "one of the most important people in music history, in the history of people who aren’t musicians."...Allison managed the Wild Magnolias, Rebirth Brass Band, Steve Masakowsi, and most infamously, Professor Longhair. She was part nurturing mother, part hard-nosed business woman, and there was no line between the musician and herself. They were like family...Allison Miner died at age 46 of bone marrow cancer. By that time, she’d started the Jazz and Heritage Archive, helped launch WWOZ, and ensured that the Jazz Festival would be a non-profit and part of a foundation. After she died [on December 23, 1995], the Music and Heritage stage was named in her honor. It’s still the only Jazz Festival stage named for someone.  Read the entire beautiful tribute to Allison Miner at WWNO.org  By Eve Abrams, WWNO