It's NHL All-Star week, and RDU Airport's handsome new terminal is wide open

John Brantley, the airport director, shuddered at the idea that thousands of hockey fans, corporate types and media could fly into RDU this week, arriving in a big new terminal that looked finished but was half empty.

So it was worth an extra half-million dollars, he says, to get the $570 million Terminal 2 completed and opened four weeks ahead of schedule -- in time for the 2011 NHL All-Star Weekend.

So far, the new terminal designed by Denver architect Curt Fentress gets rave reviews from travelers and Triangle residents.

For visitors flying into RDU for the NHL All-Star Weekend events, here's how to find your way around Raleigh. And here's a schedule of events.

Let us know what you need while you're here.