Transportation in Newark

Newark Liberty International Airport, originally named Newark Metropolitan Airport and later Newark International Airport, is an international airport which straddles the municipal boundary between Newark and Elizabeth, New Jersey in the United States. The airport is owned by the city of Newark and operated by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. It is about 15mi southwest of Midtown Manhattan (New York City). Newark Airport was the first major airport in the United States and through 2013 was the New York-New Jersey metropolitan area’s busiest in terms of flights.The airports in the New York metropolitan area combine to create the largest airport system in the United States, the second-largest in the world in terms of passenger traffic and largest in the world in terms of total flight operations. In 2014 Newark Airport handled 35.6 million passengers, JFK handled 53.3 million and LaGuardia handled 27 million.Newark is the third-largest hub for United Airlines (after Chicago–O’Hare and Houston–Intercontinental), which is the airport’s largest tenant (operating within all of Terminal C and part of Terminal A). Newark’s second-largest tenant is FedEx Express, whose third-largest cargo hub uses three buildings on two million square feet of airport property. During the 12-month period ending in July 2014, over 68% of all passengers at the airport were carried by United Airlines.