www.MetroAirportNews.com Serving the Airport Workforce and Local Communities November 2018 INSIDE THIS ISSUE TWA’s Lockheed Constellation Makes Trip to JFK Airport – On I-95 A vintage commercial airplane embarked on a long, slow journey from Maine to New York where it will be turned into a cocktail lounge. The long trip of the Lockheed Constellation, known as the “Connie,” kicked off Monday, Oc- Tyler Moss, TWA Hotel CEO went to Maine to supervise the reinstallation of the Connie 04 tober 7th at a send-off event Auburn-Lewiston Airport in Maine. The plane then departed JFK To Get Two New Terminals Tuesday morning and make its way over the next several days to New York on a tow truck. Decorated in authentic TWA livery, our Connie — whose fleet once served as Air Force One for President Dwight D. Eisenhower and broke the record for fastest nonstop trip from Burbank to New York with former TWA owner Howard Hughes at the helm in 1946 — deserves a victory lap before welcoming hotel guests into her cockpit. So, as with all things related to the TWA Hotel project, we looked to TWA’s rich history for inspiration. 15 Continued on page 3 JetBlue Teams Up With the Brooklyn Nets for Its Newest Special Livery EWR Celebrates Past, Present and Future With Ceremonial Groundbreaking Newark Airport which opened on October 1, 1928, was known as the first major airport in the New York-New Jersey metropolitan area. Newark was the first airport in the country with paved runways and an air traffic control 30 tower, and the second with a terminal building. After 9/11, the airport was renamed Newark JFK Airport’s Terminal 4 Liberty International Airport to honor those Welcomes Kenya Airways who lost their lives in the terrorist attacks. Construction of the one-million-square-foot terminal is centerpiece of Newark Liberty’s $2.7 billion modernization and redevelopment, Your Best Source and the project is expected to generate more than $4.6 billion in regional economic activity, for Local Airport create more than 23,000 jobs and nearly $1.9 billion in wages. Construction will take place in phases, with Employment partial operations resuming with 21 completed PAGE 34 gates by 2021. By 2022, the new building will be Port Authority Chairman Kevin O’Toole, NJ’s Senate President Steve Sweeney and other officials do the Continued on page 3 groundbreaking ceremony at the site of new Terminal One in Newark Liberty International Airport. LUXURY APARTMENTS FOR RENT REACHING NEW HEIGHTS IN JAMAICA,QUEENS The Jamaica skyline has been dramatically transformed and elegantly enhanced by the bold and sophisticated Alvista Towers. 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Ringston plane, built in 1956 and in service starting 1958, [email protected] does not fly anymore. Hundreds of Constella- tions were produced by Lockheed in the 1940s ASSOCIATE EDITOR - LIFESTYLE & and 1950s. But only 44 Starliners were built. COMMUNITY RELATIONS The plane flew for Trans World Airlines for Roberta Dunn three years before flying around the Alaskan AARON FLACKE [email protected] wilderness as a bush pilot plane, said Tyler Technik bought the enthusiast’s three vintage ADVERTISING Morse, CEO of New York-based hotel owner planes with the hopes of restoring one. This Edward J. Garcia and operator MCR and Morse Development. year, Lufthansa ended up dismantling that res- [email protected] Morse’s company is building TWA Hotel. toration project and announced it would move Tanya Austin By the 1970s, the plane had become a drug- one of the planes to Germany to finish restora- [email protected] running plane in South America. “It had giant tion work. BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT cargo doors to fly pallets of marijuana around Now, the other plane long stored in Auburn MANAGER South America,” Morse said. is also set for a new adventure. Laura Mannino The plane was later abandoned in Honduras The plane will be towed on a flatbed over 300 [email protected] and brought to Florida in the 80s. An aircraft miles down I-95 while accompanied by a EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTOR enthusiast had it flown out to Maine with lengthy convoy, Morse said. It’ll reach speeds of Michael Baldini hopes of restoring it, but ran out of money. up to 50 miles per hour on the highway and as [email protected] The plane, one of four of its kind still in the low as a few miles an hour for sharp turn. Connie sitting roadside and under METROPOLITAN AIRPORT NEWS world, sat at the tarmac for years, Morse said. The rare airliner will end up inside the New wraps off the Throgs Neck Bridge. JFK International Airport A decade ago, German airline Lufthansa York airport, Terminal 5. ■ ERIK BLISS PO Box 300877 Jamaica, NY 11430 Tel: (347) 396-0904 Fax: (347) 474-7331 in 2017 and is functionally obsolete. the Garden State’s long-term economy,” said [email protected] EWR Celebrates Past, Terminal One, in its initial year of full opera- NJ Senate President Steve Sweeney. www.metroairportnews.com Present and Future tion by 2022, will be able to accommodate 13.6 Work on Terminal One will be phased to million passengers on three levels – with the minimize customer inconvenience. Airside im- Editorial contributions With Ceremonial should be addressed to: potential for further expansion – and will fea- provements for planes entering and exiting ture 33 common-use gates to handle larger air- gates at the new Terminal One are also in the Metropolitan Airport News, JFK International Groundbreaking craft within one million square feet of terminal plans, including a new aeronautical taxi-lane Airport, PO Box 300877, Jamaica, NY 11430, Continued from page 1 and must be accompanied by return postage. space, as well as state-of-the-art check-in, se- network to increase efficiency in operations. Publisher assumes no responsibility for safety fully open with 12 more gates available and a curity and baggage claim areas. Addition of dual taxi-lanes, a project to be done of artwork, photographs, or manuscripts. pedestrian bridge for AirTrain Newark riders This project will mean tens of thousands of in conjunction with the terminal work, also Permissions: Material in this publication to access the terminal. high-paying construction jobs and a boost to will help get planes to and from gates faster. ■ may not be reproduced, stored in a retrieval Port Authority leaders and numerous system, or transmitted in any form or by any elected officials celebrated Newark Liberty In- means (electronic, mechanical, photocopy- ternational Airport’s (EWR) rich 90-year his- ing, recording, or otherwise) without the prior tory today by turning their sights to the future, written permission of the publisher. highlighting the development of the airport’s The views and opinions expressed in Metro- new Terminal One. The new facility will pro- politan Airport News are those of the authors vide a world-class experience for fliers with the and advertisers, and do not necessarily reflect the policy or position of the publisher. Articles replacement of the outdated Terminal A. presented in this publication are for general Port Authority Chairman Kevin O’Toole information and educational purposes and do and Executive Director Rick Cotton, joined by not constitute legal or financial advice. state and local officeholders that included Sen- ©Copyright 2018 by Metropolitan Airport News ate President Steve Sweeney and Assembly All rights reserved Printed in the USA Speaker Craig Coughlin at the site of the termi- nal construction at Newark Liberty, praised the project as a vital Port Authority investment in the state and region’s economy and trans- portation infrastructure. The current Termi- nal A, which opened in 1973, was designed with a maximum capacity of nine million passen- Exterior, Frontage Roadway Network gers a year. It served more than 11 million fliers 4 Metropolitan Airport News | November 2018 www.MetroAirportNews.com JFK To Get Two New Terminals Vision Plan determines that Terminal One Group and JetBlue take lead position in development of multi-airline terminals Two new international terminals will be built developed by JetBlue.