JetBlue ended up subleasing six gates at Kennedy's Terminal 6 from United Airlines while lobbying the agency with increasing urgency for permission to take over the terminal.
They suddenly found themselves infiltrated by a large and highly coordinated group of what appeared to be chic aliens, appearing out of nowhere to take over the terminal.
So annoyed that they began formulating their plan to take over the terminal, which is protected by the company's private security force, as well as the Nigerian police, the paramilitary mobile police, the army and the navy.
Early on Monday morning, gunmen of the Donetsk Peoples Republic arrived at the airport and took over the terminal building, prompting the Ukrainian military based there to issue an ultimatum to the rebels to lay down their weapons and leave.
We're down quickly, the pilot does that little prop-reversal thing that halts the plane on a dime, and we chug over toward the terminal, where we stop several yards from the building.
Artist Evan Roth took over the computer terminals at a Chinatown Internet cafe for his debut piece of internet-based art.
Pro-Russian troops have taken over the ferry terminal at Kerch in far-eastern Crimea that operates services to Russia.
A circus-like atmosphere reigned as reporters, photographers, cameramen, producers and every media animal known to man or woman literally took over the main terminal's second floor and roof to monitor events.
Its chief inspiration, in fact, were the letters spelling out PORT AUTHORITY BUS TERMINAL over the terminal's Eighth Avenue doors.
