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...world's largest commercial airport opened last week. Its official name was New York International Airport, but millions of New Yorkers knew it as "Idlewild," the name of a golf course that it displaced. The 4,900-acre airport (on Long Island, 38 minutes' drive from Manhattan's Airlines Terminal) covers an area as large as Manhattan Island from 42nd Street to the Battery; its 35 all-weather krypton flash approach lights (3,300,000,000 peak beam candlepower) are the brightest ever made by man. Idlewild's ten miles of paved runways (six strips completed...
...Idlewild's first day, only one airplane-a single-motored, four-seated Stinson-landed on the field. Traffic remained slow; in three days the port grossed a total of $13.53 from aircraft operations. One reason for the lack of planes was a squabble over fees between the major U.S. airlines and the Port of New York Authority, which runs Idlewild and the two other major fields (La Guardia and Newark Airports) in the New York area...
Although the Authority had never run an airport, its reputation is such that New York City, five months ago, was glad to give it a lease on money-losing LaGuardia field and on New York International (Idlewild) field, which has proved a financial headache to the city. Last week, Newark turned over Newark Airport to the Authority on a rental basis that looked fine beside the $139,825 Newark had lost on its field last year. (Newark will get a minimum rental of $100,000 a year for 50 years...
...merely bigger airports but a number of airports which split up the traffic. As a start, the low-traffic Newark port will handle 52 of the flights now using LaGuardia every day. Eventually, the Authority hopes that Newark will handle all the Metropolitan area's long-haul traffic; Idlewild, which will be opened by July, will handle transatlantic flights, and LaGuardia will be left only domestic, short-haul traffic. The Authority expects to spend $250,000,000 in the next five to seven years to develop the airports...
...passengers' lot has also been improved. When Cullman first inspected the field, he concluded that "they treat them worse than at Haifa." Waiting rooms were cleaned up, customs procedures speeded. But the passengers were still not happy enough for Cullman. At Idlewild they will have a hotel and, he hopes, a sports arena and an auditorium. By 1960 Cullman expects all three ports to be shopping and amusement centers, employing a combined total of 37,000 and earning enough from their concessionaires to pay for their own development...