Terminal 8
Terminal 7 is the only AirTrain station that services a terminal that has received relatively minor changes since the AirTrain opened, although it is slated for demolition after the new Terminal 6 is completed. I am unsure of the plans for this future AirTrain station. The station is located alongside the upper level of the Orange Parking garage. The station has a single island platform for the two-track line with exits towards the Terminal 5/6 end of the platform. Here escalators and an elevator lead down one level to a short bridge across the arrivals roadway o a covered crosswalk at the end of the departure roadway opposite the terminal. The elevators continue down two levels to a crosswalk directly across the arrivals roadway for access to the International Arrivals area for this terminal and baggage claim.
Terminal 7 is the last of the original Jet Age terminals to still be in operation at JFK Airport. It was built for BOAC (now British Airways) and Air Canada in 1970 and was operated by British Airways, making it the only airport on US soil operated by a foreign airline. It was home to British Airways flights on the Concorde (with a gate directly from the ultra-premium Concorde Room). Each end of the distinctive concrete, later painted white roof was home to large logos for British Airways and a United Airlines Tulip (United moved to this terminal in 1991 from Terminal 9). The United tulip was replaced by the Alaska airlines logo after leaving JFK Airport in 2015, and the BA logo removed after British Airways moved to Terminal 8 to join its OneWorld partner American Airlines in Terminal 8 on November 30, 2022.
Photos 1-3: June 11, 2013
