Terminal 1 at JFK Airport
Mainstay is passenger-cargo
AIRPORT VOICE, MAY 2020 15
Terminal One or TOGA at JFK is
one of the busiest terminals at JFK
Airport.
Before the Covid crisis, it had the
distinction of being the exclusive international
terminal with flights and
passengers from all continents. Since
the bottom fell out of passenger travel
, TOGA has benefitted and remained
strong with the influx of passengercargo
shipments from overseas.
Like Terminal 4, most of the cargo
is Personal Protection Equipment
(PPE) of masks, protective gowns and
other supplies for the safety and protection
of essential workers and the
general public.
On most days there are a minimum
of 6 and often 8 cargo flights
with a couple of repatriation flights.
These are passenger flights allowed
by the U.S, government to carry foreigners
home to their country left
here due to unusual circumstances.
Each cargo flight can carry about 40
tons of assorted goods. If one were to
try to extrapolate and guess the number
of surgical masks it could total a
few million per flight.
Multiple that daily and it is a remarkable
number of life saving products
coming in daily mainly from
China.
On the passenger-cargo side, Korean
Air and Air China are the most
often seen with as many as 5 Air
China flights a day.
Terminal Director of Operations
Steve Rowland has had to make some
changes due to Covid. He had divided
his staff into Team A and Team B
which alternate to prevent the virus
from potentially affecting the entire
staff if working together.
Notwithstanding the crisis mode
that all terminals are in to figure out
the pathway to the future, T1 is completing
construction of it’s Terminal
Operations Center (TOC) which will
provide more efficiency to the terminal
operations and communication
with its control tower.
Rowland is proud of his team, and
all the dnata, Airways and Allied security
workers who put themselves in
potential harms way by being essential
to the ground handling, hygiene
and safety of the terminal.
Both sides of Terminal 1 at JFK are loaded with passenger-only cargo flights helping to
keep the medical products supply line strong.
Progress doesn't stop. TOGA Director of Operations Steve Rowland stands with equipment
for final touches to the new Terminal Operations Center soon to be operational.
Crew of dnata ground handlers manually off-load 2000 cartons of PPE.
Interior of passenger jet converted to cargo for importing KN95 masks Air China passenger-cargo plane heading to be unloaded by dnata at T1, JFK.