Logan Airport Capital Projects

whighlander said:
Mass-- Massport New Capital Budget has a line for Term C by others
Jet Blue in making Logan into a "Hub" has plans for a lot more work on Term C which has essentially become the Jet Blue Terminal

Overall in the next decade you will see a "Neo/Nuevo Logan"
starting with the current B-C Connector
and proceeding through the New International Terminal project,
the connector to the T
and the Terminal to Terminal people mover
possibly the long discussed central check-in
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The upcoming B to C connector is going to be really nice if it turns out like the renders Massport has shown. On the level of the C to E connector, but with higher ceilings which will be a nice touch. By the end of the year, JetBlue will pretty much have all of Terminal C to themselves once Alaska and Sun Country move over to B. Cape Air will be the only other carrier over there. It'll be interesting to what ends up happening. I would think they would wait to start anything until at least Q4 2021 to allow the B to C connector to be completed, the first phase of the terminal E expansion to be complete and the large roadway and curbside project to be completed.
 
mass88 said:
The upcoming B to C connector is going to be really nice if it turns out like the renders Massport has shown. On the level of the C to E connector, but with higher ceilings which will be a nice touch. By the end of the year, JetBlue will pretty much have all of Terminal C to themselves once Alaska and Sun Country move over to B. Cape Air will be the only other carrier over there. It'll be interesting to what ends up happening. I would think they would wait to start anything until at least Q4 2021 to allow the B to C connector to be completed, the first phase of the terminal E expansion to be complete and the large roadway and curbside project to be completed.
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I'd love to ask someone behind the scenes at the JetBlue operation how happy they are with their operations space on ground level in C. I think that's what will really drive redoing the piers or sticking with them.
 
I can't help but be depressed by 8-10 years of construction after which time more construction (Terminal C piers, Blue Line direct connection to airport etc.) will need to be done. We are basically looking at major airport construction until at least 2035. Sobering thought.
 
When you grow an average of 6% a year, you double every 12. There's no getting away from continuous construction.

The shame of being unable to use PFCs on Transit is that we can't use them on "big picture" projects like NSRL, Red-Blue, or other systemic fixes
 
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Is there a plan to redo the piers at Terminal C? It seems a little outdated and jetBlue could really add about 3-6 more gates per pier if they expanded them correctly.
 
Massachoicetts said:
Is there a plan to redo the piers at Terminal C? It seems a little outdated and jetBlue could really add about 3-6 more gates per pier if they expanded them correctly.
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A of right now, no. This will be a tricky project given the sheer size of their operation. What's interesting is that as the terminal B work is done, the piers in terminal C are the most glaring area that needs to be upgraded - much higher ceilings, more windows, etc.
 
BosDevelop said:
I can't help but be depressed by 8-10 years of construction after which time more construction (Terminal C piers, Blue Line direct connection to airport etc.) will need to be done. We are basically looking at major airport construction until at least 2035. Sobering thought.
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We're looking at major airport construction forever, as we should be. Airports should always be working on something.
 
Not that it matters much, but does anyone know why we have Terminals A,B,C and E, with no terminal D? Logic would place terminal D where C is now, if terminal B was split in half, with the other half being terminal C. I was wondering if that was the original plan. (?)
 
Equilibria said:
We're looking at major airport construction forever, as we should be. Airports should always be working on something.
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There is a difference between continuously upgrading/improving an airport and having 20 odd years in a row of major infrastructure construction that significantly impacts airport access.
 
I didn't see the Terminal E to Blue Line connector on the Logan Forward site. Anybody else?
 
lapradetom said:
Not that it matters much, but does anyone know why we have Terminals A,B,C and E, with no terminal D? Logic would place terminal D where C is now, if terminal B was split in half, with the other half being terminal C. I was wondering if that was the original plan. (?)
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Seems they just got merged into Terminal C. According to the article below, Terminal E was going to be renamed Terminal D and that just... didn't happen?

https://web.archive.org/web/2006030.../business/ticker/2006/02/attention_logan.html
 
atlantaden said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDTQ5ANKVjo&app=desktop

MassPort video showing upcoming capital projects at Logan.
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I don't understand why Terminal C will still have such sucky curb space when all this is done.

On a linear-foot-of-curb per passenger basis, Terminal C is terrible. How can it be that Boston's largest airline has the smallest curb?

Why not at least add some dropoff space along the new B-to-C connector, and cover it with a canopy.

I'm sure I'm not alone in sometimes wanting to tell my ride "just let me off here, and I'll walk the rest of the way" and getting this urge all the way back where the old tower is today.
 
Arlington said:
I don't understand why Terminal C will still have such sucky curb space when all this is done.

On a linear-foot-of-curb per passenger basis, Terminal C is terrible. How can it be that Boston's largest airline has the smallest curb?

Why not at least add some dropoff space along the new B-to-C connector, and cover it with a canopy.

I'm sure I'm not alone in sometimes wanting to tell my ride "just let me off here, and I'll walk the rest of the way" and getting this urge all the way back where the old tower is today.
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The project adds curb space by extending the deck out from the terminal and by reclaiming space from TNC pickup, not by lengthening the deck.
 
lapradetom said:
Not that it matters much, but does anyone know why we have Terminals A,B,C and E, with no terminal D? Logic would place terminal D where C is now, if terminal B was split in half, with the other half being terminal C. I was wondering if that was the original plan. (?)
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There used to be a terminal D. It was kind of funky, smallish, and in the way when they decided to expand terminal C. Although it might seem to have made sense to rename Terminal E at that juncture, or to have done as you've suggested with the two sections of B, that might have ultimately been too confusing for passengers. Plus, who knows, maybe we'll get a terminal D replacement someday, just like we'll be getting a new A-line any day now (or at least we can't re-label the others in case Watertown service ever returns).
 
HenryAlan said:
There used to be a terminal D. It was kind of funky, smallish, and in the way when they decided to expand terminal C. Although it might seem to have made sense to rename Terminal E at that juncture, or to have done as you've suggested with the two sections of B, that might have ultimately been too confusing for passengers. Plus, who knows, maybe we'll get a terminal D replacement someday, just like we'll be getting a new A-line any day now (or at least we can't re-label the others in case Watertown service ever returns).
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Massport's original plan when they eliminated the Terminal D name was to rename Terminal E to Terminal D. They decided not to because members of the public complained that they'd be confused.
 
Equilibria said:
Massport's original plan when they eliminated the Terminal D name was to rename Terminal E to Terminal D. They decided not to because members of the public complained that they'd be confused.
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So, now there are three gates at the far end of C where it bumps up to E, that are named E1/C7, E2/C6, E3/C5! So, I guess if Jet Blue is using one of those gates, they're C gates, if International Flag Carriers are using those gates, they're E gates. Simple! ;)

http://massport.com/media/3095/e-printable-map.pdf
 
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