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The facility opened in 1948 as New York International Airport [12] [13] [14] and was commonly known as Idlewild Airport. [15] Following the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963, the airport was renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport in tribute to him.
The airport was dedicated on October 15, 1939, as the New York Municipal Airport, [37] [38] and opened for business on December 2 of that year. [31] The modest North Beach Airport was transformed into a 550-acre (220-ha) state-of-the-art facility at a cost of $23 million to New York City.
Shanghai Pudong International Airport Satellite Concourse China: Shanghai: 622,000 m 2 (6,700,000 sq ft) World's largest stand-alone satellite terminal [39] Hong Kong International Airport Terminal 1 Hong Kong: Chek Lap Kok: 570,000 m 2 (6,100,000 sq ft) [40] Suvarnabhumi Airport Thailand: Bangkok: 563,000 m 2 (6,060,000 sq ft) [41]
This is a list of airports in New York (a U.S. state), grouped by type and sorted by location.It contains all public-use and military airports in the state. Some private-use and former airports may be included where notable, such as airports that were previously public-use, those with commercial enplanements recorded by the FAA or airports assigned an IATA airport code.
Terminal 3, also known by the trademarked name Worldport, was an airport terminal built by Pan American World Airways (Pan Am) in 1960 at John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens, New York, United States. It operated from May 24, 1960 to May 24, 2013, and was demolished in 2013–2014.
The AeroTrain transports passengers between the Main Terminal Building and Concourses A, B, and C. From the Main Terminal Station, trains travel to Concourse A and Concourse C in one direction, and to Concourse B in the other direction. The track map for AeroTrain is shaped like a fishhook, with the Main Terminal Station at the bottom. The ...
Flights are now arriving and departing from a new extension of Nashville International Airport's main terminal: an eight-gate satellite concourse.. This latest addition to the ever-expanding ...
[2] [3] New York City was in dire need of a new airport by 1934, after Fiorello H. La Guardia was elected mayor. [4] [5] Angered that a flight on which he was a passenger landed in Newark, New Jersey, even though his ticket said "New York", LaGuardia pushed New Yorkers to support the construction of an airport in New York City itself. [5]