Tag: LaGuardia Airport
Even Joe Biden anecdotally knows our airports are terrible, but now there are numbers to back it up: A study by airport advocacy group Global Gateway Alliance found that Kennedy, Newark and LaGuardia have they highest percentage of tarmac delays of any airports in the country, the Daily News reports. A total of 6,788 flights […]
Kelvin Smith, who the New York Post calls a “career Bronx drug criminal,” was arrested Saturday morning when he was caught trying to board a US Airways flight to somewhere in the Caribbean with 18 pounds of weed, 2.8 ounces of crack, and 3 ounces of psilocybin mushrooms in his carry-on luggage. “This just shows […]
The design firm Neoscape created these renderings of a futuristic LaGuardia to show what the dilapidated airport might look like in a few years with a little TLC. “This comprehensive vision integrates a modern, efficient and innovative design, including the striking all-glass facade, into La Guardia’s main terminal,” said Joseph Sitt, chairman of Global Gateway Alliance, […]
Vice President Joe Biden had some choice words for LaGuardia Airport during a speech in Philadelphia yesterday. “If I blindfolded someone and took them at 2:00 in the morning into the airport in Hong Kong and said ‘where do you think you are,’ they’d say, ‘this must be America, it’s a modern airport,” he said. […]
In a week of record low temperatures and subsequent airline delays across the country, no flights were more fucked up than those coming out of LaGuardia, JFK, and Newark. A study conducted by the Global Gateway Alliance found that almost 60% of all in- and outbound flights at the three airports were delayed during the […]
