NEW YORK CITY-British Airways is taking off from Queens…again. The company has leased 46,198 square feet of space at 2 Park Ave.--an art deco, Ely Jacques Kahn building in Manhattan--and will relocate to the spot in a matter of days. Cushman & Wakefield represented the building’s owner, PPF OFF Two Park Avenue Owner LLC, while CB Richard Ellis represented British Airways in the deal.

The lease is for a 10-year term and a CBRE spokesman tells GlobeSt.com that British Airways, which will occupy the entirety of the 11^th floor along with other members of its alliance, will use it for reservations call center operations. Tara Stacom, David E. Green, Mitchell Arkin and Whitten Morris at C&W were the owner’s reps and Joan Meixner and Brad Needleman at CBRE were the tenant’s reps. Sources say that asking rent was $48 per square foot, while the actual rent came in just below that figure.

Two Park sits a few blocks east of Penn Station and just south of Grand Central Terminal, a factor that made it an attractive location for the airline. “Among the factors which drew British Airways to 2 Park were the building’s transit-oriented location, large efficient floor plates and beautifully restored Art-deco lobby,” Stacom, a C&W vice chairman, says in a company release.