SUBSCRIBEJFK International Airport is tops!
While surfing online, I saw images of John F Kennedy International Airport and was amazed with its architecture that I dug some bits of info about this New York hub. Located at Jamaica Bay in Long Island, New York, it is considered the busiest in the Unites States in terms of passenger and cargo volume. If you stretch it further, it can be considered as the modern day Ellis Island.
It was built for five years with it’s first flight in 1948 and has undergone many names, first as Idlewild Airport, referring to the name of the golf course where it now sits, then to Major General Alexander E. Anderson Airport, in honor of a local hero and later became New York International Airport. In 1963, in memory of the slain president, it was given it’s present name. Simply, it’s known as “Kennedy” or the JFK.
It has eight terminals with Terminal 5 the most spectacular and considered one of the distinguished world airport architectural design done by Eero Saarinen in 1962. The “clamshell” design is actually an abstract symbol of flight. Terminal 3 on the other hand was one of the first few airline terminals to use the Jetway, that familiar tube that the passenger passes in boarding in and out of the plane.
JFK Airport transportation is also commendable as it is easily accessed both with public and private transport. In 2003, the AirTrain JFK, a rapid mass transit connected the airport to New York’s subway and commuter trains.
