Abstract: An airport terminal building or dock includes a recess into which an airplane wing can be moved spanwise, and a shiftable platform running on rails can support an airplane for movement transversely of the length of its fuselage to locate the airplane wing within the terminal building and the airplane fuselage alongside the terminal building. An airplane can be loaded by elevators adjacent to the terminal building and by a walkway supported by the terminal building and movable downward into a position alongside the airplane fuselage, which walkway in such position connects the terminal building passenger station and the airplane fuselage for transferring passengers between them.