LaGuardia Airport

LaGuardia Airport  () is an airport in the northern part of the New York City borough of Queens. The airport is on the edge of Flushing Bay and Bowery Bay.  It borders the neighborhoods of Astoria, Jackson Heights and East Elmhurst.

La Guardia is popular because of its location near to Manhattan. Although the airport is small in size, wide-body airliners once flew there often. The McDonnell Douglas DC-10 and Lockheed L-1011 were designed for use at LaGuardia.http://www.flightglobal.com/airspace/blogs/orion/archive/2010/11/19/how-the-last-star-was-born.aspx The Boeing 767-400ER is the largest airliner that once flew to LGA; from 2000 to 2005, Delta used the 764 with 285 seats. Today, there are usually no widebody flights. Delta Air Lines does use a Boeing 767-300 at times for one of its Atlanta flights, and Air Canada sometimes sends their 767-300s there. On July 11, 2012, the airport became a domestic hub for Delta Air Lines.  It is also a focus city for American Airlines and American Eagle.

LaGuardia is the smallest of the New York metropolitan area's three main airports.  The other two are John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) in southern Queens and Newark Liberty International in Newark, New Jersey. LaGuardia is the closest of the three to Manhattan. These three airports are the largest airport system in the United States. They are the second most busy system of airports in the world by number of passengers. They are the first in the world in terms of total flight operations. In 2010, the airport had just under 24.0 million passenger. JFK had 46.5 million and Newark had 33.1 million.  A total of about 104 million travelers used New York airports.

Most flights from LaGuardia go to locations inside the United States and Canada. Some flights also go to Aruba, the Bahamas, and Bermuda, which have United States Department of Homeland Security preclearance services. The airport has ICE/CPB facilities to deal with  customs and immigration for international flights but they cannot deal with a large number of passengers at one time. LaGuardia is the busiest airport in the United States without any non-stop flights to and from Europe. Nonstop flights to or from LaGuardia are limited to only . This does not include flights on Saturdays and flights to Denver. Because of this most flights across the continent and international flights use JFK or Newark.

The airport was first named Glenn H. Curtiss Airport. It was named for Glenn Hammond Curtiss.Kenneth T. Jackson: The Encyclopedia of New York City: The New-York Historical Society; Yale University Press; 1995. P. 470. It was later renamed North Beach Airport. New York City took control of the airport and named it New York Municipal Airport-LaGuardia Field. In 1953, it was named "LaGuardia Airport" for Fiorello La Guardia, the mayor of New York when the airport was built. The airport is run by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

 Airlines  
 Air Canada
 Air Canada Express:
Jazz Air
 American Airlines
 American Eagle
 Delta Air Lines
 Delta Connection:
Chautauqua Airlines
Compass Airlines
Pinnacle Airlines
Shuttle America
 Delta Shuttle
 Delta Air Lines
Shuttle America
 Frontier Airlines
Republic Airlines
 JetBlue Airways
 Southwest Airlines
 Spirit Airlines
 United Airlines
 United Express:
Chautauqua Airlines
ExpressJet
Mesa Airlines
Shuttle America
SkyWest Airlines

Top airlines and destinations
+ Busiest Domestic Routes from LGA (October 2010 - September 2011)   Rank City Passengers Top carriers 1 20px Chicago, Illinois (ORD) 1,287,000 American, Delta, Spirit, United 2 20px Atlanta, Georgia 1,134,000 AirTran, American, Delta 3 20px Fort Lauderdale, Florida 727,000 Delta, JetBlue, Spirit 4 20px Charlotte, North Carolina 559,000 American, US Airways 5 20px Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas (DFW) 547,000 American 6 20px Miami, Florida 542,000 American, Delta, Frontier, Spirit 7 20px Detroit, Michigan 462,000 American, Delta, Spirit 8 20px Boston, Massachusetts 459,000 Delta, US Airways 9 20px Washington, DC (DCA) 379,000 Delta, US Airways 10 20px Orlando, Florida 350,000 AirTran, Delta, JetBlue

References

Other websites

LaGuardia Airport (official site)
LGA Airport Monitor  (from Passur.com)
Transportation Methods for Getting to LaGuardia Airport 
Using the subway/bus to cheaply get to LaGuardia Airport
LaGuardia by private jet 

LaGuardia airport information (from airport-viewer.com)

Heli Flights Heliports and Helipads near Manhattan  (New York City Helicopter landing pads)

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