The station was opened on November 15, 1968 after the completion of the construction of an additional section of the Cleveland Metro Red Line, which stretches six kilometers west of the West Park station. With the commissioning of the metro station, Cleveland became the first city in the Western Hemisphere to be connected to its main airport via the high-speed underground line [1] . In 1994, the Cleveland International Airport station carried out work on its updating and modernization, the total cost of which amounted to 1.9 million US dollars [1] .
In the late 1990s, the Cleveland Metro company RTA Rapid Transit considered a project for the further development of the Cleveland Metro Red Line to Bereya. [2] The project was presented in several versions, the first of which provided for the construction of a branch from Airport Station via SR 237 and Exhibition Center IX Center in the business center of Bereya. The second of the main options proposed the construction of the extension of the Red Line from the Brookpark station through the IX Center to the business center of Bereya, while this option suggested that in the future, when expanding the territory of the airport complex, it would be necessary to build another stopping point behind the station Airport Despite the great advantages of the proposed projects, they did not receive approval from the Coordinating Agency for the Development of the Territory of Northeast Ohio, which considered that these projects would cost the treasury too expensive and would not be able to attract enough passengers for their payback [3] .
