![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The $9.5 billion new terminal will, at 2.4 million square feet, be more than twice the size of the terminals it is replacing and as big as all of the new LaGuardia. The main projects affecting travelers will be the area around the new Terminal 1, where construction and demolition will get under way this summer, replacing the existing Terminal 1 that’s home to major tenants Air France, Lufthansa, Japan Airlines (JAL), and Korean, as well as Terminal 2, which was used by Delta for some domestic operations but is now empty and preparing for a date with the wrecking ball. The current number of six separate terminals will shrink to four, anchored by two new complexes at either end of the airport, in what’s being billed as “one unified Kennedy Airport”-a goal that has eluded the airport’s planners for much of its 75-year history.Ĭourtesy of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey “We are applying lessons learned from to minimize as much as possible any inconvenience to passengers at JFK.”Īny inconvenience, though, may be felt as early as this month, when work begins on a massive $19 billion overhaul of the sprawling facility (by contrast, LaGuardia’s cost a mere $8 billion). “We aren’t waiting to react to problems, we are working to get ahead of them,” says Rick Cotton, executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates both JFK and LaGuardia. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) say they do remember that nightmare, and they’re working to avoid a repeat as the Big Apple’s international hub gets its own Cinderella treatment. Remember the epic gridlock during the building of the “new” LaGuardia, when scenes of passengers exiting their cars on the parkways and racing on foot to catch their flights went viral? ![]() And ongoing construction projects haven’t helped. Anyone who has ever commuted to an airport in New York City is familiar with the famously snarled roadways one has to endure to get there. ![]()
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