John F. Kennedy International Airport JFK

Arriving at JFK can be a Hit or Miss...I arrived here from Manchester on a Delta Airlines flight and this terminal is extremely busy in the Afternoon with all the European flights. I can Recall the Immigration Queue for non-american citizens as a large and an extremely slow moving one as each person is electronically fingerprinted. I entered the queue at about 2pm and got passed immigration by 4pm...I missed my connecting flight but Delta staff quickly got me set onto a flight 7 hours after my booked flight. Luckily I didn't stand in the queue 2 hours as I knew I would have problems with my visa so I told this to a member of staff and they took me straight to ...  Read the complete review

After arriving at JFK Airport after a 8 hour flight, I find it to be a bit of a pain really. You seem to have to walk for ages to get through to where the luggage claim area is and then more walking to get to customs. I feel the walking is to prepare you for when you get into the city. Once you arrive at customs, it is a very long queue of people, all waiting for one of the at most 10 customs officers to check you through. We had to stand in queue for around 30 minutes to get through this bit. You are then allowed to leave the airport and continue on with your holiday. It's all a bit underwhelming once you get through. A small shop in the exit lounge and ...  Read the complete review

On November 22, 1963 the 35th president of the United States of America, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was murdered in Dallas, Texas. Afterwards his name become associated with many monuments in the US such as NASA's Cape Kennedy and, of course, the international airport in New York known as JFK. Would that I could tell you that this airport is alive and well, but unfortunately, I have come to mourn JFK Airport, not to praise it. The Complex: What a perfect word that is, isn't it? Actually, the basic idea of JFK isn't all that complicated. There are eight major buildings all positioned in a circle. Inside the circle are roads and parking lots. This wouldn't be ...  Read the complete review

Considering that New York is one of the biggest 24 hour cities in the world I have been disspaointed twice by the same airport. Destination wise, the airport is really good, there are 9 seperate terminals that make up JFK several of which are specifically for one or two airlines with the rest distributed around the other terminals. The airport itself is about 1 hour from Manhatten or about 25 miles and is in the borough of Queens. Getting a cab from the airport is easy once you find the taxi rank, and only use yellow cabs. There is a standard fee of $35 from the airport to Mahatten, but on the way back to the airport you must pay for time spent in ...  Read the complete review