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John F. Kennedy International Airport - Terminals airlines and destinations

Two pairs of parallel runways, four in all, surround the central terminal area. Runway 13R-31L is the second longest commercial runway in North America, at a length of 14,572 ft (4,441 m). There are also numerous large facilities north and west of the central terminals for air cargo handling and loading.

Further information: Transportation to New York City area airports

John F. Kennedy International Airport - Terminal 1

The site was originally occupied by Eastern Airlines' 1958 terminal. The original terminal was demolished and replaced by a new terminal, financed by a consortium of four international airlines (Air France, Japan Airlines, Korean Air, and Lufthansa), which was completed in 1998 and has eleven gates.

• Aeroflot (Moscow-Sheremetyevo)
• Aeroméxico (Cancún, Mexico City, Monterrey)
• Air China (Beijing)
• Air France (Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
• Air Plus Comet (Madrid)
• Alitalia (Milan-Malpensa, Rome-Fiumicino)
• Austrian Airlines (Vienna)
• China Airlines (Anchorage, Taipei-Chiang Kai Shek)
• Japan Airlines (São Paulo-Guarulhos, Tokyo-Narita)
• Korean Air (Seoul-Incheon)
• Lufthansa (Frankfurt, Munich)
• MAXjet (London-Stansted)
• Olympic Airlines (Athens)
• Royal Air Maroc (Casablanca)
• Turkish Airlines (Istanbul)

John F. Kennedy International Airport - Terminal 2

Terminal 2 was completed in 1962 for Northwest Airlines, Northeast Airlines, and Braniff Airways. It later evolved as an extension of the Pan Am terminal (see below) for domestic flights. Delta Air Lines acquired the terminal in Pan Am's wake and now uses it primarily for its low-fare subsidiary, Song. T2 has eleven gates, numbered 19 through 30.

• Continental Airlines (Houston-Intercontinental)
  • Continental Express operated by ExpressJet Airlines (Cleveland)
• Saudi Arabian Airlines (departures) (Jeddah, Riyadh)
• Delta Air Lines
  • Song operated by Delta Air Lines (Aruba, Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Nassau, Orlando, San Francisco, San Juan, Seattle/Tacoma, Tampa, West Palm Beach)

John F. Kennedy International Airport - Terminal 3

Terminal 3, which opened in 1960, was constructed for Pan American World Airways and was originally known as the Pan Am Terminal. In 1971 it was expanded and renamed as the "Pan Am Worldport". It is particularly famous for its "flying saucer" roof and noted for its rooftop parking facilities: upon its expansion in 1972, it was also briefly the world's largest airline terminal. Delta Air Lines purchased the terminal lease from failing Pan Am in 1991, and announced plans to demolish the terminal entirely in 2000, but later opted to refurbish the terminal instead. T3 has seventeen gates.

• CSA Czech Airlines (Prague)
• Delta Air Lines (Acapulco (starts March 11, 2006), Amsterdam, Athens, Atlanta, Barcelona, Berlin-Tegel, Boston, Brussels, Budapest (starts May 9, 2006), Chennai, Cincinnati, Dublin (starts May 15, 2006), Frankfurt, Istanbul, Kiev (slated for 2006), Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Madrid, Manchester (UK) (starts May 15, 2006), Mexico City, Milan-Malpensa, Moscow-Sheremetyevo, Mumbai, Nassau, Nice, Orlando, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Rome-Fiumicino, Salt Lake City, San Diego, San Francisco, Santiago DR, Santo Domingo, São Paulo-Guarulhos (begins June 1, 2006), Shannon (starts May 15, 2006), Venice, Washington-Reagan)
  • Delta Connection operated by Atlantic Southeast Airlines (Atlanta, Washington Dulles)
  • Delta Connection operated by Chautauqua Airlines (Columbus)
  • Delta Connection operated by Comair (Baltimore, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago/O'Hare, Cincinnati, Colorado Springs, Detroit, Indianapolis, Jacksonville, Miami, Nashville, Nassau, Norfolk, Pittsburgh, Raleigh/Durham, St. Louis, Tampa, Toronto)
  • Delta Connection operated by Shuttle America (Austin, Columbus, San Antonio)
• Malév Hungarian Airlines (Budapest)
• Miami Air (Charter)
• Royal Jordanian Airlines (Amman)
• Saudi Arabian Airlines (arrivals) (Jeddah, Riyadh)
• South African Airways (Dakar, Johannesburg)
• Sun Country Airlines (Minneapolis/St. Paul)

