I’m surprised they’re renovating T5 considering it’s the newest terminal at JFK.
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Its been looking a bit tired for a few years now…20 years is a lot of wear and tear for a busy airport terminal.
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It’s nice to know the days of NYC airport terminals going four decades without receiving paxex upgrades are over.
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Newark needs more love. The PA is moving at a glacial pace with the EWR renovations. JFK and LGA have been moving relatively quickly with a lot of noticeable progress.
Also, here’s the PANYNJ announcement regarding the T5 renovation:
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Thank you for this link! At least the new Terminal B at EWR is entering its design phase now. Improvements are planned at Terminal C to keep it viable for a few years (or decades) until they can work up the balls to replace it.
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Flew out of T5 yesterday, however due to some legendary Van Wyck traffic I had no time to explore the terminal. Managed to get a picture in the atrium though. They moved the promotional sign and some construction walls are up where some new retail/dining will go.
Fortunately, I managed to get some pretty good views from the air! Enjoy a little aerial construction update of sorts. The key stuff I noticed is that more apron pouring has been going on for T1, and the gap between T5 and T6 appears complete! I think for both these terminals, a lot of work is moving to the interior, with exterior work mostly consigned to applying finishing materials and completing the roadways.
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T1 and T6 are coming along nicely. They’ll likely open on time at the rate they’re going with construction. Also, T1 is huge. I’m sure you can fit all of Old T1 into New T1 and have room to spare.
Turns out, you can. Old T1 is 1.5 million square feet. The new T1 is 2.4.
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Here’s some news and photos I found regarding T6:
The JFK T6 developers have announced that Frontier Airlines is joining several other carriers serving T6 which also includes:
- Air Canada
- Aer Lingus
- ANA
- Austrian Airlines
- Brussels Airlines
- Cathay Pacific
- Condor
- JetBlue Airways
- Kuwait Airways
- Lufthansa
- Norse
- SWISS
Interior renders of the gate area were featured in a thank you message for followers:
Construction Progress from the last few weeks:
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Looks like the indoor portion of the T5/T6 connector is beginning construction shortly, which will shrink the holdroom size of Gate 30. Additionally, the big gate renumbering is occurring next month.
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This is really big news, where did you find this out? Something as big as renumbering the terminals would most likely be plastered all over the news so people are aware.
Nevermind, it’s just gates being renumbered. Not the actual renaming of Terminals.
I wonder if the entire airport’s going to have their gates renumbered since T5 is going to become 501-530. Example: T4 becoming 401-441 If it’s permanent it will be extremely odd if only T5/T6 will have such an unusual numbering scheme or will it only be just for the duration of T6’s construction and things go back to normal.
Gate renumbering, not terminal renumbering.
It does make perfect sense for all the T5 gates to be 5xx.
On the other hand, aren’t they talking about renaming the terminals in a few years? I thought when T1 opens, they were planning to rename them to “Terminal A”, “Terminal B”, C, etc.? Am mis-remembering that? If they are going to do that, and relatively soon, then renumbering the T5 gates that way doesn’t make as much sense.
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An earlier article from November claimed the entire airport will be renumbered this way. It would be strange if this becomes permanent, considering the Port’s plans to rename the terminals in a letter format.
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It was mentioned at one point they are planning rename the entire airport’s terminals when T6 and T1 are finished and going to a letter format would make this move extremely strange. If they’re going to rename the terminals they should of just started preparing and just call T5 gates D1-30 or whatever they were going to call them. It’d save them the effort of having to re-number the gates again when they rename everything. Then again the Port Authority isn’t known for making rational decisions.
Ah. So I’m not imagining it.
Yeah, exactly. Why do it twice in the space of just a few years?
It would make sense to switch to letters. I think other airports have done that. It avoids the possibility of people wondering “old terminal 4 or new terminal 4?”, which could create really awful confusion (and a lot of missed flights) for a while.
Took a cab from JFK to Manhattan. Why is there so much trash on the highways? I know there is construction, but the amount of garbage was unreal. Also, it looks like medians are never taken care of. Full of weeds and overgrown grass. Also, when was the road paved? It was just sad to see the conditions. Hopefully, this gets fixed with the opening of the new Terminals
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Too much to maintain, too little funding
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Work has been ongoing to prep Terminal 5 for the start of construction of its portion of the new egress roadway. I’m quite looking forward to this step of construction!
Btw, I get a lot of my stuff here from Brendan Smith on LinkedIn. I believe he’s an engineer on the project who shares these updates publically!
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The JFK Airport-related linkedin pages are often a treasure trove of high-quality updates and pictures of progress. It’d be nice if they didn’t hide the updates behind linkedin pages but it is what it is.
They’re also working on that curved wall that’s in front of the walkway to the AirTrain.
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Those corrugated jetbridges immediately date this. At least go with smooth sided ones.
Also, solar panel infrastructure is being installed on T1’s roof.
And here’s some recent work on the terminal overall:
On the T6 side, they announced K2, Inc. will supply security screening equipment for the terminal. Per the T6 LinkedIn, here is what the equipment might comprise of:
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