Future ticket counter in JFK’s new Terminal 1.
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It is finished, but John F. The new, $ 9.5 billion terminal is taking 1 shape at Kennedy International Airport. Its first phase has been slate to open in mid -2012.
It would replace the current terminal, which was opened in 1998.
The terminal, which will be the largest of JFK, is now WeatherTite. Curved goods conveyor belt structures have been installed, and you can make future ticket counters, where customers are flying carriers such as Turkish Airlines, Air New Zealand, Etihad Airways, Air China, Taiwan’s China Airlines and others and others will set their belongings and show their passports to the ticket agents.
JFK’s new terminal 1 under construction.
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Terminal – The size of two new Lagardia airport terminals opened in the last decade was set to set roughly – only to international travelers, which are important to the design that the developers said.
“Earlier from the pen to paper … we had an international customer,” the new terminal one CEO Jennifer Ement said by a company developing the project last month at a press conference at the airport.
New goods transport system in JFK’s new Terminal 1.
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The CNBC and other media took a look at the construction progress, which will be led by the part of what the company said in early July, possibly as the last hardhat tourism of the convenience before the opening of the day.
The project is part of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s JFK’s $ 19 billion overlah. In addition to terminal 1, current terminal 7, currently home Alaska Airlines And Er Lingus of Ireland will be knocked for a new terminal 6, whose first gates are about to open next year. In comparison, the improvement of Lagardia Airport was about $ 8 billion.
As air traffic increases, airports across the country are running to change the infrastructure of aging.
According to a report earlier this year by Airport Council International-North America, American airports need at least $ 173.9 billion to upgrade infrastructure from this year.
“These investments – average of about $ $ 35 billion annually – Airlines and passengers are required to improve operational efficiency, increase service quality and customer experience and meet the needs of airport reconsideration,” said this.
Future goods claim area in JFK’s new Terminal 1.
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The new JFK Terminal 1 is set to open around the start of the 2026 World Cup, when some games will be held about 30 miles away at the East Rutherford, Metlife Stadium in New Jersey.
More than half of the airlines in JFK are changing terminals in the coming years because due to construction, Aument said.
One thing he gestured with the new design: “A terminal was filled with light.” This means that no basement customs lines.
JFK’s new departure hall of Terminal 1 is under construction.
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The departure hall, security lane and customs will be at the same level as a three-floor terminal, with a wall of slapped windows. Its design led by the architecture firm Gensler, is considered to add the image of a butterfly, with dividing the terminal in the middle of the body.
Airtine, which connects the airport terminals and parking lots with train stations in Queens, is already running through the construction site and will stop at the terminal when the convenience opens.
JFK overhaul also includes improvement in roadways around the airport, where traffic has creeps around the largest hub in the region for years.
JFK’s future terminal is under construction
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The open departure and arrival area of the middle -2026 of Terminal 1 and the first 14 gates will be included, which are all able to receive the wide body aircraft that are used for long -lived flights, and will have the capacity for 14 million passengers a year.
There will be 23 Gates-22 Wide-Body Gates and a narrow-body gate for aircraft such as an Airbus A320 or Boeing 737s-when the rest of the project is completed, is currently scheduled for 2030.
The final version of Terminal 1 will also have food, retail, lounge and entertaining location, including more than half, more than 180,000 square feet, only for retail and food.
Future gate of JFK’s new Terminal 1.
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Aumement said that the airport will be the only person in the US which would be a cash-and-care duty-free purchase. Generally, customers will do duty-free purchases that then return them before riding on their flights, but in this format, they can take them immediately.
The new terminal will also have its own microgrid, with solar panels on the roof, the developer said that the facility would be able to “complete flexibility and 100% maintenance. [of the terminal’s] Operations in the event of electricity disruption. ,
