JetBlue Is Building Its Own Fort Lauderdale Bottleneck: Terminal 5 Now Slips To 2030

The most important number in Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport’s (FLL) Terminal 5 saga is not the nearly $400 million increase in the project’s spending ceiling, although that figure is difficult to ignore. The bigger problem for JetBlue Airways is that the airline is now trying to operate one of its largest stations with roughly 130 to 150 daily departures, while the five-gate terminal intended to give it more room is no longer expected to be substantially complete until 2030. What was supposed to be a near-term capacity solution has therefore become a long-term constraint.