LaGuardia has customs available for general aviation, but unlike EWR and JFK, it doesn't have a separate international section with customs lines, etc. As a result, it handles only domestic U.S. scheduled airline flights, as well as a few from Canadian airports that have U.S. customs preclearance facilities. A lot of its traffic is shuttles up and down the east coast and out to Chicago.
It was a huge deal for me when Ottawa added customs preclearance in the late 1990s, because then I could fly from YOW straight to LGA and take a cheap, fast taxi ride into midtown for business meetings, instead of having to fly to Newark and take a long, slow cab ride in, then try to bribe a NYC cabbie to take me all the way back out to Newark for a late afternoon flight home.
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Brand New Laguardia
🔗 Thu, 15 Apr 2021
— @NYANWT at LaGuardia Airport, United States Reply
A Brand New Modern Airport! I Am Glad To Only Be A 15 Minute Drive FROM It.
The Entire Airport Got Revamped
🔗 Tue, 30 Mar 2021
— @atlantaz at LaGuardia Airport, United States Reply
I Like How My Closest Airport To Me Got Changed ENTIRELY, The Terminals Are Now Different, and More Signs And Services Have Been Built
Trminals numbers
🔗 Thu, 26 Nov 2009
— Anonymous Flyer at LaGuardia Airport, United States Reply
The terminals numbering system is extremely confusing. Kindly add more signs.
Bomb scare
🔗 Sat, 01 Aug 2009
— @david at LaGuardia Airport, United States Reply
Early in the morning of 1 August 2009, LaGuardia was evacuated because of a passenger carrying a fake bomb, resulting in huge delays:
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/08/01/laguardia-evacuted.html
Customs and LGA
🔗 Sun, 22 Mar 2009
— @david at LaGuardia Airport, United States Reply
LaGuardia has customs available for general aviation, but unlike EWR and JFK, it doesn't have a separate international section with customs lines, etc. As a result, it handles only domestic U.S. scheduled airline flights, as well as a few from Canadian airports that have U.S. customs preclearance facilities. A lot of its traffic is shuttles up and down the east coast and out to Chicago.
It was a huge deal for me when Ottawa added customs preclearance in the late 1990s, because then I could fly from YOW straight to LGA and take a cheap, fast taxi ride into midtown for business meetings, instead of having to fly to Newark and take a long, slow cab ride in, then try to bribe a NYC cabbie to take me all the way back out to Newark for a late afternoon flight home.
Ground Transportation
🔗 Tue, 05 Jun 2007
— Anonymous Flyer at LaGuardia Airport, United States Reply
The best way into Manhattan is just to take a NYC cab. It's a pretty fast and reasonably cheap ride in if traffic permits.