NEW YORK—New York officials on Wednesday celebrated the six-year $8 billion reconstruction of the city’s long-derided LaGuardia airport with a brand new Delta Air Lines terminal.
Delta’s glittering 1.3 million-square foot $4 billion Terminal C will begin flights on Saturday at nine of the 37 new gates. Delta, the largest carrier at LaGuardia, is flying 255 flights daily to 70 cities this summer.
New York and airlines spent $8 billion to reconstruct the airport that then-Vice President Joe Biden in 2014 dubbed “some third-world country.”
New York Governor Kathy Hochul did not forget Biden’s earlier assessment. “Come see this, President Biden, because your jaw is going to drop,” Hochul said at a grand opening event….