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New York John F. Kennedy

New York, US.

Code

JFK

Position

40.640, -73.779

Runway

3,460 m paved from 1945, 4,423 m paved from 1969

Capacity

About 10,499 movements a week, 119 stands, terminal generation 3

Weather

Worst month loses about 1.6% of flights

Confidence

estimated (to be verified). Coordinates agree with published sources to within about 2.5 km. Other figures are estimates unless the evidence below says otherwise.

Source: JFK article and ATA Leading U.S. Airports: 28.9 million passengers in 1985 (exact), about 28.8 million in 1994. Terminals were named for airlines until the early 1990s; Eastern lost its terminal when it stopped in January 1991. Slot controlled under the High Density Rule; slots tradable from 1 April 1986. Capacity raised above the real throughput to carry the traffic the modelled airlines put through this airport (see docs/research/era5-sim-notes.md item 8).