QUEENS, N.Y. – Rapidly growing Wings Financial FCU, one of a handful of credit unions serving the entire airline industry, announced yesterday it has flown into New York’s JFK International Airport with its own branch.
The $1.9 billion institution is the sixth credit union to land in Kennedy Airport, along with American Airlines FCU, which operates two branches there, FAA Eastern FCU, British Airways FCU, Peoples Alliance FCU (the former Pan Am employees credit union), and Xceed FCU, which is closing its Kennedy branch.
Wing’s new service center, located within the airport complex in the lobby of the United Airlines Cargo Building 22A, is scheduled to open in early January.
John Wagner, spokesman for Wings, said the nexus for the Kennedy branch is an affinity agreement for the credit union to serve employees of JetBlue Airways, which operates out of Kennedy, but one of the nation’s busiest air hubs provides many other opportunities. "It’s a huge opportunity for us. Kennedy is a city within a city," he told The Credit Union Journal yesterday.
Wings, based in Apple Valley, Minn., was originally sponsored by Northwest Airlines and has expanded over the last few years to serve anyone or their family who work in the air transport industry.
