TWA Flight Center building would be used by the TWA Hotel

Trans World Airlines Flight Center

U.S. National Register of Historic Places

NYC Landmark

The terminal's head house in 2010

Snapshot: The new Paris Cafe at the former T.W.A. terminal at Kennedy International Airport in New York. The swooping Eero Saarinen landmark has opened as a hotel. On July 27, 2015, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced in a press conference that the TWA Flight Center building would be used by the TWA Hotel, a 505-room hotel with 40,000 square feet of conference, event, or meeting space. The new hotel is estimated to cost $265 million and open in 2019. The public will be able to visit the hotel's 10,000-square-foot observation deck.[143] Groundbreaking for the hotel occurred on December 15, 2016.[144]