Airport information: New York-JFK

Airport Code: JFK
General telephone enquiries: +1 (1)718 244 4444

Website: http://www.kennedyairport.com

Location

New York John F Kennedy airport is 14 miles south east of the city centre. The airport is linked to the I678 Van Wyck expressway leading to the city centre or the Belt Parkway and Shore Parkway running roughly parallel to the coast.

Address

John F. Kennedy International Airport, The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Building 14, Jamaica, New York 11430, United States

About the Airport

New York JFK airport handles around 43 million passengers per year through nine terminals. It is a hub for Delta and American Airlines. JFK is the largest of the three New York airports and the main international airport in the United States. The terminals were each designed and used by one of the major airlines operating out of the airport. Some date back to the 1960's and there is currently a huge investment programme in place to upgrade the airport. For the UK flights, T1 is used by Maxjet, T3 by Delta, T4 by Air India, Eos, Kuwait Airlines, Virgin and Zoom, T7 by BA and T9 by American. There is a rapid rail link called AirTrain between all the terminals and the New York Subway at Howard Beach and Jamaica Station. The Jamaica Station branch also links to the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) commuter trains. There are public buses that similarly link to the subway and LIRR. You can also catch a helicopter to Downtown Manhattan Heliport every hour with US Helicopters.

Destinations

Airport	Airline	Route Starts	Route Ends
Edinburgh (EDI)	Delta
London Gatwick (LGW)	British Airways
London Heathrow (LHR)	Air India, American Airlines, British Airways, Delta, Kuwait Airlines, Virgin Atlantic
Manchester (MAN)	Delta

Extra Information

New York or the "Big Apple" as it is known is one of the most famous, dynamic, diverse and fascinating cities in the world. It lies on several islands and surrounding shoreline on the Hudson river on America's eastern seaboard. The city is divided into five boroughs, Manhattan, Queens, The Bronx, Brooklyn and Staten Island, and each borough is further subdivided into neighbourhoods. Manhattan Island is the central most visited area. New York was founded by immigrants, a process that is still ongoing and many neigbourhoods have a distinct ethnic communities such as Little Italy, Chinatown and Harlem. New York is the commercial powerhouse of the American economy, the stock exchanges are here on Wall St, and many of the top US companies have their headquarters in the city. In addition to finance, New York is also a centre for culture, arts and fashion. There are many excellent museums, the best being the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the American Museum of Natural History and the Lincoln Centre containing ballet, opera, orchestras, films and theatres. New York is defined by its internationally recognised landmarks, for example the Statue of Liberty, the Brooklyn Bridge, the Empire State Building, Central Park, the United Nations building, Times Square and more recently Ground Zero, the site of terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre in 2001. Traffic, especially in Manhattan is very busy and parking is almost impossible, but the fairly compact and flat central layout means that many people walk, perhaps the best way to soak up New York's unique appeal.