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JetBlue wants to turn Eero Saarinen's iconic TWA terminal into a hotel

JetBlue wants to turn Eero Saarinen's iconic TWA terminal into a hotel

JetBlue Airlines—the one with free snacks and live television—is interested in getting into the hotel business, and it wants to kick things off with Eero Saarinen‘s swooping TWA Terminal at JFK Airport.

The Wall Street Journal reported that JetBlue and New York–based hotelier MCR Development are in “advanced negotiations” with the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey for the rights to turn the swooping structure into a modern hotel. While things seem promising, similar attempts have failed.

In 2013, hotelier André Balazs won the rights for a terminal-to-hotel conversion, but ultimately decided not to move forward with the project because of how long it would take to complete—he’s a busy guy and said he had more interesting things to pursue. After that episode, the bidding process was relaunched and JetBlue and MCR came out on top.

If this new plan doesn’t meet the same fate, the two companies plan to fill the terminal with 500 rooms, many of which will be occupied by frustrated fliers whose flights were cancelled and need a convenient place to stay before they catch the next flight at the crack of dawn. Honestly, having to spend a night in Saarinen’s masterpiece wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world.


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