Esperto: as for danger, I'll bet that you've never driven much within a city further south on the big river. And that report probably stated MO in error, instead of the really infamous East St. Louis, which is in Illinois.
Doesn't Jet Blue use JFK as a hub, for the overall operation, in contrast to Southwest's linear route systems?
AA717: about nine years ago in the STL Employee Cafeteria (underneath, near present Starbuck's?) , a family member watched as a cook dumped a full plastic bag of fries, still inside the sealed bag, into the frier! The cook said that it was easier and quicker that way. The observer and his partner decided not to eat the fries that day. Watch out for that LDA approach to 12R, which initially lines you up with 12L!! Or it did for a while.