Posted on November 19, 2025
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey unveiled a 10-year capital development proposal with $20.7 billion in airport projects, including reconstructing a terminal at both New York LaGuardia (LGA) and Newark Liberty International (EWR) airports.
The proposal for capital projects, now open to public comment, is a follow-up to the Port Authority’s 2017-25 capital plan that yielded a series of airport revamps. These include soon-to-open Terminals 1 and 6 at New York John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK), a new Terminal A at EWR and rebuilds of two terminals at LGA. The projects were completed via public-private partnerships (PPP) in which the Port Authority forged long-term lease agreements with private consortiums charged with raising money, overseeing construction and managing completed facilities.
The Port Authority controls JFK, LGA and EWR.
Under the proposed 2026-35 plan, the Port Authority would establish a PPP to design and rebuild EWR Terminal B, which handles international flights. The plan also calls for adding gates to Terminal A, which opened in 2023 and handles domestic flights, and adding a third major taxiway. United Airlines, which has a hub at EWR, operates primarily out of Terminal C.
The new $3.5 billion EWR automated people mover (APM) AirTrain, on which construction started last month, is also included in the plan. The 2.5-mi. AirTrain, slated to open in 2030, will replace the airport’s current APM, which started operations in 1996. The new system will increase capacity to 50,000 daily riders, up from the current APM’s capacity of 33,000 daily riders.
The capital plan additionally includes a proposal to redesign and revamp JFK’s APM AirTrain, “with state-of-the-art new train cars to double capacity, alongside new world-class stations,” according to the Port Authority.
The agency said it will be “finishing the job” upgrading LGA, where $8 billion was invested through PPPs on reconstructing Terminals B and C, projects that have garnered widespread praise. The new plan “calls for replacing the 85-year-old Terminal A to meet demand and continued passenger growth while respecting the building rotunda’s landmark status,” the Port Authority said, describing the LGA Terminal A project as a “top-to-bottom” rebuild. Also proposed is a pedestrian connector between Terminals B and C.
The agency has acknowledged how poorly passengers perceived its airports prior to the modernization projects of recent years. Before the “wholesale world-class rebuild” of Terminals B and C, LGA was “the nation’s worst airport,” the Port Authority said.
“Over the next 10 years, the agency will continue to deliver on its promise to transform its airports from worst to first,” the Port Authority stated, adding that JFK, LGA and EWR “have been transformed from experiences to be endured into destinations.”
Public comments on the Port Authority’s 2026-35 capital plan are due by Dec. 15.
