See inside the new JFK Airport station 9.5 billion dollars

It is far from finishing, but the new station, which costs $ 9.5 billion at John F. Airport. Kennedy International crystallized. The first stage is scheduled to open in mid -2016.

It will replace the current station, which opened in 1998.

The station, which will be the largest JFK, is now weathertight. The window luggage belt structures have been installed, and you can make future ticket meters, where customers who fly airlines such as Turkish Airlines, Air New Zeland, Eithar Airways, Air China, Taiwan China Airlines, and others will put their luggage and show their passports to tickets.

The station – which is scheduled to be the size of the two airport stations for the New Eddia that has opened in the past decade combined – will be dedicated to only international travelers, which developers said was the key to the design.

“From the first pen to paper … we had the international customer into consideration,” Jennifer, CEO of The New Terminal One, said the company that is developing the project, at a press conference at the airport last month.

CNBC and the other media took a look at the progress of the construction, led by Hajjah, in early July as part of what the company said is likely to be among the last rounds of Harraa in the facility before the opening day.

The project is part of the New York Port Authority and the New Jersey Reform of $ 19 billion from JFK. In addition to station 1, current station 7, currently home to Alaska Airlines Ireland Aer Lingus will be demolished at a new station 6, which is scheduled to open with its first maps next year. The renewal of the La Gardadia airport, compared, was about $ 8 billion.

As air traffic grows, airports are racing around the country to replace the aging infrastructure.

American airports need at least $ 173.9 billion for infrastructure upgrades from this year until 2029, according to a report earlier this year by the North International Airport Council.

She said: “These investments – whose average is about 35 billion dollars annually – is necessary to accommodate airlines and passengers, improve operational efficiency, raise the quality of service and customer experience, and meet the needs of flexibility at the airport.”

New JFK Terminal 1 is scheduled to open at the start of the 2026 World Cup, when some games are held at the Metlife Stadium in East Radford, New Jersey, about 30 miles away.

Etian said that more than half of the JFK airlines change the stations in the coming years due to construction.

One thing referred to in the new design: “A station that is overwhelmed with light.” This means that there are no customs lines.

The departure hall, security corridors and customs will be at the same level of the three -floor station, which features a wall of oblique windows. It is assumed that its design, under the leadership of the architectural engineering company, is supposed to have a butterfly image, while dividing the body to the bottom of the center.

Artrain, which connects airport and parking stations with train stations in Queens, is already through the construction site and will stop at the station when the facility is opened.

JFK reform also includes road improvements around the airport, as traffic crawled around the largest center in the region for years.

Mid-2016 Open in Terminal 1 will include departure and arrival areas and the first 14 gates, all of which are able to receive wide-body planes used on long flights, and will have a capacity for 14 million passengers annually.

There will be 23 gates -22 broad body gates and one narrow gate-aircraft such as Airbus A320 or Boeing 737S-when the rest of the project is completed, currently scheduled for 2030.

The final version of Terminal 1 will also have more than 300,000 square feet of spaces, retail, hall and entertainment, with more than half, 180,000 square feet, only for retail and eating.

One of the coding said that the airport will be the only one in the United States with shopping free of cash and meat. In general, customers will perform exempt from customs duties that are returned to them before riding their trips, but in this coordination, they can take them immediately.

The new station will also have its MicroGrid, with solar panels on the surface, which the developer said will enable the attachment to “flexible flexibility and maintenance of 100 % operations (from the station) in the event of energy disorders.”