Newark Liberty gives its newest building two different birthdays. The terminals index says “Terminal A, opened in 2022”; the page for Terminal A itself begins “Opened in 2023, the new Terminal A at EWR is a one million square foot, modern, state-of-the-art terminal.” Both were live in September 2026, two clicks apart.
Terminal A measures one million square feet and holds 5 airlines, per Newark Liberty, yet its opening year appears as 2022 on one page and 2023 on another. The building is not in doubt. Only its birthday is. That disagreement is harmless to a traveler and useful as a warning. The same pages carry the details that decide a connection, a lounge and a security queue, and they are maintained separately enough to contradict each other on a fact neither of them needed to guess.
Three buildings, and which airlines use them
Air Canada, American Airlines, Delta, JetBlue and United are published as the airlines of Terminal A. United’s own building is Terminal C, described by the airport as where “United is connecting the world”. Everything else lands at Terminal B, and its own count of everything else is the second thing the site cannot settle.
| Terminal | What Newark Liberty publishes | Page last modified |
|---|---|---|
| A | Air Canada, American, Delta, JetBlue, United. One million square feet | 30 April 2026 |
| B | “Over 30 airlines” on its own page, “over 25” on the index, including Alaska, Lufthansa, Frontier and SAS | 5 August 2026 |
| C | United, with the Polaris Lounge and United Clubs at C74 and C123 | 11 May 2026 |
The gap between “over 25” and “over 30” is not pedantry when Terminal B is the international building. A traveler checking whether their carrier is at B is reading a number the airport gives two ways on two pages, and the more generous one sits on the page that was updated most recently, in August 2026.
The names the airport does give are worth keeping: Alaska, Lufthansa, Frontier and SAS are all published as Terminal B carriers, which is the shape of the building in one line. It is the international terminal, and the one where a passenger cannot assume a familiar layout from a domestic trip.
The practical rule that survives both versions: if the airline is not Air Canada, American, Delta, JetBlue or United, it is almost certainly Terminal B. United passengers are the ones who have to check, because United is the only carrier published in two buildings at once.
The connection that never leaves security
Being in two terminals creates a problem the airport solves in one sentence: “We offer a post-security shuttle to Terminal C located near Gate 28 for connecting United Airline flights.” A bus that runs inside the sterile area is rare enough at any airport to be worth reading twice.
What it means in practice is that a United connection between Terminal A and Terminal C does not require clearing security again. What is not published is how often that shuttle runs or how long it takes, so the time saved is real and the time needed is a guess.
Everyone else changing terminals uses the AirTrain, which the airport publishes at 3 to 5 minutes between trains and drops to every 15 minutes between 11 p.m. and 5 a.m., serving Terminals B and C only in those hours. That is the landside route, so it costs a second pass through a checkpoint on top of the ride, and it is the same train that reaches the hotel shuttles at P3.
Getting between them costs more at Terminal A
The AirTrain reaches every building except, in a strict sense, the newest one. Newark Liberty states that “the AirTrain does not connect directly to Terminal A” and prices the gap at “a 15 minute walk on a covered pathway or a 5 minute shuttle ride”, which is the longest published connection anywhere inside the airport.
That figure changes how a landside transfer should be planned. Between B and C the train is the whole trip, at the 3 to 5 minutes the airport publishes. To or from A, add up to 15 minutes on foot before the train has moved, and add it again in reverse if the return leg lands in the wrong building.
The free on-airport bus covers part of the same ground: the airport publishes it as running between Terminal A and the Parking A garage, which also houses the rental counters, roughly every 5 minutes, with a live tracker. It is published on the AirTrain page rather than on any terminal page, which is where a traveler would look for it.
CLEAR at Terminal B closes at 7:30 pm
One published detail changes an evening departure. Newark Liberty puts CLEAR at Gates B40-B49 in Terminal B and prints its hours exactly: Sunday to Friday from 4:30 am to 7:30 pm, and Saturday from 4:30 am to 6:00 pm.
On the hours the airport prints, a traveler with a CLEAR membership and a 9 pm flight out of B has no CLEAR lane to use, and on a Saturday the cutoff arrives 90 minutes earlier still. The membership does not stop working; the desk stops being staffed.
Those hours also sit oddly against the airport’s own live security board, which reports a queue in real time regardless of the hour. The board, per the airport, tells you how long the line is at 8 pm; the printed CLEAR hours tell you which line you are allowed to skip, and only one of the two changes with the clock.
Where the lounges are, in square feet
The biggest published number in the whole terminals section belongs to Terminal C. The airport prints the United Club near Gate C123 as a “massive 30,000 sq ft location”, with shower suites at C123 and wellness rooms, alongside a second United Club at C74 and the United Polaris Lounge for long-haul passengers.
The newest building answers with variety rather than size: an American Airlines Admirals Club, a Delta Sky Club and a United Club, with Air Canada passengers directed to the United Club as well. United’s newest club in that building is published as sitting near gate A26.
The international building’s published lounge is a different kind of place: a USO lounge for the military community, listed with snacks, beverages and entertainment. For a terminal with 30 airlines it is a thin list, and it is the one part of the comparison where the international building loses to both neighbours.
- The opening year is published as 2022 on one page and 2023 on another. The building is one million square feet either way.
- Air Canada, American, Delta, JetBlue and United use Terminal A. United also fills Terminal C.
- The international building holds “over 30 airlines” by its own page and “over 25” by the index.
- United connections between A and C use a post-security shuttle near Gate 28, with no published frequency.
- CLEAR at Gates B40-B49 runs 4:30 am to 7:30 pm, and only to 6:00 pm on Saturday.
- The largest published lounge is the 30,000 sq ft United Club near Gate C123.
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Common questions about the Newark terminals
Six answers, each taken from what Newark Liberty published in September 2026.
Three, A, B and C, all carrying passengers. Terminal A is the newest at one million square feet, Terminal B is the international building with over 30 airlines by its own count, and Terminal C is United’s.
Air Canada, American Airlines, Delta, JetBlue and United, as published by the airport. United is the only one of the five that also operates from another Newark terminal, which is Terminal C.
The airport publishes two answers. Its terminals index says Terminal A opened in 2022, while the Terminal A page itself says it opened in 2023. Both were live in September 2026 and both describe the same one million square foot building.
United connections use a post-security shuttle that the airport places near Gate 28, so passengers do not clear security again. No frequency or journey time is published for it. Everyone else uses the AirTrain, which is landside.
From 4:30 am to 7:30 pm Sunday through Friday, and 4:30 am to 6:00 pm on Saturday, serving Gates B40-B49. An evening departure from Terminal B has no CLEAR lane available at all.
Terminal C on published size, with a United Club near Gate C123 the airport calls a massive 30,000 sq ft location, plus a club at C74 and the Polaris Lounge. The newest building lists three airline clubs, and Terminal B lists the USO lounge.
An airport that cannot date its own terminal is still the only source for which gate your CLEAR lane serves.
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