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Facilities
We occupy all of our facilities at each of the airports we serve under leases or other occupancy agreements.
Our agreements for terminal passenger service facilities, which include ticket counter and gate space, operations
support area and baggage service offices, generally have terms ranging from less than one year to five years, and
contain provisions for periodic adjustments of rental rates, landing fees and other charges applicable under the
type of lease. We also are responsible for maintenance, insurance, utilities and certain other facility-related
expenses and services. We have entered into use arrangements at each of the airports we serve that provide for
the non-exclusive use of runways, taxiways and other airport facilities. Landing fees under these agreements are
typically based on the number of landings and the weight of the aircraft.
Our primary focus cities include New York’s JFK, Boston, Long Beach, Orlando, Fort Lauderdale and San
Juan, Puerto Rico.
In November 2005, we executed a lease agreement with the PANYNJ for the construction and operation of
Terminal 5 which became our principal base of operations at JFK when we began to operate from it in
October 2008. The lease term ends on October 22, 2038, the thirtieth anniversary of the date of our beneficial
occupancy of this terminal, and we have a one-time early termination option five years prior to the end of the
scheduled lease term. In December 2010, we executed a supplement to this lease agreement for the Terminal 6
property adjacent to our operations at Terminal 5 for a term of five years, which provides certain use and
development rights.
Our operations at Boston’s Logan International Airport, or Logan, are based at Terminal C where we
operate 17 gates and 42 ticket counter positions, including 10 international ticket counters. In 2011, Massport
completed work that connected two concourses within Terminal C, centralizing the security checkpoint and
providing our customers the convenience of 14 contiguous gates.
Our West Coast operations are based at Long Beach Municipal Airport, or Long Beach, which serves the
Los Angeles area. We operate four gates at Long Beach. In 2010, the Long Beach Airport began work on
redevelopment efforts, including a new parking structure and new terminal, which is expected to open in 2013.
In Florida, our primary operations are at Orlando International Airport, or Orlando, and Fort Lauderdale-
Hollywood International Airport, or Fort Lauderdale. We operate from Terminal A in Orlando with eight
domestic and one international gate. In Fort Lauderdale, we operate from Terminal 3 with seven domestic gates.
Our operations in San Juan, Puerto Rico are based at Luis Muñoz Marin International Airport, or San Juan,
where we operate from Terminal C with preferential use of six gates and access to three additional gates.
We lease a 70,000 square foot aircraft maintenance hangar and an adjacent 32,000 square foot office and
warehouse facility at JFK to accommodate our technical support operations and passenger provisioning
personnel. The ground lease for this site expires in 2030. In addition, we occupy a building at JFK where we
store aircraft spare parts and perform ground equipment maintenance.
We also lease a training center at Orlando International Airport which is equipped with seven full flight
simulators, two cabin trainers, a training pool, classrooms and support areas. This facility is being used for the
initial and recurrent training of our pilots and in-flight crew, as well as support training for our technical
operations and airport crew. In addition, we lease a 70,000 square foot hangar at Orlando International Airport
which is used by Live TV for the installation and maintenance of in-flight satellite television systems and aircraft
maintenance. The ground leases for our Orlando support facilities expire in 2035.
As of December 31, 2011, our primary corporate offices were located in Forest Hills, New York, where we
occupy space under a lease that expires in 2012; our finance department was based in Darien, Connecticut, where
we occupy space under a lease that also expires in 2012. We have executed a 12 year lease for our new corporate
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