Ari707
2010-08-05, 12:48 PM
NBCNewYork.com
The crowded, cramped and often chaotic Delta Air Lines terminals at Kennedy International Airport are reportedly on track to get a green light for a massive $1.2 billion overhaul.
The board of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey plans to vote on the project today.
Delta is the country's largest airline and has been vying to expand its presence in the tight New York market, where Continental and American Airlines are major players. Currently, Delta handles about one-quarter of JFK's nearly 50 million annual passengers.
The plan would see Delta moving out of its current home in Terminal 3 -- the former Pan Am depot -- and relocating to Terminal 4, where it would gain nine additional passenger gates and an expanded baggage claim and customs area, The Wall Street Journal reports. Delta would continue to send its domestic flights out of Terminal 2.
The expansion of Terminal 4 would not be completed until 2013 at the earliest, according to The New York Times. Delta will pay the bulk of the costs for the renovation.
Should the plans proceed, Delta would follow American and Jet Blue in updating and modernizing terminals at JFK, one of the world's busiest airports.
The crowded, cramped and often chaotic Delta Air Lines terminals at Kennedy International Airport are reportedly on track to get a green light for a massive $1.2 billion overhaul.
The board of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey plans to vote on the project today.
Delta is the country's largest airline and has been vying to expand its presence in the tight New York market, where Continental and American Airlines are major players. Currently, Delta handles about one-quarter of JFK's nearly 50 million annual passengers.
The plan would see Delta moving out of its current home in Terminal 3 -- the former Pan Am depot -- and relocating to Terminal 4, where it would gain nine additional passenger gates and an expanded baggage claim and customs area, The Wall Street Journal reports. Delta would continue to send its domestic flights out of Terminal 2.
The expansion of Terminal 4 would not be completed until 2013 at the earliest, according to The New York Times. Delta will pay the bulk of the costs for the renovation.
Should the plans proceed, Delta would follow American and Jet Blue in updating and modernizing terminals at JFK, one of the world's busiest airports.