LaGuardia Airport is a civil airport that is located in East Elmhurst, Queens, New York City. The facility, which now spans 680 acres, was founded in 1929 and began functioning as a public airport in 1939. It is named after former New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, and it is sometimes referred to as the "USS LaGuardia" by pilots because of its short runways that are surrounded by Flushing Bay, giving the impression of landing on a ship.
Airline service to domestic (and limited international) destinations is the primary focus of the airport. It was the third busiest airport in the New York metropolitan area, behind John F. Kennedy and Newark, and the twenty-first busiest in the United States by passenger volume, as of 2019. While the airport serves as a hub for both American Airlines and Delta Air Lines, commercial service is restricted by a curfew, a slot system, and a "perimeter rule" that prohibits nonstop flights to or from destinations more than 1,500 miles.
LaGuardia was known in the 2000s and 2010s for having outdated and filthy buildings, inefficient air operations, and low customer service metrics. In response to these critiques, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) stated in 2015 that a multibillion-dollar rebuild of the airport's passenger infrastructure would be completed by 2025.
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