: 2 Title to the land was conveyed to the city at the end of December 1941. : 2 In late 1941, mayor Fiorello La Guardia announced that the city had tentatively chosen a large area of marshland on Jamaica Bay, which included the Idlewild Golf Course as well as a summer hotel and a landing strip called the Jamaica Sea-Airport, for a new airfield. It was built to relieve LaGuardia Field, which had become overcrowded after its 1939 opening. Kennedy International Airport was originally called Idlewild Airport ( IATA: IDL, ICAO: KIDL, FAA LID: IDL) after the Idlewild Beach Golf Course that it displaced. Map showing New York City and the locations of JFK (1), LaGuardia (2), and Newark (3) airports Construction 3.2.3 International Arrivals Building (Original Terminal 4).Kennedy International Airport as a tribute to the 35th President. Kennedy's assassination in 1963, the airport was renamed John F. The facility opened in 1948 as New York International Airport and was commonly known as Idlewild Airport. JFK was also formerly a hub for Pan Am, TWA, Eastern, National, and Tower Air. JFK is a hub for both American Airlines and Delta Air Lines, and it is the primary operating base for JetBlue. The airport features six passenger terminals and four runways. JFK is located in the Jamaica neighborhood of Queens, 16 miles (26 km) southeast of Midtown Manhattan. More than ninety airlines operate from the airport, with nonstop or direct flights to destinations in all six inhabited continents. The airport is the busiest international air passenger gateway into North America, the 20th-busiest airport in the world, the sixth-busiest airport in the United States, and the busiest airport in the New York airport system, having handled over 62.5 million passengers in 2019. Kennedy International Airport ( IATA: JFK, ICAO: KJFK, FAA LID: JFK) (colloquially referred to as JFK Airport, New York-JFK, or JFK) is an international airport in New York City.
Source: Port Authority of New York and New Jersey FAA
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