Flights from New York JFK (JFK)

Airlines flying from New York JFK

1. 1JFK was originally named 'Idlewild' — for the golf course that previously occupied the land — and was renamed for John F. Kennedy in December 1963, six weeks after the president's assassination in Dallas.
2. 2Terminal 5 at JFK is the original TWA Flight Center, an Eero Saarinen-designed 1962 structure preserved as the lobby of the TWA Hotel — the only on-airport hotel in the US that's also a National Historic Landmark.
3. 3Terminal 4 handles more international airlines (over 30) than any single terminal at any other US airport — and is the busiest international gateway by passenger volume on the East Coast.
4. 4JFK's runway 13L/31R is the longest at any New York-area airport at 14,572 feet — long enough to land the Space Shuttle, which actually used it as an emergency abort runway during the program.
5. 5The AirTrain to Jamaica was first proposed in 1968; it took 35 years of debate before opening in 2003 — making it the longest-developed major airport rail connection in US history.

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