NY Governor Andrew Cuomo is responding to long-standing criticism of NYC’s bottle-necked airports with. He told a recent conference: “…LaGuardia and JFK are inexcusable, frankly, that they have not been redeveloped to keep pace with the best international airports…And that’s something that we’re going to attend to.”Details from Crain’s NY Business HERE
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Of all the grand features of Paris’s Grands Magasins, Paul Heymont’s favorite is the stained glass dome at Printemps
I’m going to have to agree with the Governor. One must acknowledge a problem before it can be fixed. I believe La Guardia is just about the worst airport I’ve had the misfortune to use in recent years. I include any number of developing nations in the assessment. Most countries try to encourage tourism by giving a good impression on arrival. Even in places where infrastructure as a whole is lacking, the airports are often clean and new. I sincerely hope the Governor succeeds in this.
By “worst” I meant grubbiest. And crowded. I can certainly see how the convenience factor would temper one’s opinion in the case of locals. But you, too, PHeymont deserve better.
When I was stranded in JFK for 3 days trying to get back to England I found the Staff there were extremely friendly. No…No… not the TSA. The folks who worked at Starbucks and BK. The Airline Reps and the Skycaps.
All generous to all the young kids who were waiting to get back to England too.
They’d all spent their last Dollar before we boarded our original flight home. Then we returned 6 hours later with technical problems.
The cash machines soon ran out of Dollars.
I even had time to follow the mice in the Bar back to where they hid inside the pots that supported the imitation trees. I’ll never forget the screams of the young girls when they discovered mice would sit beneath your table – waiting for scraps of food to drop.
Well, fortunately LGA hosts no international flights except to and from Canada, and hey, they’re family, right? No need to do heavy cleaning.
Seriously, though: It’s actually my favorite of all the NY airports. It’s compact, I can park easily across the road from the main terminal and the luggage comes faster than at either JFK or EWR. It’s even got a Todd English restaurant and a few other amenities. It doesn’t dwarf me or make me feel lost in future space. To me, it’s like a pleasant B&B compared to the JFK Super-Hilton or the EWR Giant-Marriott.
Its only real downside is that there are so few slots that there is almost no slack in the take-off and landing schedule, so a delay can easily become a DELAY.