Wall Street Journal published an article last month about Port Authority’s plan to reopen Terminal 5 as a boutique hotel. They’re currently looking for a developer to build a hotel that would be situated between JetBlue’s building and Eero Saarinen’s iconic TWA Terminal, a structure that came to symbolize the romance in air travel. The terminal will act as a lobby for the hotel filled with shops and restaurants. How great would it be to reinvigorate this dormant but landmark building into a functioning business? The design geek in us wanted to see this happen but the realist in us quickly turned to skepticism. Modern air travel is anything but romantic. Terminals are transitory spaces, people really don’t want to spend any more time there than they have to. A view of JFK’s tarmac isn’t quite the selling point either. Other than stranded travelers will the hotel draw enough interest from visitors? Can the history of Terminal 5 be enough to make the hotel a destination? We want to think it can but there are too many opposing components that say it just won’t work. Unless Balazs decides to take a stab at it.