John F Kennedy International Airport

John F. Kennedy Airport, commonly known as JFK, is an airport people love to hate. As New York City's largest international airport, it is big, busy and difficult to navigate. However, slowly but surely JFK is improving through extensive improvements to terminals, roadways and inter-terminal transportation. JFK has recently replaced its slow-poke inter-terminal buses with AirTran, a new light rail transit system. In addition to connecting all nine terminals, AirTran connects passengers to New York City subways and buses and the Long Island Rail Road - a great option for travelers wishing to avoid the congested roads leading to and from JFK, which is located 15 miles from midtown Manhattan in the southeastern section of Queens. All major airlines operate out of the airport offering flights around the country and the world. The bigger players have their own terminals: you'll find Delta in terminals 1 and 2; American in terminals 8 and 9, which will soon be replaced by a new terminal; British Airways in the expanded terminal 7; and low-fare airline, JetBlue recently announced that they will build a new terminal and utilize the currently unoccupied TWA Flight Center (terminal 5), which was originally designed by renowned architect Eero Saarinen.

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