Narrative:

Aircraft X inbound landing runway 4R; followed immediately by aircraft Y also landing runway 4R. Very similar sounding call signs; including both being heavy aircraft. This creates a very unsafe situation; especially since both landing aircraft need to hold short of the inboard runway and one of the aircraft could have easily taken the crossing instruction for the other aircraft.advise airlines of the situation so they might change accordingly.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: JFK Tower Controller reported possible issues with similar sounding call sign aircraft on final.

Narrative: Aircraft X inbound landing Runway 4R; followed immediately by Aircraft Y also landing Runway 4R. Very similar sounding call signs; including both being heavy aircraft. This creates a very unsafe situation; especially since both landing aircraft need to hold short of the inboard runway and one of the aircraft could have easily taken the crossing instruction for the other aircraft.Advise airlines of the situation so they might change accordingly.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.