See in the new JFK International Terminal at JFK Airport of $ 9.5 billion

It is far from complete, but the new, $ 9.5 billion Terminal 1 at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York is formed. Its first phase will be found in the middle of 2026.

It will replace the current terminal that opened in 1998.

The terminal, which will be the largest of JFK, is now meteorological. The luggage luggage conveyor structures are installed and you can find out future ticket counters where customers flying carriers like Turkish Airlines, Air New Zealand, Etihad Airways, Air China, Taiwan’s Airlines and others will determine their ladies and will determine their ladies and will determine their ladies and more will determine their luggage and more will determine their ladies and more will determine their ladies and more will determine their ladies and more will determine their ladies and more will determine their ladies and more will determine their ladies and more will determine their luggage.

The terminal – set to be approximately the size of the two new terminals at Laguardia Airport, which have opened over the past decade, will only be dedicated to international travelers, whom developers have said is key to design.

“From the first pen to paper … we meant the international client,” said Jennifer Aument, CEO of the new terminal, the project developing the project at a press conference at the airport last month.

CNBC and other media examined the progress of the construction, led by Aument, in early July as part of what the company said it would probably be among the latest Hardhat Tours at the facility before the opening day.

The project is part of the New York Port Administration and a major overhaul of JFK in New Jersey. In addition to Terminal 1, the current terminal 7, which is currently home to Alaska Airlines And Ireland Aer Lingus will be demolished for a new Terminal 6, whose first gates will open next year. For comparison, it was about $ 8 billion at the Laguard Airport.

As air traffic increases, airports across the country compete to replace the aging infrastructure.

US airports need at least $ 173.9 billion to improve infrastructure from this year to 2029, according to a report earlier this year by the International Airport Council in America.

“These investments – an average of nearly $ 35 billion a year – are essential for accommodation of airlines and passengers, improving operational efficiency, improving the quality of services and customer experience and the implementation of airport sustainability,” the announcement said.

The new JFK Terminal 1 will open around the start of the 2026 World Cup, when some matches will be held at the Metlife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, about 30 miles away.

More than half of JFK airlines have changed terminals in the coming years due to construction, Aumet said.

One thing she pointed to with the new design: “Terminal flooded with light.” This means that there are no customs lines on the basement.

The departure hall, the protective canvases and the customs will be at the same level of the three -storey terminal, which has a wall of sloping windows. Its design, led by the architectural firm Gensler, is supposed to hang the image of a butterfly, with the body dividing the terminal in the middle.

Airtrain, which connects the airport terminals and parking lots to the Queens in Queens, is already passing through the construction site and will stop at the terminal when the facility opens.

The main repair of JFK also includes improvements to the roadway around the airport, where traffic has been going through the largest center in the region for years.

The opening of Terminal 1 in the middle of 2026 will include the departure and arrival areas and the first 14 gates, all capable of obtaining wide -body aircraft used for long -distance flights. It will have a capacity of 14 million passengers a year.

There will be 23 gates-22 gates with a wide body and one gate with a narrow body for planes such as the Airbus A320 or Boeing 737s-when the rest of the project is completed, it is currently scheduled for 2030.

The final version of Terminal 1 will also have more than 300,000 square meters of dining room, retail, salon and entertainment space, with more than half, 180,000 square feet, only for retail and dining room.

Aenter said the airport would be the only one in the US with duty -free shopping. Usually, customers make duty -free purchases that return to them before they get on their flights. However, in this format, they can take purchases immediately.

The new terminal will also have its own microrette, with solar roof panels, which the developer said it would allow the facility to have “complete resistance and maintenance of 100% (from terminal) operations in the event of power interruption”.

Correction: Previous version of this story wrongly the size of the terminal.