First Flight from JFK Airport

Date: July 1, 1948 • Location: Springfield Gardens, United States

The first flight departed New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport, then known as New York International Airport.

John F. Kennedy International Airport is the primary international airport serving the New York metropolitan area. It is located on the southwestern shore of Long Island, in Queens, New York City, bordering Jamaica Bay. It is the busiest of the three airports in the New York airport system, the sixth-busiest airport in the United States. The airport, which covers 5,200 acres (2,104 ha), is the largest in the New York metropolitan area. Nearly 100 airlines operate from JFK Airport, with nonstop or direct flights to destinations on all six permanently inhabited continents.