Newark airport aims to ease security lines

The $325 million renovation project at Newark Liberty International Airport's Terminal B is expected to continue for more than two years, but improvements that will ease overcrowding on passenger security-check lines during peak travel times will be completed much sooner.
An addition to the passageway that leads from the concourse to the B-1 gate area is expected to open this month, and expanded B-2 and B-3 passageways will soon follow, according to a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates the airport.
The expanded hallways will include shops, restaurants and lounges in addition to reconfigured security check points that add more lanes.
The work is part of the largest terminal improvement project at Newark since the $2 billion renovation of Continental Airlines' Terminal C was completed about six years ago.
"Modernizing Terminal B is a critical part of our modernization strategy for Newark," said Anthony Coscia, the Port Authority chairman. "This work is essential to improving customer service, updating security systems and meeting the growing needs of the international and domestic airlines that use this vital terminal."
Congestion has eased a bit on the security-check lines in recent months because of the travel slump, said the Terminal B Manager Patrick A. Bonner Jr.
About 20 international carriers — including Air France, Air India, British Airways, El Al, Lufthansa and Virgin Atlantic — operate from Terminal B. At that facility, the customs office can process 3,000 people per hour, said Roger Prince, senior program manager for the authority.
01/11/09 Richard Neman/NorthJersey.com, USA

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