John F. Kennedy International Airport

Airport in Jamaica, Queens, New York City

John F. Kennedy International Airport (IATA: JFK, ICAO: KJFK, FAA LID: JFK) (colloquially referred to as JFK Airport, Kennedy Airport, New York-JFK, or simply JFK) is the main international airport serving New York City. The airport is the busiest of the seven airports in the New York airport system, the 13th-busiest airport in the United States, and the busiest international air passenger gateway into North America. Over 90 airlines operate from the airport, with nonstop or direct flights to destinations in all six inhabited continents.

SUMMARY

Airport type	Public +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Owner/Operator	Port Authority of New York and New Jersey +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Owner	City of New York +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Operator	Port Authority of New York and New Jersey +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Serves	New York metropolitan area +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Location	Jamaica, Queens, New York, U.S. +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Opened	July 1, 1948; 74 years ago (1948-07-01) +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Hub for	American Airlines Delta Air Lines +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Focus city for	JetBlue Norse Atlantic Airways Polar Air Cargo +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Time zone	EST (UTC−05:00) +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Elevation AMSL	13 ft / 4 m +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Coordinates	40°38′23″N 73°46′44″W +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Website	www.jfkairport.com +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

STATISTICS

Passengers	61,909,148 +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Aircraft operations	455,529 +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

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