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tBoston Logan Renovates Int’l Terminal
o Accommodate Wide-Body
Jumbo Jets & More Passengers
BY THOMAS J. SMITH
For years, Boston Logan International Airport (BOS)
faced a problem many airports would relish: too much
passenger demand. Now, BOS can accommodate three
of the world’s largest passenger jets simultaneously, and plans
are set to add more gates in a few years. The fix, a $168 million
expansion and renovation to Terminal E, debuted in late January.
“We had to rightsize the terminal, because
the Boston international market has been
exploding for the last four to five years,”
explains Sam Sleiman, director of Capital
Programs for the Massachusetts Port
Authority (Massport). “We are turning down
flights because we don’t have the capacity.
We had to rightsize the gates for what is
already coming to Logan.”
two jet bridges, which allows carriers to board and deplane from
both levels of double-decker aircraft simultaneously.
Inside the terminal, BOS added 96,500 square feet of new
space and renovated 200,000 square feet of existing space.
Given the capacity on incoming and outgoing flights, (each A380800
can carry up to 469 passengers), the holdrooms in Terminal E
needed to be expanded, notes Sleiman. Holdroom capacity grew
by nearly 600 seats for a new total of about 2,430, and every seat
now has an electrical outlet and USB charging port.
The project also added a fourth level to the terminal, above
SAM SLEIMAN
Originally built in 1970, before the dawn of wide-body jets,
Terminal E was constructed with 12 gates for 1.5 million annual
passengers. Lately, however, about 6 million passengers have
been passing through those same 12 gates each year. Traffic grew
from 26 international flights per day in 2006 to 53 per day last year.
“Our facility had a lot of challenges—from the aircraft parking to
the holdrooms,” acknowledges Sleiman. “We had to rightsize the
terminal for today’s operations.”
BOS renovated all 12 of the international terminal’s gates.
Three were modified to service Airbus A380s and Boeing’s largest
planes, which can carry nearly as many passengers, notes
Sleiman. Each of the three new jumbo jet gates is equipped with
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the three gates that were renovated to handle wide-body jumbo
jets. Paid-membership clubrooms for British Airways, Emirates
Airlines and Lufthansa will move into the new area soon, and BOS
will use the space they vacate on the second floor to expand the
terminal’s Customs and Border Protection (CBP) facility.
Using four-story vertical structures called gate piers, passengers in
the fourth-level clubrooms will have access via stairways or escalators
to the jet bridges that connect at the third and second levels of
the terminal. Club members will also be able to access Customs
on the second level and Baggage Claim on the ground floor. The
arrangement not only provides premium service to club members,
it also helps prevent overcrowding in holdrooms, explains Sleiman.
Furthermore, the airport saved space and cost by not duplicating the
seating available in clubrooms with even more seats in the holdrooms.
“The airlines live and die for their club facilities,” he remarks.
“We want to make sure we provided the space for them to
enhance their offer to their customers.
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