Cool piece from T1 about the design process behind the building. Seems to be the first in a series.
I wonder, what percentage of the airport’s flights will move through T1?
Not much info/renderings on how it is coming along.
When the dust settles on all the construction (new T1 opens, T6 opens and T7 closes) - then T1 will account for 23 of the total 142 gates at the airport (16.2%).
I am not sure what % of flights or pax traffic would be at the new T1 - being international they get bigger jets and 24 hrs of flights but also less turns at the gate compared to smaller jet domestic flights that are doing 1 hr gate turns. But I think a reasonable guess would be 20% of passenger traffic would be at T1.
Great info thanks!!
From what we’ve seen, it’s gonna be airy and beautiful, so I was wondering how many people will get this “new-and-improved” JFK experience
I know this won’t happen but I wish they would demolish T8 and start all over again.
Sorry to be a bother, but do you have the corresponding numbers for T6?
That looks like it’ll be a very nice experience as well?
Currently T7 has 12 gates (I believe a couple of them are no longer used) and the new T6 will actually have 10 gates. There’s no net gain of gates, just better and larger ones. So it will only account for 7% of total JFK gates - note T6 is international and will be 24 hours…
I found this info below, with my notes, JFK Terminals by Passenger Volume:
T1 = 10 million (this will go up after the expansion, fyi the knocked down T2 served 8.3 million), peak design capacity of new T1 is 23 million
T4 = 18.5 million (other official sources say 27 million) so I’m not really sure but it’s the biggest terminal, I used to work out of T2 and T4 btw
T5 = 16.2 million
T7 = 3+ million (the new T6 will open in two phases but max out at 4.5 million)
T8 = 13 million
Thank you! 
It seems we really would have needed a much better T4 renovation so that most passengers traveling through JFK get a new-and-improved sleek experience… Unfortunanely, the recently renovated T4 doesn’t seem that sleek judging from online pics (and a bit of memory from when I’ve passed through). 
Agree. T8 renovation is still decent. T4’s renovation is so mediocre.
T4’s concourses need to be replaced with satellite piers linked by an APM. Takes advantage of all that site space without subjecting passengers to treks. If you tunneled under 4L-22R, you could even add capacity with concourses between the runways a-la Hong Kong Airport. Currently working on a design exploring this possibility.
What would be nice, if T4 isn’t getting touched anytime soon, would be for all of JFK to make luggage carts FREE and also make the AirTrain FREE for getting to the airport. Those are things that should be FREE in my opinion. It’s embarrassing the way NYC fleeces visitors. Let them get ripped off eating in Times Square, but not have their first and last impressions of NYC being shaken down for essential things. It’s like our civic leaders have never traveled anywhere else in the world and seen a better way of accommodating passengers.
It’s really just the Port Authority that holds the blame.
It’s actually JFKIAT and Delta’s role to deliver on T4’s capital plans. They scaled down after the pandemic, and continue to slow-walk expansion.
They only really renovated the retail/concessions and a few areas of T8. The rest of the place is dumpy and the additional gate is nothing to write home about. T4/T8 have overall had the least impressive upgrades in terms of scope and features.
Agree 100%. I was just comparing T8’s renovations with T4’s. Considering It’s renovations cost more than a billion, it is so underwhelming. Where did the money go.
Is there any chance they could do a more full renovation of T4 in the short-term future?
The more ambitious $4 billion expansion of Terminal 4, as announced in 2020, was known as Phase 3 to conclude the effort started in the 2010s. The scaled-back expansion, as built, is known as Phase 2.5. This implies, to me, that what was built is interim. Some documents I could find pegged construction on that last 0.5 as starting this year, but nothing I’ve heard externally or internally indicates that will be the case.
I’d reckon we’ll see it by the mid 2030s. I’ve attached a rendering of what was intended to be built in 2020. It’s almost unrecognizable, but I think the view is taken from the post security shopping complex looking west toward Concourse B.
