LaGuardia Airport

This is the most common use of LGA. For other uses, see LGA (disambiguation).

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Fiorello LaGuardia Airport is located in Flushing, a neighborhood within the New York City borough of Queens, New York near the Flushing Bay. Named after a former Mayor of New York, Fiorello LaGuardia, it serves the greater New York area.

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LaGuardia is New York's main domestic airport, due to its central location and proximity to Manhattan. However, the airport does not have customs and immigration services, and a perimeter rule prohibits incoming and outgoing flights that exceed 1,500 miles (2,400 km) -- except on Saturdays, when the ban is lifted, and to Denver, which was grandfathered in -- so most transcontinental and international flights use JFK in Jamaica, Queens, New York or Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, New Jersey. Exceptions are international flights from airports with U.S. customs and immigration pre-clearance, such as Ottawa, Montreal, and Toronto in Canada; Freeport and Nassau in the Bahamas; Aruba; and Bermuda.

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In spite of the airport's small size, wide-body aircraft regularly visit the airport. In fact, the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 and Lockheed L-1011 were specifically designed to use LaGuardia.

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Most flights from LaGuardia go to destinations within the United States and to Canada, with seasonal flight service to Aruba, the Bahamas and Bermuda.

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For more information about transportation to LGA, see transportation to New York City area airports.

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Airport: An airport is a facility where aircraft can take off and land. At the very minimum, an airport consists of one runway (or helipad), but other common components are hangars and terminal buildings. Apart from these, an airport may have a variety of facilities and infrastructure, including fixed base ...

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