The hope is to open them simultaneously this fall, said William R. DeCota, the aviation director of the Port Authority.
"One has to look ahead 10 to 20 years," said Steve Grossman, the Oakland aviation director.
Bill Hemmings, aviation director of green group Transport & Environment, said: "Airline claims that flying will now be green are a myth.
For William Fife, aviation director at DMJM & Harris, an engineering and design company, it was a defining moment.
In Philadelphia, the pilot of the downed aircraft, Kevin Donaldson, 42, arrived and was met by his wife, Bobbi, and Hank Scheltema, aviation director of the Baptist mission.
In June, the authority's aviation director told Congress that if small planes were discouraged, cities like Des Moines, Ithaca, N.Y., and Knoxville, Tenn., would be cut off from New York.
"We're looking for a way to preserve the terminal that will breathe life into it for generations to come," said William R. DeCota, Port Authority aviation director.
The national civil aviation director, Branco Ferreira, said the flight crew included four Russians, but other officials said later that the crew members were four Ukrainians and an Angolan.
"Airlines have made a deliberate decision to forgo certain markets," said Sunil Harman, who was recently appointed aviation director of the Tallahassee Regional Airport after 17 years as the director of planning for Miami International Airport.
Nearly all the other airports also have more runways, often many more.According to Alan Lamond, Pascall+Watson's aviation director, this shows the effects of decades of indecision over expanding Heathrow or building a new London airport.
