Just like the TWA Hotel, whenever I'm flying in and out of JFK, I visit the TWA Flight Center as…read morewell. Have been doing so for years (almost ever since the reopening). But, you guessed it, never reviewed. Heck, I only recently reviewed the hotel like six months ago. It's because I have tons of pending draft reviews to work through. Anyway, I absolutely love this structure and the way the terminal was brought back to glory. The architecture and interior design are simply brilliant. Love the bar/restaurant, lounge, gift shop, Photo Booth!!!, historical uniform display, hair salon replica, offices replicas, tons of cool and vintage seating areas to stretch out and relax. Let's not forget taking a swim in the rooftop pool or having a cocktail in the Connie. To me, the flight center is pure perfection.

The Trans World Airline (TWA) Flight Center was designed by architect Eero Saarinen and it was…read moredescribed as being similar to a "Leonardo da Vinci flying machine". It was completed in 1962 and open for business. The original head house (aka: terminal building), operated as a functioning terminal until 2001. The exterior of the building, along with the interior, of the head house were declared landmarks in 1994. Moreover, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. Today it is part of the TWA hotel complex, but anyone can visit the flight center, lounges, gift shop, food court, and museum area. In addition to the original building, it has been partially surrounded by additional hotel buildings. Inside, the former terminal has been restored to its former glory. You can see the open three-level tall windows with amazing views of departing and arriving jets in the sunken lounge area. There are the tube-shaped, red-carpeted departure/arrival corridors that now lead to rooms in the hotel, but used to connect the gates. Now various places in the head house and flight center are museum-type displays for the former airline. It is a very interesting place for anyone to check out the displays and read about the history of TWA. Moreover, there are additional items to check out like the old cars and the huge Twister game. Whether you stay at the hotel or just need a few hours to kill on your layover...this is "something to do". Personal Note: I thoroughly enjoyed seeing everything in the flight center. It brought back so many wonderful memories. When I was a little girl, my family and I used to look forward to flying in and out of here back when my dad worked for the airlines. We loved this airport and mainly because of this terminal...it was fun and different. With the way they have restored it, it almost seems like I entered a time machine to another time. I am forever grateful they gave this building a new life. I hope other families make new memories and remember the old ones as I did. It's a very special place and there is nothing like it!

Another Decent Delta experience. This terminal feels a bit…read moreolder, but it still had some good food options. It's pretty Mid on the Delta/Airport experiences I've had to date.

Ok I am comparing this airport to other international airport I been thru…read more This has to be the worse terminal I have experienced. The departure deck was closed. That's understandable as of all the construction. Everyone had use arrivals lane and wait on the elevator almost 30 minutes to get to departure level.. I found the airline check in area organized and easy to navigate thru. Now TSA at this terminal is like a Abbot and Costello routine. They seem not be coordinated or can work as a unit. It's never a pre-check line always told is a staffing issue. After 10 years you think they have resolved how rotate or reassign staff based on flight demands. The bathrooms are the worse I have seen. Extremely small stall luggage barely fits. I saw no bidets that most international Asian and Middle East airports have even if domestic. The waiting gate area needs more power ports. They also need replace seating that's worn and peeling. If you want to have world class facilities and be the face of NY or even US they need to go look at Incheon ,Hong Kong,Dubai ,or Singapore as example of a quality and classy terminal. You are not charged for luggage cars, floors are spotless,waiting areas are not plan or blah, and decent shopping and food offerings.

Very quick and efficient when you go through the check point. No hold up, no hassle and the folks…read morewere pretty chill for security folks. Though I'm not overly impressed with JFK itself, the security team and TSA are doing a damned fine job and they take a lot of heat for it. Keep up the good work.

