Two new terminals: New York’s Johne F. Kennedy Airport is to be expanded for $ 13 billion by 2025. (Computer image) KEYSTONE / AP New York Governor’s Office sda-ats
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New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport is to be modernized for $ 13 billion and get two new terminals. This should increase its capacity by around 15 million passengers per year, said the governor of the state, Andrew Cuomo.
The first new gates by JFK are scheduled to open in 2023 and the project is expected to be completed by 2025. 90 percent of the investment is to be financed privately, it said on Thursday.
The project will transform the international airport of the US metropolis into a “traffic hub of the 21st century” and one of the “best airports in the world”, promised Cuomo. In 2016, 59 million passengers had traveled through New York Airport. It was the fifth most popular airport in the USA.
The airport was opened for civil aviation in 1948. In 1963 it was named after the assassinated US President John F. Kennedy.
New York’s LaGuardia domestic airport is currently also being extensively modernized, with eight billion dollars going into the project. The ailing condition of the airport had long been criticized.
“We’re losing the development race,” said Governor Cuoma on Thursday. “You fly around the world and see what everyone else is building. And then you come back to the USA and understand that we are being left behind.”
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