New York is one of the most important markets we serve at Delta, and it has long been our goal to become the preferred airline for customers traveling to and from New York.
And we’ve made a lot of progress in the past decade. We built an international hub at JFK that connects the city to points across the globe, including Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America. We broke ground last year on a $1.2 billion expansion and enhancement of Terminal 4 at JFK. And you’re seeing Delta’s name all over the city as the official airline of the Yankees and Mets, the Knicks, the Rangers and Madison Square Garden, just to name a few.
Today marks a new step in our New York expansion, and it’s Delta’s biggest move yet. We’ve unveiled our schedule for 2012 that creates a new domestic hub at LaGuardia Airport. We’ll be adding 100 new daily flights to nearly 30 new cities from LaGuardia. We’re adding new service to top business markets like Miami, Dallas/Fort Worth and Cleveland, and adding or expanding service to small- and mid-sized cities across the country, including Buffalo, Syracuse and Rochester, N.Y.; Richmond, Va.; Greensboro, N.C.; and Norfolk, Va.
Many smaller communities will be getting jet service on Delta to LaGuardia, a significant upgrade from smaller, turborprop aircraft that previously served those markets.
Overall, we’ll be adding 4 million new seats every year at LaGuardia. And we can do that without increasing congestion simply by using larger aircraft than other airlines had previously. In the end, our new LGA service will enhance customer choice and increase competition in the market. The U.S. Department of Transportation recently concluded that our New York expansion has significant benefits for consumers – and we strongly agree.
It’s the largest single-carrier expansion in New York in many years, which makes this an exciting and historic day for Delta and our New York customers.
To make sure we can handle all of these new flights smoothly, we’re taking over Terminal C at LaGuardia, and building a 600-foot bridge connecting it with Delta Terminal D. We’ll operate a total of 29 gates at both terminals, and we’re also going to add a new Delta Sky Club in Terminal C, in addition to the newly-renovated one in Terminal D.
Including our six gates at the Marine Air Terminal, we’ll have a total of 35 gates at LaGuardia by summer 2012 – more than double what we operate now.
I’m looking forward to seeing you in New York in 2012!
Gail Grimmett
Senior Vice President –New York
December 20th, 2011 at 11:58 am
This is great news for those of us who fly out of Manchester, or really any area north of Boston. It means I no longer have to slog down I-93 in the nasty traffic in order to catch a flight to NYC. I don’t even care that the jets will be too small for two-class service; they sure beat the pants off the old US Airways turboprops!
I’d like to know, however, whether Delta.Com will be good about finding flights where I fly MHT->LGA, and then JFK->(some international destination). The transfer between LGA and JFK isn’t painless by any means, but it’s doable with a decent layover. And, access to JFK opens up so many more international routes for which I’d normally have to start in Boston.
(Even better would be for the NY MTA to finally establish a single train service that would go between LGA and JFK, but that’s a pipe dream)
Right now I don’t see flights showing up unless I book the MHTLGA and JFK(international destination) separately. If you could integrate LGA and JFK as a virtual airport — probably requiring at least a 2-hour layover to make any connection reasonable, but including luggage transfer between the two — that would be wonderful.
December 23rd, 2011 at 2:00 pm
Posting this here as well as @deltaassit on twitter. I second the request in the post from rswonger on transfers at JFK. However my experience was not LGA-JFK.
It took just about 2 hours to simply make a connection at JFK on a route from LHR-JFK-SFO. I hoped to have time to deplane, freshen up, and relax before the second half of a 20 hour flight but I barely made the connection.
So, if you do build a train from LGA to JFK perhaps it can also go from JFK Terminal 4 to JFK Terminal 2. Otherwise the connection requires climbing stairs, crossing streets, and going through security again just to change planes.
To top off the terminal change adventure – my LHR-JFK-SFO flight was credited at 600 miles less than the ticketing screen, and as it stands now, will leave me 100 miles short of Platinum Status.
The explanation: I do not get MQM credit for the LHR-JFK flight, because, as i understand the Customer Care desk, even though I had a 1.5 hour adventure moving between terminals… …I did not have to make a connection, I simply changed planes…..
Really????
The flight itself was nice – great crews, great seats, and it left on time, almost without me.
p.s. I did have a “not-so-fun travel experience.” I did call and email to ask that you make it right. I was told that no one has the authority to credit my skymiles account with the actual miles flown, so I just have to deal with being 100 miles short of Platinum status – because i really didn’t go to JFK…
February 2nd, 2012 at 2:01 am
First of all, great job with this US Airways slot deal. This is a major win for you guys. Secondly, I am sure all of us who use the shuttle regularly whether it be from Boston or Chicago, LOVE the Marine Air Terminal. To connect in the biggest airspace in the entire world, but only need 5 minutes of connection time, that’s a beautiful thing.
However, with this ramp-up of service, LGA is going to start really becoming a major domestic connecting point in your network, right? So I really think it would benefit the consumer greatly if you added at least just a bus that went back and forth between the Marine Terminal and the main terminals. The current process of having to go outside of security, either wait sometimes a while for a shuttle bus to take you or pay for a cab, and then go through security again is a major pain. A simple shuttle inside of security between the Marine Terminal and the main gates would make a lot of sense.
Thanks for reading!
July 10th, 2012 at 11:01 am
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