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JetBlue and the city made good on their deal last year, by celebrating the start of construction of a new terminal at JFK. And the new 26 gate terminal will be connected to the famous Terminal Five, long closed for air traffic, more recently the scene of some art debauchery. The new terminal will let JetBlue essentially double the number of their flights from JFK. Cool your jets for now (or use your working brakes!) - the terminal won't open until 2009. But the city is glad to welcome thousands of jobs, in both short-term construction and permanents ones at the terminal.
Enplaned has renderings of the new terminal plan. The famed Terminal Five will be "preserved as a retail and food outlet for JetBlue passengers." Our Spidey sense says that little "Terminal Five" keychains being created, with hopes to market it to all the JetBlue and Eero Saarinen fanatics alike. But you'll get some flying from Terminal Five satisfaction: JetBlue is building seven temporary gates there, for an interim. And there are some beautiful Terminal Five photographs are at lightningfield.
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One of my earliest travel memories is walking down those long tubes to the jetways. As a little child they seemed to stretch on forever. I was lucky enough to repeat the walk (only the second time in my life) very shortly before the terminal was closed and TWA was already in bankruptcy. It's a beautiful, inspirational piece of architecture. I hope Jet Blue understands the piece of aviation history they now own and respects it as the unique jewel in their crown that it is. I could see it becoming a corporate symbol along the lines of the Chrysler Building if properly promoted.
I've always dreamed of working at the desk of an airport terminal. Thank god for these thousands of jobs.
The thing with the TWA terminal was that it seemed like it was from the future, or the cool '60s version of it. Now airports are big ugly and functional and all look the same. Modern air travel has the traveler wondering is this Newark or is it Peoria, or perhaps Heathrow? Why is the current state of public architecture so awful? Just look at that crushed soda can design of the so-called Freedom Tower, which looks like it will wind up being a vertical Westway. Just rebuild the old ones, but taller and be done with it.
My dad was a captain at TWA for 30 years. I grew up hanging out at the terminal waiting to catch flights and always loved the little tiles that covered the wide subtle steps. It was a really glamourous place... I saw so many celebrities .. Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, Farrah Fawcett, Michael Caine, Warren Beatty...
I miss those days of sophisticated travel when the upper deck of the plane was a lounge and bar, when people dressed up to travel, and when people were generally polite. Occassionally I travel for work now and am always dissappointed with how people treat airport terminals and personel as if they are at Port Authority, they are an angry, frustrated and ugly inside and out bunch of people.
Perhaps if beautiful terminals, true works of art are built with thoughtful design, just maybe people will rise to its level and the romance of travel - the actual act of travelling - will return.
I know where you're coming from, Ali, but the "romance" of air travel will never return. It's hard to be romantic when you have to take your shoes off and let strangers rifle through your luggage in plain sight of everybody else. Sad, but it's the way of the world that popularity and elegance are always inversely proportional to each other.
For what it's worth, I always wear a jacket (and usually a tie) when traveling. Just because everyone else is swathed in sweatclothes doesn't mean you can't class the joint up a bit.