Newark Airport Is Betting New Munich Operators Will Help It Go From Worst to Best
Photo Credit: Newark Airport security line. Flickr / Bart Everson
Skift Take
It's no secret New York's airports need an overhaul. Port Authority is bringing in the operator of one of the world's best-regarded airports to do it — but structural challenges in the U.S. remain.
New York City regularly is referred to as the greatest city in the world. But its airports? Those are regularly considered among the developed world's worst.
New York's airports reached another milestone in the road to modernize on Monday, when the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey announced it had reached an agreement with Munich Airport International (MAI) to operate and maintain Newark Liberty International's new Terminal One. MAI will also run the terminal's concessions when the $2.7 billion overhaul is completed in 2022.
MAI is a subsidiary of Flughafen München GmbH, the state-owned operator of Munich's Airport. It provides management, training, and operations expertise to airports in projects all over the world, but a spokesperson told Skift the project at Newark
