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LaGuardia Airport (IATA: LGA, ICAO: KLGA, FAA LID: LGA) / l ə ˈ ɡ w ɑːr d i ə / is a civil airport in East Elmhurst, Queens, New York City. Covering 680 acres (280 ha) as of July 1, 2024, the facility was established in 1929 and began operating as a public airport in 1939. It is named after former New York City mayor Fiorello La Guardia.
The Marine Air Terminal was LaGuardia Airport's original terminal for overseas flights. It was highly popular in the 1940s, when LaGuardia was the only major airport in the U.S. which offered regular flights to Europe.
After holding the reputation as one of the worst airports in the country, LaGuardia Airport has made a complete turnaround, being awarded the best airport of its size based on a new passenger...
LaGuardia Airport has been the site of many aviation accidents and incidents. Southwest Flight 345 after evacuation, with emergency slides deployed
Delta, as well as other public and private organizations, have collectively invested $8 billion to modernize LaGuardia's aging B and C terminals.
“I have just travelled thru the new LaGuardia airport. It confirms a theory of mine,” former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers recently observed. “The newer the terminal, the less convenient ...
Long Island Rail Road station. AirTrain LaGuardia was a proposed 1.5-mile-long (2.4 km) people mover system and elevated railway in New York City, United States, that would provide service to LaGuardia Airport in Queens. It would have connected with the New York City Subway and Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) in Willets Point, similar to how the ...
On December 29, 1975, a bomb detonated near the TWA baggage reclaim terminal at LaGuardia Airport in New York City. The blast killed 11 people and seriously injured 74 others.