UCLAX From United States of America, joined May 2003, 179 posts, RR: 0 Posted (8 years 10 months 2 weeks 8 hours ago) and read 1927 times:
Hello,
I recall seeing pictures of Terminal 7 prior to its renovation in the early 90s and seeing that the terminal end of the jetways could be raised or lowered for departing or arriving passengers, respectively, a rather unusual design. I was there last year and found that most are now traditional jetways that only rise and lower at the aircraft end, to accommodate aircraft height. Are there any gates that still use the original system of lowering the jetway at the terminal building to get arriving passengers to passport control and raising it again to allow passengers to board the aircraft from the departures level?
Thanks!
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Airfrancejfk From United States of America, joined Jan 2002, 473 posts, RR: 0 Reply 1, posted (8 years 10 months 2 weeks 6 hours ago) and read 1882 times:
Gate 7, Terminal 1 JFK airport, lowers and raises for arrivals and departures.
Rjpieces From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 2, posted (8 years 10 months 1 week 6 days 20 hours ago) and read 1781 times:
Don't most gates in (modern)international terminals just have two levels now? One level leads to the departure concourses and the other to the level below departures w/customs etc?
Mir From United States of America, joined Jan 2004, 19690 posts, RR: 56 Reply 3, posted (8 years 10 months 1 week 6 days 17 hours ago) and read 1705 times:
All of Terminal 7's international gates do this, I think. I know that Terminal 1's do. You can't really tell though as you're walking through it.
Don't most gates in (modern)international terminals just have two levels now? One level leads to the departure concourses and the other to the level below departures w/customs etc?
Many (but most goes too far) do that, yes. Though, the situation at Terminal 7 and Terminal 1 is not the norm. Most often, there will be two corridors to the jetbridge, one that comes from the departures level and one that goes to arrivals, and the actual jetbridge itself remains the same whether arriving or departing. Or some variation on that, like in Terminal 4 at JFK, where you have a spiral ramp going down from the departures level to the jetbridge, which is at the arrivals level.
Terminal 1, with the jetbridge to the JAL 744 connected to the arrivals level. The one behind it to the World MD11 is connected to the departures level.
A photo of Terminal 7, and on the right side you can see two gates which can go to either departures or arrivals. Right now they are in departures mode - the connector for the arrivals mode is visible underneath. I'm not sure how many gates at Terminal 7 do this, but I'm pretty sure the low number gates (up to about 5) do it.
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Rjpieces From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 4, posted (8 years 10 months 1 week 6 days 17 hours ago) and read 1691 times:
Thanks for the info! That's really cool (T1 and T7). Is it easy to move the gates from departure level to arrival level? I assume they can move it while a plane is docked?
UCLAX From United States of America, joined May 2003, 179 posts, RR: 0 Reply 5, posted (8 years 10 months 1 week 6 days 14 hours ago) and read 1621 times:
Thanks for the info and the well-chosen pictures! With the renovation, it's less apparent from the outside that some in Terminal 7 do still rise and lower, and the gentle descent angle of the jetway explains why there isn't much of a descent by ramp when you do enter the terminal building from the jetway when arriving on international flights.
Thanks again,
Bill
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Cory6188 From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 2686 posts, RR: 6 Reply 6, posted (8 years 10 months 1 week 6 days 14 hours ago) and read 1593 times:
At EWR, in CO's C-3 concourse where all of the international flights arrive, there is only one traditional jetway at each gate. For departing pax, it is the same as any other gate. However, for international arriving pax, the terminal area is roped off and pax are forced to go up an escalator or elevator to a glass walkway above the concourse that leads to customs and immigration. A smart design, in my opinion.
SafetyDude From United States of America, joined Sep 2001, 3795 posts, RR: 16 Reply 7, posted (8 years 10 months 1 week 6 days 13 hours ago) and read 1555 times:
Sorry to ruin all of your fun, but I have never heard of multi-level jetways, especially at JFK.
T1 and T7 just have standard jetways and at the end there is a split (corridor), where one ramp goes up to the terminal, while the other goes down to customs.
Jayhup From United States of America, joined Jan 2002, 440 posts, RR: 0 Reply 8, posted (8 years 10 months 1 week 6 days 13 hours ago) and read 1538 times:
I can GUARUNTEE that the multi level bridges exist at T7.
Would you like to hear my story about the morning I meet the 001 (Concorde 001 to be exact) and forgot to lower the bridge so the pax could go to customs?
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That's really cool (T1 and T7). Is it easy to move the gates from departure level to arrival level? I assume they can move it while a plane is docked?
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