Newark Liberty International Airport
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Newark Liberty International Airport
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IATA: EWRICAO: KEWRFAA LID: EWRWMO: 72502
Synopsis
Air terminal type Public
Owner Newark and Elizabeth, New Jersey
Operator Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
Serves New York metropolitan zone, and Philadelphia metropolitan territory
Location Newark and Elizabeth, New Jersey, U.S.
Center point for
FedEx Express
Joined Airlines
Center city for
Outskirts Airlines
Height AMSL 17.4 ft/5 m
Coordinates 40°41′33″N 074°10′07″WCoordinates: 40°41′33″N 074°10′07″W
Website newarkairport.com
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Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
4L/22R 11,000 3,353 Asphalt/Concrete
4R/22L 10,000 3,048 Asphalt
11/29 6,726 2,050 Asphalt
Helipads
Number Length Surface
ft m
H1 54 16 Asphalt
Measurements (2019)
Airplane operations[1] 446,320
Travelers (ACI)[1] 46,336,452
Complete freight and mail (short tons)[1] 882,103
Source: Port Authority of New York and New Jersey[1] FAA[2]
Newark Liberty International Airport (IATA: EWR, ICAO: KEWR, FAA LID: EWR), initially Newark Metropolitan Airport and later Newark International Airport, is a worldwide air terminal riding the limit between the urban communities of Newark and Elizabeth in Essex County and Union County, New Jersey. It is one of the significant air terminals of the New York metropolitan area.[3] The air terminal is as of now claimed together by the urban communities of Elizabeth and Newark and rented to and worked by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.[4]
Newark Airport is found 3 miles (4.8 km) south of Downtown Newark, and 9 miles (14 km) west-southwest of the ward of Manhattan. It is one of three significant air terminals serving the New York metropolitan territory; the others are John F. Kennedy International Airport and LaGuardia Airport, which are additionally worked by the Port Authority.
Sandwiched between Interstate 95 and Interstate 78 (the two parts of the New Jersey Turnpike), just as U.S. Highways 1 and 9, the air terminal handles more flights (however not the same number of travelers) than John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK), in spite of being 40 percent of JFK's property size. The City of Newark fabricated the air terminal on 68 sections of land (28 ha) of marshland in 1928 and the Army Air Corps worked the office during World War II. After the Port Authority took it over in 1948, an instrument runway, a terminal structure, a control tower and an air load focus were included. The air terminal's unique 1935 focal terminal structure is a National Historic Landmark. EWR utilizes more than 24,000 people.[5]
In 2017, EWR was the 6th busiest air terminal in the United States by global traveler traffic and fifteenth busiest air terminal in the nation. It served 43,393,499 travelers in 2017, which made EWR the forty-third busiest air terminal on the planet by traveler traffic. In 2019, the air terminal saw 46,336,452 travelers, the most in its history.
Newark serves 50 bearers and is the third-biggest center for United Airlines, the air terminal's biggest occupant (working in every one of the three of Newark's terminals),[6] and FedEx Express, its second-biggest inhabitant (working in three structures on 2,000,000 square feet of air terminal property).[7] During the year time frame finishing off with July 2014, over 68% of all travelers at the air terminal were conveyed by United Airlines.[8]
Substance
1 History
1.1 Early years
1.2 Late twentieth century
1.3 21st century
2 Facilities
2.1 Runways
3 Terminals
3.1 Terminals An and B
3.2 Terminal C
3.3 More Information on the Terminals
4 Ground transportation
4.1 Train
4.2 Bus
4.3 Road
5 Airlines and goals
5.1 Passenger
5.2 Cargo
6 Statistics
6.1 Top goals
6.2 Airline piece of the pie
6.3 Annual traffic
7 Airport data
7.1 Accommodations
8 Accidents and episodes
9 See moreover
10 Notes
11 References
12 External connections
History
Early years
Albert Einstein at Newark Airport in April 1939.
Newark Metropolitan Airport opened October 1, 1928 on 68 sections of land (28 ha) of recovered land along the Passaic River,[5] the main significant air terminal serving travelers in the New York metro area.[9] The Art Deco style Newark Metropolitan Airport Administration Building, enhanced with wall paintings by Arshile Gorky,[10] was worked in 1934 and devoted by Amelia Earhart in 1935.[11] It filled in as the terminal until the opening of the North Terminal in 1953. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979 and is presently an exhibition hall and Port Authority Police base camp.
