Airbus A380 of Emirates Airline at John F. Kennedy International Airport. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

By Thomas Tracy

Port Authority cops locked up a 19-year-old nincompoop who texted a terror threat to Emirates Airlines at Kennedy Airport, officials said Thursday.

Michael Perez of the Bronx sent the threatening message Wednesday afternoon to the manager of the carrier’s security firm, officials said.

“Blow up Emirates Up,” Perez redundantly wrote, they said.

The security manager quickly referred the threat to Port Authority investigators, who tracked down and arrested Perez within five hours – even though he had masked his phone number, sources said.

“He used some sort of filtering device, but the number that came up was only one degree removed from his actual number,” according to a Port Authority source, who said Perez may have worked briefly with the security company.

When detectives showed up at Perez’s home, they realized he didn’t have any weapons or bomb-making materials, sources said.