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JetBlue to Build New Terminal at Kennedy

August 5, 2004
 By THOMAS J. LUECK





The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said
yesterday that it had reached an agreement with JetBlue
Airways to build a new terminal at Kennedy International
Airport, a move meant to expand service and reopen Terminal
5, the airport's arching architectural landmark.

The Port Authority also said that it had struck a deal with
the Federal Aviation Administration, the New York State
Historical Preservation Office and the Advisory Council on
Historic Preservation to restore and find another use for
Terminal 5, the gull-winged edifice completed in 1962 for
Trans World Airlines and known internationally as a
monument to the early days of jet-powered commercial
flight. The new terminal would be connected to Terminal 5
by two pedestrian tubes.

"Generations to come can marvel at this architectural
masterpiece," Gov. George E. Pataki said of the plan to
revitalize Terminal 5, which was designed by the architect
Eero Saarinen, and has been closed since T.W.A. ended
operations in 2001.

For JetBlue, a fast-growing domestic airline that made its
first flights out of Kennedy in 2000, the deal represents a
major financial commitment to New York City as its base.
The Port Authority said the new terminal would be built on
a 70-acre tract and cost $850 million, with construction
expected to begin in 2005.

Details of the financing remained unclear yesterday. The
Port Authority said it would share the $850 million
construction bill with JetBlue.

The Port Authority said that JetBlue had agreed to operate
the new terminal under a lease that would run up to 34
years, but that financial terms of the lease remained to be
worked out.

JetBlue, which carries about seven million passengers a
year through Kennedy, has quickly emerged as the airport's
busiest carrier, even though it offers few international
flights. It serves 25 cities across the United States and
two in the Dominican Republic.

The airline has said it wants to triple its business out of
Kennedy, and its new 640,000-square-foot terminal would
provide 26 new passenger gates. The plan also calls for a
connecting bridge to the AirTrain station, a parking garage
with 1,500 spaces and the connecting tubes to Terminal 5,
where JetBlue said it would provide two electronic ticket
kiosks for customers who want to walk through the historic
structure.

"We eagerly await the day when Terminal 5 will become
JetBlue's home too," said JetBlue's chairman, David
Neeleman. The agreement announced yesterday came after
years of debate between aviation planners and
preservationists over the fate of Terminal 5, which no
airlines had expressed an interest in using for passenger
service. Its architecture, considered breathtaking by some,
is deemed out of date by the airline industry.

One earlier idea offered by the Port Authority was to build
an enormous C-shaped terminal around the Saarinen building,
which would be used by several airlines. That plan would
have rehabilitated Terminal 5, and had envisioned
connecting the building to the new terminal with pedestrian
tubes similar to those in the deal announced yesterday.

But the earlier plan provoked determined opposition from
the Municipal Art Society and preservationists, who said it
would cut Terminal 5 off from taxiways and runways and
overwhelm the aesthetics of its winged architecture.

Port Authority officials said yesterday that their
agreement with JetBlue called for a far smaller building,
which would be directly behind Terminal 5 and would not
undermine its architectural appeal.

Port Authority Executive Director Joseph J. Seymour said
that the agreement would preserve "a fundamental part of
the airport's past, while we also employ good business
sense to meet our future needs."

But exactly how Terminal 5 will be used, besides as a small
diversion for JetBlue passengers walking to and from their
new terminal, has not been determined. The Port Authority
said it was in contact with more than 40 firms interested
in restoring and redeveloping the building for a variety of
uses.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/05/nyregion/05jet.html?ex=1092712892&ei=1&en=90e5159a1ab2dfd9


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