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New York John F. Kennedy Airport

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By Marnix (Max) Groot
Airport Development 
Expert and Historian
Published: April 30, 2020

Introduction

In this fifth installment of our history of Kennedy Airport, we will focus on the last and smallest of the early terminals of Terminal City: the combined terminal for Northeast, Braniff and Northwest, which opened in 1962. We will also look at some of the other magnificent facilities that were built to support the operation of the airport. Then we'll find out how critics and the general public reacted to Terminal City. 

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The three carriers made a statement by not making the architectural statements of the major airlines.

​Nothing focuses, everything fights.
- Ada Louise Huxtable, NYT architecture critic

To be continued in Part 7!

This concludes the sixth installment of our history on Kennedy Airport! In Part 7, to be launched next week, we will focus on Terminal City's expansion with two new terminals, the BOAC terminal and National's Sundrome. We'll also look at some of the fantastic schemes that were floated to increase JFK's runway capacity.

Did you miss Part 5 of our history on Kennedy Airport? You can read it here.

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