Newark Airport’s new $3b Terminal A expected to open in November

The new Terminal A at Newark Liberty International Airport will open in November, its main tenant United Airlines told pilots this week in a memo obtained by Airline Weekly. The Chicago-based carrier plans to move into an initial 12 gates in Terminal A on around November 1, its Newark Chief Pilot Captain Fabian Garcia told pilots Wednesday. United will later expand its footprint to 15 gates, or nearly half of the 33 gates in the new $2.7b facility. “Once the [Newark Terminal A] opens, we will increase our schedule accordingly to more than 400 flights” at Newark, Garcia said. United plans to operate narrowbody aircraft, for example Airbus A320 or Boeing 737 Max jets, from the new facility. The new terminal at Newark is one of the more than $13b in airport expansion projects opening across the US in 2022. Others include the new Terminal C at Orlando International Airport that opened on September 20, as well as new facilities at the Boston, Los Angeles, and Seattle-Tacoma airports. And in the New York City area, Terminal A is the latest in a series of multi-billion dollar upgrades to city’s three main airports, JFK, LaGuardia, and Newark. Earlier in September, construction began on the new $9.5b Terminal 1 at JFK, and, in June, Delta Air Lines opened the second phase — a terminal building and one concourse — of its nearly $4b Terminal C redevelopment at LaGuardia.<br/>