LGA — LaGuardia Airport

Large airport in New York, United States.
IATA code
LGA
ICAO code
KLGA
City code
NYC
All New York airports
Passengers
31,199,015
Aug 2025 – Jul 2026
Nonstop routes
132
With open traffic data
Time zone
UTC−5 / UTC−4
America/New_York
Elevation
6 m
20 ft
Runways
2
Longest 2,134 m

Local time now: —

More codes: airport codes starting with L

About LGA

LaGuardia Airport is a large airport serving New York, United States. It opened in 1939 and is run by Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. 31,199,015 passengers used it in Aug 2025 – Jul 2026. Open traffic data shows 132 nonstop routes from LGA. On tickets, the city code NYC covers it together with the other New York airports.

Wikidata (CC0) · US BTS T-100. Sources

Busiest nonstop routes from LGA

Route Distance Passengers / year
LGA → ORD1,180 km 2,736,902
LGA → ATL1,226 km 2,179,981
LGA → MIA1,764 km 1,803,803
LGA → DFW2,235 km 1,726,005
LGA → MCO1,529 km 1,605,672
LGA → FLL1,731 km 1,383,766
LGA → DEN2,606 km 1,284,953
LGA → CLT875 km 1,072,896
LGA → YYZ574 km 1,049,815
LGA → IAH2,279 km 1,049,227
LGA → DTW807 km 946,617
LGA → BOS297 km 838,725
LGA → TPA1,626 km 797,903
LGA → BNA1,230 km 781,506
LGA → MDW1,167 km 606,705
LGA → RDU693 km 582,948
LGA → STL1,429 km 574,253
LGA → MSP1,642 km 545,909
LGA → DCA345 km 534,622
LGA → DAL2,222 km 399,523
LGA → YUL521 km 394,038
LGA → CMH770 km 369,746
LGA → HOU2,298 km 368,879
LGA → MSY1,905 km 362,782
LGA → PIT539 km 360,624
LGA → MCI1,782 km 331,083
LGA → CLE674 km 325,096
LGA → IND1,063 km 307,025
LGA → CHS1,032 km 277,791
LGA → RIC470 km 277,483
LGA → BUF470 km 254,689
LGA → GSO741 km 228,903
LGA → RSW1,739 km 218,198
LGA → GSP982 km 212,768
LGA → CVG942 km 206,087
LGA → ORF476 km 197,545
LGA → PWM434 km 186,236
LGA → ILM805 km 183,793
LGA → JAX1,341 km 176,298
LGA → IAD368 km 175,482

Passengers on the route, both directions, over the period of each source: US DOT / BTS T-100 (Aug 2025 – Jul 2026) for routes touching the US, Eurostat (2024) for routes reported by European airports. Routes outside these are not counted.

Airlines at LGA

  • YX Republic Airline · 110,682 flights
  • 9E Endeavor Air · 63,048 flights
  • DL Delta Air Lines · 54,143 flights
  • AA American Airlines · 31,730 flights
  • WN Southwest Airlines · 22,581 flights
  • UA United Air Lines · 17,606 flights
  • NK Spirit Air Lines · 8,276 flights
  • QK Jazz Aviation LP · 7,097 flights
  • B6 JetBlue Airways · 6,470 flights
  • F9 Frontier Airlines · 4,408 flights
  • AC Air Canada · 3,319 flights
  • PD Porter Airlines Limited (PACL) · 1,806 flights
  • OO SkyWest Airlines · 1,503 flights
  • YV Mesa Airlines · 1,319 flights
  • 2T BermudAir · 92 flights

Departures and arrivals on scheduled passenger flights, Aug 2025 – Jul 2026. U.S. DOT, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, T-100 Segment. Sources

Punctuality

Departures on time
76.2%
Within 15 minutes of schedule
Cancelled
4.7%
Departures counted
132,632
US domestic flights

US domestic flights of the larger US airlines, Aug 2025 – Jul 2026. BTS Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance. Sources

Other airports in New York

Code Airport Distance
JFKJohn F. Kennedy International Airport17 km
EWRNewark Liberty International Airport27 km

All New York airports and the distances between them →

Airports within 150 km

Code Airport Distance
TEBTeterboro Airport18 km
HPNWestchester County Airport35 km
ISPLong Island MacArthur Airport65 km
SWFNew York Stewart International Airport83 km
TTNTrenton Mercer Airport97 km
HVNTweed New Haven Airport99 km
ABELehigh Valley International Airport133 km

Distance from LGA to the major hubs

Route Distance Passengers / year
LGA → LHR5,551 km —
LGA → DXB11,017 km —
LGA → CDG5,847 km —
LGA → FRA6,202 km —
LGA → IST8,042 km —
LGA → AMS5,859 km —
LGA → JFK17 km —
LGA → ATL1,226 km 2,179,981
LGA → LAX3,974 km —
LGA → SIN15,334 km —
LGA → HND10,882 km —
LGA → DOH10,785 km —

Runways

Runway Length Width Surface
04/222,134 m 46 mAsphalt
13/312,134 m 46 mAsphalt

OurAirports (public domain). Sources

Location

New York, New York, United States · 40.7772, -73.8726

Map (OpenStreetMap) Airport website Wikipedia

Questions

LaGuardia Airport has the IATA code LGA and the ICAO code KLGA. Airlines and tickets use the three-letter IATA code; pilots and air traffic control use the four-letter ICAO code.

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