John F. Kennedy International Airport - Terminal 4

Terminal 4 opened in 2001 to replace the former International Arrivals Terminal. (The International Arrivals Terminal was an international style building that was built in the 1950s, and was one of the airport's earliest terminals.) It is the only 24-hour terminal at the airport, and features a modular design that will allow it to be expanded further if necessary. The terminal is run by a private consortium comprising Lehman Brothers, real estate developer LCOR Inc. and Dutch-based airport operator Schiphol USA. It currently has sixteen gates.

• Aer Lingus (Dublin, Shannon)
• Aerolíneas Argentinas (Buenos Aires-Ezeiza, Miami)
• Aerosvit Airlines (Kiev)
• Air India (London-Heathrow, Mumbai, New Delhi)
• Air Jamaica (Kingston, Montego Bay)
• Air Tahiti Nui (Papeete, Sydney)
• Asiana Airlines (Seoul-Incheon)
• Avianca (Bogota, Pereira, Cali, Medellin)
• Biman Bangladesh (Brussels, Dhaka, Dubai)
• BWIA West Indies (Georgetown, Port of Spain, Scarborough Tobago)
• Copa Airlines (Barranquilla, Panama City)
• Corsair (Paris-Orly (seasonal))
• Egyptair (Cairo)
• El Al (Tel Aviv)
• Emirates (Dubai)
• Eos Airlines (London-Stansted)
• Israir (Tel Aviv)
• JetBlue Airways (Santiago arrivals only)
• KLM (Amsterdam)
• Kuwait Airways (Kuwait City, London-Heathrow)
• LAN Airlines (Guayaquil, Lima, Santiago de Chile)
• LAN Peru (Lima)
• LOT Polish (Krakow, Warsaw)
• LTU (Düsseldorf)
• Mexicana (Mexico City)
• North American Airlines (Accra, Georgetown)
• Northwest Airlines (Detroit, Minneapolis/St. Paul)
  • Northwest Airlink operated by Pinnacle Airlines (Detroit)
• Pakistan International Airlines (Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Manchester UK)
• Singapore Airlines (Frankfurt, Singapore)
• Swiss International Air Lines (Geneva, Zürich)
• TACA (Guatemala City, San José CR, San Pedro Sula, San Salvador)
• TAM (São Paulo-Guarulhos)
• Thai Airways International (Bangkok)
• Uzbekistan Airways (Birmingham (UK), Tashkent)
• Varig (São Paulo-Guarulhos)
• Virgin Atlantic Airways (London-Heathrow)

John F. Kennedy International Airport - Terminal 5 closed

Terminal 5 was formerly the TWA terminal. It was designed by Eero Saarinen and completed in 1962. It is the airport's most famous landmark.

Following American Airlines' buyout of TWA in 2001, Terminal 5 went out of service. Its unique architectural features prevented the installation of modern security and ticketing facilities. The Port Authority had proposed converting the main portion of the building into a restaurant and conference center, but some architectural critics opposed this move.

In December 2005, JetBlue, which occupies the adjacent Terminal 6, began construction of an expanded terminal facility, which will utilize the front portion of Saarinen's Terminal 5 as an entry point. The peripheral air-side parts of Terminal 5 are expected to be demolished to make space for a mostly new terminal, which will have 26 gates and is expected to be complete by 2008.

