In a Queens Miracle, New York LaGuardia Airport Goes From Loser to Winner
Photo Credit: The resurrection of LaGuardia Airport from one of the world's worst to one of the biggest turnarounds started with Terminal B. Flickr / The Port Authority of New York
Throughout a troubled 2022, the pandemic exposed many fragilities in a troubled U.S. airline industry, but it also enabled a widely recognized miracle in the $8 billion resurrection of New York LaGuardia Airport. Once widely viewed as a hellhole, LaGuardia was transformed.
Transformation involved rebuilding two terminals, each costing about $4 billion, as well as about five miles of roadway. Terminal B has 35 gates, occupied by American and four other airlines. Work began in 2016 and was completed on July 8, 2022, the exact day specified in a bond offering six years earlier. Terminal C, occupied and financed by Delta Air Lines, will have 37 gates. Work began in 2017 and is largely finished, with completion by the end of the year.
Corridor at renvoated LaGuardia lined with translucent photographs of New York. Source: Port Authority of NY & NJ.“You’ve had two miracles in Queens,” said Rick Cotton, executive director of the Port Authority of New York