JetBlue's Terminal Takes Wing
A fusion of panache and practicality, the $875 million facility will revive JFK's long-vacant TWA building -- and still handle 250 daily flights
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While most airlines areputting their passengers through the wringer -- less food, extra fees, and more seats crammed into the carriers' flying sardine cans -- JetBlue (JBLU) is making final plans to send its passengers through the "flight wing tubes" -- the famously glamorous passageways designed by Eero Saarinen in 1962 for the landmark TWA terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City.
Leonardo DiCaprio glided through this conduit in the film Catch Me If You Can, and the National Trust for Historic Preservation put it on its 2003 list of most endangered historic places -- yet it has sat empty since 2001, following TWA's demise.