John F. Kennedy International Airport - Terminal 6

Terminal 6 was originally built for National Airlines in 1969: TWA procured the building lease after National was sold to Pan Am. During the late 1990's, TWA leased part of the terminal to United Airlines who used it to fly to Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego. Following TWA's demise, T6 was partly renovated for the use of JetBlue Airways, requiring $7.5 million of capital investment for new terminal facilities and roadway upgrades. JetBlue's main operations hub is now housed in Terminal 6. It has fourteen gates.

• JetBlue Airways (Aguadilla, Austin, Bermuda (starts May 4, 2006), Boston, Buffalo, Burbank, Burlington, Denver, Fort Lauderdale, Fort Myers, Las Vegas, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Nassau (departures) New Orleans, Oakland, Ontario, Orlando, Phoenix, Ponce, Portland OR, Richmond VA (starts March 31, 2006), Rochester NY, Sacramento, Salt Lake City, San Diego, San Jose CA, San Juan, Santiago DR (departures), Seattle/Tacoma, Syracuse, Tampa, West Palm Beach)

John F. Kennedy International Airport - Terminal 7

Terminal 7 was originally known as the British Airways Terminal. It was completed in 1970 and extensively expanded and refurbished in 1991 and again in 2003. It is shaped like a rectangle, and has twelve gates around its airside perimeter.

• Air Canada (Calgary (starts March 1, 2006), Vancouver)
• All Nippon Airways (Tokyo-Narita)
• British Airways (London-Heathrow, Manchester)
• Cathay Pacific Airways (Hong Kong, Vancouver)
• Iberia Airlines (Madrid)
• Icelandair (Reykjavik (seasonal))
• Qantas (Los Angeles, Sydney)
• United Airlines (London-Heathrow, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Tokyo-Narita)
  • United Express operated by Mesa Airlines (Washington-Dulles)
• US Airways
  • US Airways operated by America West Airlines (Las Vegas, Phoenix)

John F. Kennedy International Airport - Terminal 8

Terminal 8 was completed in 1960 and originally known as the American Airlines Terminal. It is easily recognizable by its colorful stained-glass façade created by the American artist Robert Sowers. It has fifteen gates on two concourses, A (gates 1-10) and B (gates 20-24).

• American Airlines (Barbados, Bermuda, Brussels, Buenos Aires-Ezeiza, Cancún, Caracas, Kingston, Kralendijk, London-Heathrow, Miami, Montego Bay, Oranjestad, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Port-au-Prince, Providenciales, Puerto Plata, Punta Cana, Rio de Janeiro-Galeão, Rome-Fiumicino(seasonal), São Paulo-Guarulhos, St. Maarten, San Jose (CR), Santiago (DR), Santo Domingo, St. Thomas, Tokyo-Narita, Zürich)
• Finnair (Helsinki)

John F. Kennedy International Airport - Terminal 9

Terminal 9 is a mid-field satellite terminal connected to the landside by underground walkway. The current concourse opened on August 24, 2005, completing a phase-out of the old Terminal 9, which was completed in 1959 and previously known as the United Airlines Terminal. Both Terminal 8 and Terminal 9 will eventually be replaced by a $1.4 billion, 2.2 million square foot (200,000 m²) "mega-terminal," which will accommodate American Airlines' international and domestic passengers in one facility, in 2007: the next step is to demolish Terminal 8 and the old Terminal 9 to make way for the rest of the new terminal, which will eventually consist of two piers and a satellite [2].

• American Airlines (Dallas/Fort Worth, Los Angeles, Orange County, Phoenix, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose CA, San Juan, Seattle/Tacoma)
  • American Eagle (Boston, Chicago-O'Hare, Cleveland, Halifax, Montreal-Trudeau, Raleigh/Durham, St. Louis, Washington-Reagan)

John F. Kennedy International Airport - Other facilities

JFK has dedicated cargo terminals for Continental Airlines, Emirates SkyCargo, EVA Air, Japan Airlines, Korean Air, Nippon Cargo Airlines, Northwest Airlines, and United Airlines. Most cargo and maintenance facilities at JFK are located north and west of the main terminal area.

JetBlue Airways built a central maintenance and operations base at JFK, which was completed in May of 2005.

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