![]() Movable gangplanks would move out to the aircraft and people could board directly from the glassed-in central lobby. Six aircraft, a mix of propeller aircraft and jets, would parallel park under the canopy. Instead, aircraft would park directly around the main building, thereby "bringing the plane to the passenger", as a marketing slogan at the time proclaimed. Architects Walther Prokosch of Tippets-Abbett-McCarthy-Stratton, and Emanuel Turano of Ives, Turano & Gardner Associated Architects, set out to design a signature building befitting America's de facto flag carrier. To add to the challenge, the site had a particularly short landside frontage due to the strong curvature of Terminal City in that location. Pan Am's site was only 17 acres (6.9 hectares). Thus, Pan American World Airways, as the premier US international carrier, and TWA, as the number two, were allocated the sites immediately adjacent to the International Arrivals Bulding (IAB) in order to minimize the distance their aircraft needed to be moved between international arrivals and their departure terminals. This meant that all international flights had to arrive at the IAB, with the exception of Nassau, Bermuda and San Juan, Puerto Rico, which had pre-clearance facilities. Before 1970, only the International Arrivals Building (IAB) had Federal Inspection Facilities at New York's Idlewild Airport.
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