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JFK transformation!!
« on: October 04, 2018, 01:00:13 PM »
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Re: JFK transformation!!
« Reply #1 on: October 04, 2018, 01:23:25 PM »
Should be in Up in The Air I think.

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Re: JFK transformation!!
« Reply #2 on: October 04, 2018, 02:09:22 PM »
Should be in Up in The Air I think.
Yup

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Re: JFK transformation!!
« Reply #3 on: October 04, 2018, 02:10:25 PM »
Should be in Up in The Air I think.
Yup
I thought of it as an interesting article split.
But I guess the mods can decide
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Re: JFK transformation!!
« Reply #4 on: October 04, 2018, 02:49:50 PM »
And the horrendous NYC airport construction is contagious
https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-cuomo-announces-13-billion-plan-transform-jfk-world-class-21st-century-airport
I guess I must be in the minority here. I don't find LGA construction so terrible (though I do find the single runway to be a huge problem - spent as much time taxiing yesterday that I did in the air on the way to CLE).

Visited CLE for the first time yesterday, and I can tell you that I like the JFK and LGA experience over the CLE experience (though it could be a little of a hometown effect).

The big news about JFK is terminal One, which is run by the Terminal One Group, that IMHO should be fined and/or barred from running it, as I find it the worst terminal in JFK, both inbound and outbound.
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Re: JFK transformation!!
« Reply #5 on: October 04, 2018, 02:50:56 PM »
I guess I must be in the minority here. I don't find LGA construction so terrible (though I do find the single runway to be a huge problem - spent as much time taxiing yesterday that I did in the air on the way to CLE).

Visited CLE for the first time yesterday, and I can tell you that I like the JFK and LGA experience over the CLE experience (though it could be a little of a hometown effect).
Pray tell, which part?
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Re: JFK transformation!!
« Reply #6 on: October 04, 2018, 02:59:05 PM »
Pray tell, which part?
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Re: JFK transformation!!
« Reply #7 on: October 04, 2018, 03:28:01 PM »
I like the JFK and LGA experience over the CLE experience

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Re: JFK transformation!!
« Reply #8 on: October 04, 2018, 03:43:12 PM »
while new terminals is great and all, the problem is that they are not adding any runways which will be a bigger problem in the future

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Re: JFK transformation!!
« Reply #9 on: October 04, 2018, 03:45:00 PM »
while new terminals is great and all, the problem is that they are not adding any runways which will be a bigger problem in the future
Same at LGA. So it's all for naught. The biggest problem with NYC airports are the long delays.
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JFK transformation!!
« Reply #10 on: October 04, 2018, 03:52:41 PM »
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Re: JFK transformation!!
« Reply #11 on: October 04, 2018, 03:54:16 PM »
Same at LGA. So it's all for naught. The biggest problem with NYC airports are the long delays.

this was done so Cuomo can say he is revitalizing the infrastructure and fixing the airports-all to benefit his 2020 run-not real solutions for real problems

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Re: JFK transformation!!
« Reply #12 on: October 04, 2018, 04:05:16 PM »
this was done so Cuomo can say he is revitalizing the infrastructure and fixing the airports-all to benefit his 2020 run-not real solutions for real problems

Isn't 100% of what politicians do just to benefit their current/next run?
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Re: JFK transformation!!
« Reply #13 on: October 04, 2018, 04:06:39 PM »
Same at LGA. So it's all for naught. The biggest problem with NYC airports are the long delays.

Terminal One at JFK has a huge problem with gate availability IME. I've seen inbound flights wait way over an hour for a gate.

As far as additional runways, at JFK they'll need to reclaim some of Jamaica Bay, which would probably be a non-starter with environmentalists.

With LGA maybe they'll kill two birds with one stone, converting Rikers Island into some kind of an expansion of LGA.
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Re: JFK transformation!!
« Reply #14 on: October 04, 2018, 04:07:33 PM »
Isn't 100% of what politicians do just to benefit their current/next run?

With the exception of DJT, but he's not really a politician.  ;)
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Re: JFK transformation!!
« Reply #15 on: October 04, 2018, 04:36:43 PM »
+.5
I'm not comparing it to major airports like ORD, ATL, DTW, DFW etc, but more of a comparison to MDW and the like.
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Re: JFK transformation!!
« Reply #16 on: October 04, 2018, 04:37:41 PM »
All NYC airports are failures.
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Re: JFK transformation!!
« Reply #17 on: October 04, 2018, 04:47:13 PM »
All NYC airports are epic failures.
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Re: JFK transformation!!
« Reply #18 on: October 04, 2018, 06:45:05 PM »
Terminal One at JFK has a huge problem with gate availability IME. I've seen inbound flights wait way over an hour for a gate.

As far as additional runways, at JFK they'll need to reclaim some of Jamaica Bay, which would probably be a non-starter with environmentalists.

With LGA maybe they'll kill two birds with one stone, converting Rikers Island into some kind of an expansion of LGA.
T1 when you exit customs you basically get kicked out on the street right away with no space to walk/wait/relax and hardly space on the street either

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Re: JFK transformation!!
« Reply #19 on: October 04, 2018, 06:46:22 PM »
T1 when you exit customs you basically get kicked out on the street right away with no space to walk/wait/relax and hardly space on the street either

JFK T1 is the only terminal where I recommend being picked up at arrivals level rather than departures, which is my SOP for most airport terminals.

Overall, it's a horrendous terminal, and badly run (maybe they can't do better with what they're handed).
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