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JetBlue in Partnership to Open Hotel in Old TWA Terminal at JFK Airport

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Dennis Schaal

Photo Credit: The inside of old TWA Terminal at JFK, designed by architect Eero Saarinen. JetBlue and MCR Development plan to turn it into TWA Flight Center Hotel. Flickr.com / Corbin Keech

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Few international airports have an on-airport hotel but JFK will get one in 2018. The TWA Flight Center Hotel will be located near JetBlue's Terminal 5 and it will be a nice homage to the iconic airline. TWA, that is.

JetBlue is an experienced hotelier, having opened a boutique hotel for employees in Orlando, and now it has struck a partnership with MCR Development to open a hotel in the old TWA Terminal at JFK Airport. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which runs the three New York-area airports, is expected to approve JetBlue's selection at a meeting on Thursday. JetBlue would be a minority investor in the project. The prospect of MCR Development's work was first reported in April. MCR Development, which develops and manages hotels, has developed the High Line Hotel in Manhattan; numerous Courtyard by Marriott properties from Abilene, Texas, to Alexandria, Virginia, and sev

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