Opened in 1939, New York LaGuardia International Airport (airport code LGA) is a commercial airport located about 8 miles from Manhattan on the shore of Flushing Bay in northern Queens borough.  LaGuardia airport is operated by the Port of New York and New Jersey (PONYNJ)

Although much smaller than New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport, LaGuardia had a traffic volume of nearly 27 million passengers in 2014, a little more than 50% of JFK airport’s traffic. Ten major airlines offer flights to & from the airport, plus several subsidiaries of those airlines. Continue reading →