Friendly, thorough, but not so quick…read more.. The not-so-quick part is 10/90...10% TSA and 90% your fellow passengers. Folks...when you are standing in a security line and you know you have to take off your shoes, belt, take things out of your pockets, etc. and take out electronics...why don't you just do it? Why wait on the TSA folks to tell you? They are doing the best they can by basically herding folks through there while thoroughly checking every bag and every person for our safety as a whole. This is not a game...help the process! For extra entertainment, two people in front of us took off their shoes just before the conveyor and then put their items on the conveyor and just walked away to go through the screening. Hello!...what about your crap? Their shoes became a tripping hazard for everyone behind them and finally got kicked out of the way. They didn't push forward their bags and personal items...what the heck? Then TSA is trying to figure out whose bags and shoes they belong to. They come back with the attitude that someone else should have taken care of it. Huh? Who?...Me?...My kid?...I don't think so! We don't touch other people's personal items. Just my opinion, but when you pull crap like this...I wish, I wish, I wish TSA would pull those folks aside and make them wait to re-enter the queue. I realize we all may forget things in the madness, but you can tell the difference between folks that forget and those that just expect someone else to do it for them. But wait, doesn't stop there...on the other side...they stood in front of the conveyor to take their do-da time putting things back in their bags while the trays are backing up...and they just stood there...why? Waiting on the dang shoes they left behind! Boo! They wouldn't move or get out of the way, not even with a polite "excuse me" to let other folks get their things, which makes you have to push through to get your belongings. UGH! A few TSA folks were overseeing things and I know they are busy watching, but a simple "move to the side" that takes a second or two could have moved things along quicker and would have been awesome to help fellow passengers. Aside from this...it's like a well-oiled machine. A bit of advice I have for every traveler is to talk to the TSA folks. They are doing a thankless job by choice to ensure the safety of all of us. It's an important job! A simple "hello" or "how are you?" goes a long way. I agree that in some places in the USA they could definitely be friendlier and often on a power trip, but this is not one of those places, or at least not on the day we went through. The folks here were friendly and just trying to get you where you are going or need to be.

T-4, I'm really feeling you these days. You've gone from a lackluster terminal that was practically…read moreSoviet to a place that I actually look forward to spending that requisite 2 hours for an international flight I love that it affords you the ability to get some serious movement in before an 8 hour + flight. I may looking on the bright side here, but seriously, it's good for you. You'll get those 10K steps in before being immobile in a seat for hours. There are really good options for food and drink plus an array of airport lounges like the Capital One Lounge which I really liked. There is Eataly for god's sake! How can you complain about any of this? Do you remember what T-4 used to be like? The gates seem to offer good seating with outlets galore and even some lounge chairs that recline if you wish to get some Zs in before that too long time you're about to be suffering in coach.

Usually fly out of LaGuardia, but no direct flights to Porland, OR so had to come to JFK. First…read moretime at Delta Terminal and it was huge. Be prepared to get some exercise walking from TSA to the gate. I was trying to find Capital One Lounge and got kind of lost. By the time I checked into the Lounge, one of the staff informed me that it was a twenty-minute walk from Lounge to the actual gate. Acquired lots of step walking to the gate then back to find the lounge and then back to the gate to depart. Terminal is gorgeous with lots of eateries and areas to shop but it is definitely a hike of you are further away. Coming back got lost finding the Air Train. Thank goodness someone was able to give me directions. It's like a maze here. Was in one area and had to take escalator and then go up and down to get to Air Train. I will stick with LaGuardia unless there are no direct flights then JFK will do.

Quality/Quantity - We flew Alaska on this trip. Easy in and out. SFO to JFK…read more No nonsense on this trip. My daughter dropped us off at the airport, we lounged, and then hopped on our plane. We got off our plane, grabbed our luggage and started our vacation. We did not pay extra for our airplane food and instead brought our own. Well my wife did. I don't really eat when flying. This and Hawaiian used to be our airline when going to the Hawaiian islands. But we have been flying Southwest since they added that route. Now that Southwest has really gone downhill, we might be changing back to Alaska and Hawaiian. This is my buddy's favorite airline to Las Vegas from SFO. Ambiance - JFK Terminal 8 has 60+ shops and restaurants. Many of which take online orders. 38 relaxation or lounge options. We did not get a chance to visit the lounge, we just went straight to our hotel after getting off the plane. Alaskan Airlines - A small plane, think Southwest size. Wifi available. 342 planes. 128 destinations. Service - Mostly online. From booking to paying, including our baggage payment and check-in. 24 hour online check-in for our flight. Price - We pay extra for direct flights. We pay extra to select our seats; our assigned seats cost as much as our plane tickets, lol. $550 for two. But it was worth it for me to NOT start the vacation wrong. Owner Comment - Congrats on all your success since 1944.

