The security area at T1 always makes me feel so claustrophobic. It's so so so bad and small and confined ... Even if flying La Premiere, this terminal just brings the mood down, it's such a downgrade from the BA lounges experience at T8 (even if I am absolutely not comparing the onboard product of the 2...)

I can't wait for the new expansion to open next year. It's kinda crazy that it will all be demolished very soon. I should go and pay my respect to some of the lounges there, one last visit and a drink for all the memories... all the bottles of wine at the AF lounge, watching planes taking off during the sunset hours, with the beautiful Jamaica Bay behind, the view from the LH lounge, staring for hours at these planes, standing right next to the nose of KE A380s. So many memories in that cramped terminal. So many airlines I saw for the first time out of T1 windows when I was a teenager, SV, MU ... and oh... all the hours of my life I've lost in that immigration queue... squeezed for hours by all the other Y peasants (only using this word because this how that line use to make me feel) arriving from Europe and Asia... learning from this guy how to say hello in different languages :





Or after passing the horrendous corridor, waiting in line in that modern church looking immigration hall, watching this video on loop for hours of happy migrants, perfect families, children smiling and playing in a beautiful farm, as if I had just arrived in the promised land ....


Ah... The T1 life changed so much over the years. I remember the days where you'd fly out of there on an A380 on NEV3 equipped cabin that looked so big it felt like you were in a movie theatre or a boat. The days of Aeroflot 777s... the days where the TK lounge was the AZ lounge. The days when the AF lounge had these plastic white and red chairs instead of the blue leather chairs ! So ugly and uncomfortable.

But yeah, being honest, there is not much I will miss about it. I'll go and put a rose on top of the rubbles when it's gone. After I tasted T4 with SkyPriority and DL for the first time I simply switched to DL and KL for flights out of JFK. (even if, in truth, the first time I experienced T4 was with LX.)