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Newark Airport was the first major airport in the New York area:
it opened on

October 1,
1928,
occupying an area of New Jersey marshland filled with

dredged soil.

In 1935,

Amelia Earhart dedicated the Newark Airport Administration Building,
which was North America's first commercial airline terminal (Croydon
Aerodrome, south of
London,
was the world's first, predating Newark by seven years). Newark
was the busiest airport in the world until

LaGuardia Airport opened in 1939, dividing New York's air traffic
and allowing

Chicago Midway International Airport to take the lead. Newark
was temporarily closed to passenger traffic and taken over by the

United States Army for logistics operations during

World War II.

The

Port Authority of New York and New Jersey took over the airport
in 1948 and made major investments in airport infrastructure, opening
new runways and hangars and revamping the airport's terminal layout.
Airline traffic resumed that year. The art deco Administration Building
served as the main terminal until the opening of the North Terminal
in 1953, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places
in 1979.

In the 1950s, there were suggestions to move the airport after
two crashes within a month occurred at nearby Elizabeth, New Jersey.[6]
A new international airport to serve the New York City area would
have been built in what is now the

Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, however local protests
defeated the plan.[7]

In the 1970s, the airport underwent a significant enlargement,
including the construction of the current Terminals A, B, and C,
and was renamed Newark International Airport. Terminals A and B
opened in 1973, although some charter and international flights
requiring customs clearance remained at the North Terminal. The
main building of Terminal C was completed at the same time, but
only metal framing work was done on the terminal's satellites, and
it lay dormant until the mid-1980s, when for a brief time the west
third of the terminal was equipped for international arrivals and
used for certain

People Express transcontinental flights. Terminal C was fully
completed and opened to the public in June 1988.

Underutilized throughout the 1970s, Newark expanded dramatically
in the 1980s.

People Express struck a deal with the Port Authority to use
the North Terminal as both its air terminal and corporate office
in 1981 and began operations at Newark that year. It quickly rose
to become one of the largest American airlines, steadily increasing
Newark's traffic in the through most of the 1980s.

Virgin Atlantic Airways began flights from Newark to
London
in 1984, challenging JFK's status as New York's international gateway
(however, Virgin Atlantic now has more flights going out of JFK
than out of Newark). Federal Express (Now known as

FedEx Express) opened its second hub at the airport in 1986.[8]
When People Express was merged into Continental in 1987, operations
at the North Terminal were greatly reduced, and the building was
demolished to make way for cargo facilities in the early 1990s.
Newark has remained a hub for Continental.

Today, Continental has its Global Gateway at Terminal C, having
completed a major expansion project that included the construction
of a new, third concourse and a new

Federal Inspection Services facility. With its Newark hub, Continental
is the largest provider of air service to the

New York metropolitan area.

United Airlines Flight 93 pushed back from gate A17 at 8:01
am, on its way from Newark to

San Francisco International Airport, on

September 11,
2001.
Two hours later it would crash into a field in

Shanksville, Pennsylvania, when passengers attempted to take
over the plane from a team of hijackers. Based on the direction
that the plane was flying at the time and information gathered afterwards,
most observers believe that the hijackers intended to crash the
plane into a target in

Washington, D.C., such as the

Capitol or

White House. In memory of this event, the airport's name was
changed from Newark International Airport to Newark Liberty International
Airport. This name was chosen over the initial proposal, Liberty
International Airport at Newark, and refers to the landmark

Statue of Liberty, just 7 miles (11 km) east of the airport.
Despite the name change few locals call it by its new name. The
name most often used by locals is "Newark Airport" or simply "Newark".

In 2001, Newark Liberty International Airport became the terminus
of the world's longest non-stop scheduled airline route, Continental's
service to

Hong Kong. In 2004,

Singapore Airlines broke Continental's record by starting non-stop
18-hour flights to

Singapore from Newark. Continental began flying from Newark
to
Beijing
on
June
15,
2005 and
Delhi
on

November 1,
2005.
When these services began, Continental became for a time the only
airline to serve
India
nonstop from the United States, and the third U.S. carrier, after

United and

Northwest to serve

mainland China nonstop and the first U.S. carrier to offer nonstop
flights to Beijing from New York. On
July
16,
2007, Continental Airlines announced that it would seek government
approval for nonstop flights between Newark and

Shanghai in 2009. In September 2007, the United States Department
of Transportation tentatively awarded Continental the right to fly
to Shanghai from Newark beginning

March 25,
2009
using

Boeing 777-200ER aircraft.

Since June 2008 flight caps restricting the number of flights
to 81 per hour have been in use. The flight caps, which are only
in effect until 2009, are intended to be a short-term solution to
Newark Airport's congestion problem.