Idelwild International Airport, as JFK used to be known, was opened on July 31, 1948 under the administration of New York City Mayor, Fiorello H. La Guardia. Covering over two thousand hectares, it became the largest airport in the United States. Its design was considered particularly unusual at the time since terminals and parking space were arranged in the middle of the airport. Airlines were also encouraged to build their own terminals, a unique concept at the time. The first jet service offered by an American airline, a Pan American Airways Boing 707, flew to London on October 26, 1958 in seven hours and twenty-seven minutes. In 1963 the airport was renamed John F. Kennedy Airport. During the 1970s and 1980s, JFK became the busiest cargo airport in the world, serving more than fifty-seven cargo airlines a year.The airport originally had ten terminals those have been consolidated into six today.

In 2017 57 million passengers used JFK Airport.

The following airlines fly to JFK Airport:

Aer Lingus

Aeroflot

Aerolíneas Argentinas

Aeroméxico

Aeroméxico Connect

Air China

Air Europa

Air France

Air India

Air Italy

Air Serbia

Alaska Airlines

Alitalia

All Nippon Airways

American Airlines

American Eagle

Asiana Airlines

Austrian Airlines

Avianca

Avianca Costa Rica

Avianca El Salvador

Azerbaijan Airlines

British Airways

Brussels Airlines

Cape Air

Caribbean Airlines

Cathay Pacific

Cayman Airways

China Airlines

China Eastern Airlines

China Southern Airlines

Copa Airlines

Delta Air Lines

Delta Connection

EgyptAir

El Al

Emirates

Ethiopian Airlines

Etihad Airways

Eurowings

EVA Air

Finnair

Hainan Airlines

Hawaiian Airlines

Iberia

Icelandair

Interjet

Japan Airlines

JetBlue

Kenya Airways

KLM

Korean Air

Kuwait Airways

LATAM Brasil

LATAM Chile

LATAM Ecuador

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LOT Polish Airlines

Lufthansa

Norwegian Air Shuttle

Philippine Airlines

Qantas

Qatar Airways

Royal Air Maroc

Royal Jordanian

Saudia

Singapore Airlines

South African Airways

Swiss International Air Lines

TAP Air Portugal

Thomas Cook Airlines

Turkish Airlines

Ukraine International Airlines

Uzbekistan Airways

Virgin Atlantic

VivaAerobus

Volaris

Volaris Costa Rica

WestJet

XiamenAir