Seaplanes were the reason LaGuardia was built where it is. It was never meant to be a full-size airport, especially since the powerbrokers in New York in the 1920s viewed aviation as a competitor to their railroads.
Posted on 09/29/2023 12:57:05 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Travelers trying to flee New York on budget airlines out of LaGuardia Airport were faced with ankle-deep water Friday morning amid widespread flooding.
The airport was forced to close its Terminal A — from where flights on Spirit and Frontier airlines depart — as the floodwaters barreled through the building.
Photos and videos posted online showed the terminal covered in water as frantic passengers tried to flee.
One woman even shared footage from inside one of the terminals, showing her TikTok followers the water creeping up over her boots and seeping through the building’s revolving doors.
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Trying to care...
> Is Pete booty breath going to fix this? <
Yes. He has already reclassified LaGuardia as a seaport.
Algore: See? I was right that NY would be underwater!
Well if this doesn’t get branDUHn to declare that there climatological emergencia, he ain’t much of a presiden..... Oh!
I always preferred LaGuardia. Closer to(then) Shea Stadium.
To paraphrase Travis Bickle: “Some day a real rain is gonna come and wash all the sh** onto the streets. You’ll be swimming in it!”
It seems like the “one hundred year floods” happen every year or two....and nobody fixes the flood maps!
Horrible airport.
It already is, or was.
Terminal A used to be the LaGuardia Marine Air Terminal.
It's actually a beautiful building with the inside walls covered in art deco murals. I flew in and out of it once.
-PJ
Sea level rise ya know.
Love seeing this headline…. When the flight I am on lands there around 6:30 pm tonight. I’m not on either of these airlines, I do hope I don’t have to wade out to my connecting flight.
Seaplanes were the reason LaGuardia was built where it is. It was never meant to be a full-size airport, especially since the powerbrokers in New York in the 1920s viewed aviation as a competitor to their railroads.
I wonder how many EVs were rendered useless in the flood?
They don’t know how to stand on a chair?
Terminal A is the original LGA terminal. It was the AA and Eastern hub. Unlike Terminals B and C, it has not been upgraded. However, turd-world airlines, like Frontier and Spirit, deserve a turd-world terminal.
I've also flown Spirit...and I must say that it much more closely resembled Air Malawi than Emirates or United.
Probably at some homo bar sipping from a multi-colored drink.
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