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Old May 5, 2022 | 3:30 pm
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Originally Posted by pstm91
Feel free to move this to the "New York" thread if you feel it belongs there. I am looking at UA 188 EWR-JNB, and then UA 187 JNB-EWR. I noticed that UA187 always arrives to terminal B at Newark, but UA188 always departs from terminal C at Newark (which makes sense). Does the plane operating as 187 then fly somewhere else out of terminal B, or is it moved to terminal C at some point to operate at 188? I guess I'm just confused if it's the same plane or not and why they would land at B?
This is a common behavior at EWR for international flights. Arriving at B to use B gates / customs and immigration and then moving the plane to C for next departure which could be anywhere. Not common for the same physical plane to be used in both directions, not generally operational / utilization efficient.
And Yes there is a C customs but there appears to be issues on gate availability and capacity balancing of the custom / immigration areas.
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