To accommodate continuing record passenger growth at the Port Authority’s three major airports, the Board of Commissioners today moved aggressively forward to invest approximately $4.5 billion in critical transportation projects to rebuild legacy airport facilities to 21 Century, customer-friendly standards and to build new infrastructure such as AirTrain LaGuardia and a new AirTrain Newark that are needed to provide travelers with a convenient, time-saving mass transit option to the airport.
Board actions come with the backdrop of unprecedented, record-breaking growth at the Port Authority’s airports – John F. Kennedy International, Newark Liberty International and LaGuardia. That growth has necessitated quick, decisive action to modernize and upgrade these facilities and related infrastructure, which were built during a bygone aviation era and are not suited to accommodate current and future travel demand and new modern aircraft. At the airports through September, passenger volumes grew by 1.9 percent above the 103.8 million passengers handled in 2018, the previous record high for that nine-month period. This past summer, the three major airports collectively handled more passengers than ever before in the Port Authority’s history.
