disregard......

JFK Renovations approved.
 

Delta Air gains approval for JFK overhaul
Thu Aug 5, 2010 5:04pm EDT

* Delta to move to expanded terminal

* Worldport building to be torn down

ATLANTA, Aug 5 (Reuters) - Delta Air Lines Inc (DAL.N) received approval on Thursday for a $1.2 billion overhaul of its operations at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport that includes the expansion of one terminal.

Plans call for Delta to operate its international traffic from Terminal 4, which will be upgraded with additional gates and more baggage claim space. Terminal 3, the aging PanAm Worldport building Delta currently uses, will be torn down to make way for parking.

Delta will operate from Terminal 4 under a 30-year arrangement, said the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the airport operator that approved the project. The expansion is expected to take three years, with the Terminal 3 razing to begin immediately afterward.

The overhaul is expected to create 6,400 jobs and will be financed by Delta, with special project bonds and passenger airport fees.

Delta, currently the world's largest airline after its 2008 purchase of Northwest, is looking to strengthen its presence in high-growth markets as demand for air travel returns.

It has said upgrading JFK is essential to attracting corporate passengers as it builds a major hub in New York City. This week, it also announced plans to improve dining services at its main terminal at LaGuardia Airport.

Delta handles almost a quarter of JFK's annual passenger traffic, the port authority said. (Reporting by Karen Jacobs; editing by Andre Grenon)

Blueprints PLEASE!

It will be boring... guaranteed.

Blueprints are in Angie's office at JFK...

9 gates added as a dogleg to the end of the West arm of T4...

looooong connector between 2 and 4

Remote parking in the footprint of the current T3 allows staging aircraft for T4 and T2...

Skyteam partners will park at the East arm of T4


Cheers
George

I agree. But as long as it isn't stifling in the summer, frigid in the winter, and as long as you can succesfully use the restrooms without having to supress vomitting, and as long as you can go from there to a computer that doesn't make your eyes bleed, from which you could actually ... print what you need to print... I would be satisfied.

If you could actually leave a clean "lounge", and walk to a clean "gate" to board your aircraft... that would be icing on the cake.

Please, please, please tell me this means NO MORE HARDSTANDS!!!!

I HATE those things. So embarrassing @ JFK. :o

Any of you scheduling gurus know what a code of MMC means? I have training coming up and icrew gave me a popup message about it. It shows up when I pull my my VTS data for 6 days immediately following my training. Also, I can't find a code reference list anywhere so if there is one somewhere on Deltanet can someone point me in the right direction? TIA. :)

Latin Names
 

Fine, just don't call me Shirley! :)

If we ever have an APC reunion we absolutely must have Carl perform a naming ceremony. I vote we model it on this:

YouTube - ‪Animal House‬‎

Scoop

Not that it matters...........at all.................

But what is the difference between a:

757
75x

I thought that the 75x was a 757-300, but the city pairs seem odd for the tall girl.

Ferd