I've gone through this terminal a few times and unfortunately I had a pretty terrible experience on…read moremy last trip. I had a longer layover so I visited another lounge in another terminal and left about 1.5 hours to get back through to T8 and my flight. From terminal to terminal was fast and easy, maybe 10 minutes. This is where the problems started. It was a Sunday evening and TSA was really short staffed. I had pre check and was at the front of the line but because they started routing other passengers through our line I waited 45 minutes just to get past security and almost missed my flight! Everyone was pretty nervous. There was a lack of management and leadership or care to get things resolved at the lines. Once you got to the screening areas it was a little faster but I had to run to my gate which wasn't that close. I don't know that I'd ever risk trying to go to another lounge like that again or if I did I'd try to leave a lot earlier and save myself the hassle of that stress.

Well I didn't really have a choice for what terminal I wanted to use but this one was okay. It's…read moreone of the older ones and there is some construction. Check in was super fast, TSA only took 15 minutes. Friendly TSA workers and thankfully there's a Dunkin except they have no frozen drinks. There isn't much to do fortunately there's free wifi and tons of places to charge your phone and tablet.

The absolute worst Terminal in NYC. No pre-check. 6 gates max that services maybe 4 different…read moreairlines, mainly budget airlines, which I'm not surprised. The food choices are also garbage. This place puts pre-renovated LaGuardia to shame.

Under a ton of work but not in a bad way... ready to see what's to come at Terminal 5! Love flying…read moreout of here because it's where JetBlue is. Only downside was the long line at the Dunkin' got my iced tea for the flight though so we're all good!

I travel a lot... This is by far the worst fucking airport I've ever been to in my entire life. The…read morestaff are extraordinarily rude. Have absolutely no care or regard for anyone but themselves. When you politely walk up to somebody asking for help they treat you like you're an absolute inconvenience. Shove you off as quickly as possible and everybody just seems to have a massive stick up their ass! 10 out of 10 do not recommend. I've never experienced such atrocious customer service in my life.. AND I just came back from Türkiye where manners are absolutely non existent. This airport needs to teach their employees what customer service means, their parents obviously didn't teach them any manners. People manning counters and "helping" people with issues they are experiencing online have the worst attitudes and the folks cleaning the restrooms and pushing the wheelchairs are the kindest and most helpful. WILD. DO BETTER.

Functional, it's the word I'll use for terminal 2. It's obviously old, 2 levels and feels…read moreoppressive in it's construction. It gets full of people quickly and the gates are small with seating that says it charges your cell phone, but does not, because the power supply is unplugged. There is a central hub for eating, several small gift stores, but none that supplied antacids for upset stomach.

Convenience is one of the top most things I look for in any airport. The bathrooms were clean and…read moretidy - I usually judge places based on how clean they keep their restrooms. It was pretty easy to navigate through in and out of the airport comparison to LAX or any other bigger airports. The security lines are not ridiculously long and all the security personnel are very patient and nice. Only time I had to wait for a security check - wait being less than 15 minutes. There were decent amount of food/drink/coffee places available within the airport. Wish they had more charging stations by the seating area.

They say these two airports aren't far from each other. But nothing can be further from the truth…read more Traffic makes all the difference. So make sure when booking your flights you know what part of NYC you want to get into. I flew in for the US Open. So this airport is literally minutes from Queens. Headed to Manhattan? Make sure you go to La Guardia. I really liked this airport because it was so convenience clean, and you felt easy easing into New York. Baggage claim was straightforward and I love their duty free shops.

On my way to Paris! The journey has officially begun! Ready…read morefor good food, beautiful sights, unforgettable memories, and a little Paris adventure. Before we even took off, we received outstanding customer service from Sascha at the Delta check-in counter. I hope I'm spelling her name correctly! She was extremely attentive, patient, helpful, and made our check-in experience so much easier. It's always nice to start a trip with someone who genuinely takes the time to make sure you're taken care of. Thank you, Sascha, for starting our Paris trip off on such a positive note! Mixed Bag This Verdict: Paris hasn't even started yet, and the customer service is already giving 5-star energy! Paris, here we come!