Idelwild International Airport, as JFK used to be known, was opened on July 31, 1948 under the administration of New York City Mayor, Fiorello H. La Guardia. Covering over two thousand hectares, it became the largest airport in the United States. Its design was considered particularly unusual at the time since terminals and parking space were arranged in the middle of the airport. Airlines were also encouraged to build their own terminals, a unique concept at the time. The first jet service offered by an American airline, a Pan American Airways Boing 707, flew to London on October 26, 1958 in seven hours and twenty-seven minutes. In 1963 the airport was renamed John F. Kennedy Airport. During the 1970s and 1980s, JFK became the busiest cargo airport in the world, serving more than fifty-seven cargo airlines a year.The airport originally had ten terminals those have been consolidated into six today.
In 2017 57 million passengers used JFK Airport.
The following airlines fly to JFK Airport:
Aer Lingus
Aeroflot
Aerolíneas Argentinas
Aeroméxico
Aeroméxico Connect
Air China
Air Europa
Air France
Air India
Air Italy
Air Serbia
Alaska Airlines
Alitalia
All Nippon Airways
American Airlines
American Eagle
Asiana Airlines
Austrian Airlines
Avianca
Avianca Costa Rica
Avianca El Salvador
Azerbaijan Airlines
British Airways
Brussels Airlines
Cape Air
Caribbean Airlines
Cathay Pacific
Cayman Airways
China Airlines
China Eastern Airlines
China Southern Airlines
Copa Airlines
Delta Air Lines
Delta Connection
EgyptAir
El Al
Emirates
Ethiopian Airlines
Etihad Airways
Eurowings
EVA Air
Finnair
Hainan Airlines
Hawaiian Airlines
Iberia
Icelandair
Interjet
Japan Airlines
JetBlue
Kenya Airways
KLM
Korean Air
Kuwait Airways
LATAM Brasil
LATAM Chile
LATAM Ecuador
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LOT Polish Airlines
Lufthansa
Norwegian Air Shuttle
Philippine Airlines
Qantas
Qatar Airways
Royal Air Maroc
Royal Jordanian
Saudia
Singapore Airlines
South African Airways
Swiss International Air Lines
TAP Air Portugal
Thomas Cook Airlines
Turkish Airlines
Ukraine International Airlines
Uzbekistan Airways
Virgin Atlantic
VivaAerobus
Volaris
Volaris Costa Rica
WestJet
XiamenAir