See the brand new worldwide terminal of 9.5 billion US {dollars} within the JFK Airport

The future ticket counter at the new Terminal 1 of JFK 1.

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It is anything but finished, but the new 9.5 billion dollar -term 1 at John F. Kennedy International Airport takes shape. The first phase is to be opened in mid -2026.

The current terminal will replace that opened in 1998.

The terminal that will be the largest JFK is now Weathheright. A wrapping luggage conveyor belt structures were installed, and you can record future ticket switches in which customers such as Turkish Airlines, Air New Zealand, Etihad Airways, Air China, Taiawans China Airlines and others set their luggage and their passports.

JFKS New Terminal 1 in construction.

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The terminal, which is about the size that the two new Laguardia airport terminals, which have been opened in the past decade, are opened only to international travelers that the developer is of crucial importance for the design.

“From the first pen to paper … we had the international customer in mind,” said Jennifer Aument, CEO of the new terminal One, the company that developed the project last month at a press conference at the airport.

The new luggage transport system on the new Terminal 1 of JFK 1.

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At the beginning of July, CNBC and other media viewed the construction step, which Aument led, as part of the fact that the company will probably be one of the last hardhat tours through the facility before the opening day.

The project is part of the port authority of New York and New Jerseys 19 -Milliarden -Dollar -overhaul from JFK. In addition to Terminal 1, the current Terminal 7, which is currently home Alaska Airlines And Ireland's Aer Lingus will be put down for a new Terminal 6, the first goals of which will be opened next year. Compared to 8 billion US dollars, the airport at the airport at the airport cost around 8 billion US dollars compared to this.

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With increasing air traffic, airports across the country are replaced by the aging infrastructure.

According to a report, US airports need at least $ 173.9 billion for upgrades for infrastructure at the beginning of this year at the beginning of this year.

“These investments – an average of almost 35 billion US dollars per year – are of crucial importance for airlines and passengers to improve operational efficiency, improve service quality and customer experience and to meet the airport's resilience,” it said.

The future luggage application area at the new Terminal 1 of JFK 1.

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The new JFK terminal 1 will open at the beginning of the 2026 World Cup when some games in the Metlife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, are removed about 30 miles.

More than half of the airlines at JFK will change the terminal in the coming years due to the construction, said Aument.

One thing that she pointed out with the new design: “A terminal flooded with light.” This means that no lines in the basement.

JFKS Terminal 1S New Departure Hall under construction.

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The departure hall, the safety traces and customs are located on the same level of the three -story terminal with a wall made of weird windows. His design, under the direction of the Gensler architecture firm, is intended to conjure up the image of a butterfly, whereby the body splitting the terminal in the middle.

The airtrain, which connects the terminals and parking spaces of the airport with train stations in Queens, already runs through the construction site and stops at the terminal when the system is opened.

The overhaul of JFK also includes improvements in the airport, where traffic has been crabbed for the largest hub in the region for years.

JFKS future terminal in construction

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The mid-2026 of Terminal 1 includes the departure and arrival areas and the first 14 goals, all of which are able to obtain large-body aircraft that are used for long-haul flights and have a capacity for 14 million passengers per year.

23 TORE-22 wide body gates and a narrow body gate for aircraft such as an Airbus A320 or a Boeing 737S will be given when the rest of the project is completed and is currently planned for 2030.

The final version of Terminal 1 will also have more than 300,000 square meters of food, retail, lounge and leisure areas with more than half, 180,000 square meters for retail and restaurants.

The future entrance from JFKS new Terminal 1.

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Aument said the airport would be the only one in the United States with a duty-free purchase of cash-and-folds. Generally active customers, duty -free purchases, which are then returned to them before they rise to their flights, but they can take them in this format immediately.

The new terminal will also have its own microgrid with solar collectors on the roof, which the developer will enable the system, “the full failure and maintenance of 100% [of the terminal’s] Operations in the case of performance disorders. “