This week’s featured link:
New terminal designed to be exact opposite of usual LaGuardia – Runway Girl Network
They had me at the headline. LaGuardia opened up the first phase of its terminal redo. It’s still a long road until all the work is done, but at least now, the … Read the post
LaGuardia Rebuilds to Go Beyond “Third World,” but is it Enough? – Icons of Infrastructure
Here’s another Icons piece, but this one I didn’t write. I was just interviewed about my thoughts on LaGuardia’s rebuild. As you can imagine, I was far more negative on it than the other person … Read the post
You don’t need me to tell you that New York’s LaGuardia Airport sucks. If you’ve been even remotely near the place, you haven’t had a good experience. While long-term improvement is slowly happening, a band of airlines recently got together to put some short-term measures in place. The funny … Read the post
Today’s featured link:
Circuit-board solder crack cited in Indonesia AirAsia crash probe – ATW
They say it’s never just one thing that leads to an aircraft accident, and this is a textbook example. Remember when the Air Asia flight went down in stormy skies? People just assumed it was bad … Read the post
LaGuardia sucks, and we all know it. But since it’s the most convenient commercial airport to Manhattan, it’s an important place. Instead of shutting the thing down as should probably happen, we’ve seen about 2,700 different attempts to “fix” the airport. The latest, a multi-billion dollar effort put forth by … Read the post
The USA’s worst airport: If not LaGuardia, which one? – USA Today
With the news that LaGuardia may finally get a new terminal, I was asked which airports I would call the five worst in the US. I didn’t have 5, but I went with Washington/Dulles, JFK, Miami, and LAX. … Read the post
We’ve heard rumblings about the death of outdated perimeter rules at both Washington/National and New York/LaGuardia for years. But could it actually happen in New York? It seems that there are talks about the perimeter rule going away at LaGuardia, and that would be great news… for some airlines. Others … Read the post
I know I just wrote about this last week, but the schedules for American’s new flying at New York/LaGuardia airport have been filed. It’s time to dive in a little deeper.
I realize this may seem like a relatively small addition to the … Read the post
Reports suggest that the slots American has to sell off at LaGuardia will be bought by Southwest and Virgin America. Do you like that plan? If so, where should they fly? If not, who should have bought them instead?
The details are out. Now that the feds have finally paved the way for the Delta/US Airways slot swap (at least this part of it), Delta can finally roll out its plans to dominate New York. This is far from just replacing US Airways on existing flights but is … Read the post
Remember that whole Delta/US Airways slot swap deal? US Airways gave most of its slots at New York’s La Guardia airport to Delta in exchange for most of Delta’s slots at Washington’s National Airport along with a couple of other considerations. As part of that, Delta had to put 24 … Read the post
After years of back and forth, the Department of Transportation has finally decided to do the right thing and let US Airways trade a host of slots at New York’s La Guardia for a bunch of Delta’s slots at Washington National Airport. This swap is not a simple transaction. … Read the post
