Terminal 5 (New York City, New York)

Terminal 5 was originally the TWA hub terminal. The historic TWA Flight Center was designed by Eero Saarinen, sculpted as an abstract symbol of flight often described as "gull winged." It was completed in 1962 and is the airport's most famous landmark. It was built before the age of terrorism and hijackings. Gates in the terminal were close to the street and this made it difficult to create centralized ticketing and security checkpoints.

Following American Airlines' buyout of TWA in 2001, Terminal 5 went out of service. In December 2005, JetBlue, which had occupied the adjacent Terminal 6, demolished the peripheral air-side parts of Terminal 5 to build an expanded terminal that follows the conventional hub and spoke design with 26 gates. It was completed in 2008.

The historic Flight Center was restored as the lobby of a new hotel, the retro-themed TWA Hotel, which opened in 2019.
www.twahotel.com

Airlines and destinations as of March 2023:
Aer Lingus: Dublin, Manchester, Shannon
Cape Air: Lake Placid, Hyannis (seasonal), Martha’s Vineyard (seasonal), Nantucket (seasonal)
JetBlue: Aguadilla, Antigua, Aruba, Atlanta, Austin, Barbados, Bermuda, Boston, Buffalo, Burbank, Burlington, Cancún, Cartagena, Charleston, Chicago–O’Hare, Curaçao, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Fort Lauderdale, Fort Myers, Georgetown, Grand Cayman, Grenada, Guatemala, Guayaquil, Habana, Houston, Jacksonville, Kansas City, Kingston, Las Vegas, Liberia, London–Gatwick, London–Heathrow, Los Angeles, Los Cabos, Miami, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Montego Bay, Nashville, Nassau, New Orleans, Ontario, Orlando, Paris–CDG, Phoenix, Pointe-à-Pitre, Ponce, Port of Spain, Port-au-Prince, Providenciales, Puerto Plata, Puerto Vallarta, Punta Cana, Raleigh, Reno, Rochester, Sacramento, Saint Lucia, Saint Thomas, Salt Lake City, San Antonio, San Diego, San Francisco, San José, San Juan, Santiago de los Caballeros, Santo Domingo, Sarasota, Savannah, Seattle, Sint Maarten, Syracuse, Tampa, Vancouver, Washington–National, West Palm Beach, Worcester, Albuquerque (seasonal), Bozeman (seasonal), Hyannis (seasonal), Martha’s Vineyard (seasonal), Montrose (seasonal), Nantucket (seasonal), Palm Springs (seasonal), Portland (seasonal), San Jose (seasonal), Steamboat Springs (seasonal)

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