Chapter 3 The Transportation System - New York Metropolitan ...

Chapter 3TWA Flight Center designed by Eero Saarinen, JFK Airport, New York City5. Air TravelAIRPORTSIn 2010, over 104 million air passengerspassed through the Port Authorityof New York and New Jersey’s major airports– John F. Kennedy International(JFK), LaGuardia and Newark LibertyInternational (Newark) – in 2010. JFKInternational Airport was used by over46.5 million commercial passengers in2010, while LaGuardia Airport was usedby nearly 24 million passengers. In August2010, JFK and LaGuardia airportshad an average of nearly 1,100 scheduleddaily nonstop departures.Commercial air travel is available at fourairports within the NYMTC planningarea: JFK Airport and LaGuardia Airport,both in New York City and bothoperated by the Port Authority of NewYork & New Jersey; Westchester CountyAirport near White Plains, operated byWestchester County; and Long IslandMacArthur Airport in Suffolk County,operated by the Town of Islip. Althoughoutside the NYMTC planning area,Newark Liberty International Airportin New Jersey is the metropolitan area’sother major airport. Stewart InternationalAirport, near Newburgh in OrangeCounty, serves areas to the northand west of the NYMTC planning area.Teterboro Airport in New Jersey is perhapsthe region’s best-known general andcorporate aviation airport. General aviationreliever airports service smaller andslower aircraft and thus relieve congestionat the major commercial airports. Inaddition, Republic Airport, BrookhavenAirport, Gabreski Airport and SpadaroAirport in Suffolk County also servegeneral aviation traffic. Taken together,these airports are among the busiest inthe nation.Air freight facilities are available to privatecarriers at JFK and Newark airports.Both FedEx and UPS operate parcel hubsat Newark Airport, but JFK maintains itsprominence as one of the nation’s largestair cargo facilities by volume. Located inone of the busiest regions in the worldfor goods transport by air, these airportsprovide intermodal freight facilities tohandle and transfer goods to and fromother cities, and to local distributioncenters, warehouses, and customers.AirTrain / JFK is an automated rapidtransit system serving JFK airline terminals,parking lots, hotel shuttle areasand rental car facilities, and connectingthe airport to the MTA transit system.AirTrain / JFK set an annual record forridership in 2011, carrying approximately5.5 million passengers – more thandouble the 2.6 million passengers carriedby the system in 2004, its first full yearof operation. This rail line provides connectionsto the NYC Subway system andthe LIRR at Jamaica.Although outside the NYMTC planningarea, in November 2007 the Port3-26 Plan 2040: NYMTC Regional Transportation Plan