Runway decisions in the NY are are not made by atc's, they are made by FAA management in CLOSE coordination with the airlines. Any time JFK is in a single runway configuration the users complain loudly. The user perspective is if the airplane can accept a xxkt crosswind and the wind is not greater than that number we will use runway configurations that are the most effecient. Safety, and landing into the wind is now a distant second in NY.

Please do not blame the controller for placing you in a crosswind situation; if we had our way safety would be and should always be first. You would land into the wind!!!

The only standardfor runway changes in NY is pilot refusal to accept the landing runway because of the wind conditions. With that said there are companies who operate in the NY area who want to know the flight number of every ac that complains or does not accept the publshed runways.

Landing in a crosswind is no longer an atc initiated action it is the airlines that are dictating runway usage!!!