Newark was the busiest business air terminal on the planet until LaGuardia Airport opened in December 1939; the March 1939 Official Aviation Guide shows 61 weekday takeoffs on five aircrafts, however by mid-1940 traveler carriers had all left Newark.[12][13]
During World War II the field was shut to business flight while it was taken over by the United States Army for coordinations activities. In 1945 caught German airplane brought from Europe on HMS Reaper for assessment under Operation Lusty were off-stacked at Newark AAF and afterward flown or transported to Freeman Field, Indiana or Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland. The aircrafts came back to Newark in February 1946. In 1948, the city of Newark rented the air terminal to the Port of New York Authority (presently the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey). As a feature of the arrangement, the Port Authority assumed operational responsibility for the air terminal and started putting intensely in capital upgrades, including new overhangs, another terminal and runway 4/22.
The February 1947 C&GS chart shows 5,940-foot (1,811 m) runway 1, 7,900-foot (2,408 m) runway 6 and 7,100-foot (2,164 m) runway 10.
On December 16, 1951 a Miami Airlines C-46 headed for Tampa lost a chamber on departure from runway 28 and smashed in Elizabeth killing 56.[14] On January 22, 1952 an American Airlines CV-240 slammed in Elizabeth, while on way to deal with runway 6 killing each of the 23 on board and seven on the ground.[15] On February 11, 1952 a National DC-6 smashed in Elizabeth after departure from runway 24, killing 29 of 63 ready and four on the ground.[16][17] Inevitably, the air terminal was shut for certain months; carrier traffic continued later in the year, yet the air terminal's proceeded with disagreeability and the New York region's developing air traffic prompted looks for new air terminal locales. A proposition to fabricate another air terminal at what is currently the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge was vanquished by nearby resistance.
The April 1957 Official Airline Guide demonstrated 144 weekday traveler fixed-wing takeoffs from Newark: 40 Eastern, 19 Capital, 16 American, 14 United, 14 Mohawk, 13 Allegheny, 11 TWA, 8 National, 5 Delta and 4 Braniff. National had a constant to Miami, Eastern had nonstops to Miami, New Orleans and Houston, Braniff had a relentless DC-7C to Dallas and TWA flew relentless to St Louis; no different nonstops to focuses west of St. Louis and no global nonstops.[18] (Eastern began a relentless to Montreal in 1958, most likely Newark's initially booked universal constant since 1939, however Eastern had nonstops to San Juan in 1951.) Jet carriers showed up in 1961. In 1964, American and TWA began flying relentless to California, in spite of the fact that Newark's longest runway was 7,000 ft (2,100 m) until 1970. TWA's 707 relentless to Heathrow in 1978 was presumably Newark's first trans-Atlantic constant.
Late twentieth century
Through the mid 1970s, Newark had a solitary terminal structure situated on the north side of the field, by what is currently Interstate 78.[19] In the 1970s the air terminal became Newark International Airport. Present Terminals An and B opened in 1973, albeit some contract and universal flights requiring customs leeway stayed at the North Terminal. The principle working of Terminal C was finished simultaneously, however just metal surrounding work was finished for the terminal's satellites. It lay lethargic until the mid-1980s, when for a short time the west third of the terminal was prepared for universal appearances and utilized for certain People Express cross-country flights. Terminal C was at last finished and opened in June 1988.
Underutilized during the 1970s, Newark extended significantly during the 1980s. Individuals Express hit an arrangement with the Port Authority to utilize the North Terminal as its air terminal and corporate office in 1981 and started activities at Newark that April. It developed rapidly, expanding Newark's traffic through the 1980s.[20] Virgin Atlantic started administration among Newark and London in 1984, testing JFK's status as New York's worldwide entryway (however Virgin Atlantic currently has a larger number of trips at JFK than at Newark). Government Express (presently known as FedEx Express) opened its second center at the air terminal in 1986.[7] When People Express converged into Continental in 1987, activities (counting corporate office tasks) at the North Terminal were decreased and the structure was obliterated to clear a path for payload offices in the mid 1990s. This merger began Continental's and later United Airlines', predominance at Newark Airport.
In late 1996 the monorail opened, interfacing the three terminals, the flood parking garages and carports, and the rental vehicle offices. Another International Arrivals Facility likewise opened in Terminal B that year.[9] The monorail was extended to the new Newark Airport train station on Amtrak's Northeast Corridor line in 2001 and was renamed AirTrain Newark.
21st century
A July 2006 photo of United Airlines Flight 93's takeoff door, A17. Following the 9/11 assaults, American banners flew over the doors of the captured flights.
After the commandeering and crash of
