Talk:LaGuardia Airport

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I've adjusted the following statement:

However, because its runways and terminals are too small to accommodate widebody aircraft, most transcontinental and international flights use JFK International Airport in Jamaica, New York or Newark Liberty International in Newark, New Jersey.

Wide-body aircraft have used LaGuardia for years, and continue to do so. The biggest restriction on long-range flights to and from LGA is legal. I've updated the article accordingly. --Gyrofrog 16:27, 11 Jun 2004 (UTC)

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I removed "one time" from the description of Fiorello La Gauradia. While technically correct, "one time" sounds like his tenure as Mayor was a footnote to the rest of his career (like "one time saxophonist Alan Greenspan"). I also thought "New York City" was redundant. - Gyrofrog 04:36, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Contents 1 Removed the following statement: 2 La Guardia vs LaGuardia 3 Written in smoke? 4 Date links 5 Removed incident 6 Former names 7 1975 bombing reference

[edit] Removed the following statement:

However, with Delta's restructuring plan and concurrent widebody fleet realignment from domestic to international duties, 
this may soon too come to an end.

This is completely untrue. While 8 of Delta's 767-400ER aircraft are being re-aligned to international, the non-ER 767-300s are not. They are NOT ETOPS-rated, and it is highly unlikely that Delta will spend the money to get them to ETOPS-standards. Andros 1337 23:57, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] La Guardia vs LaGuardia

FYI, as it will probably come up sooner or later: According to research documented at this site (and comments made by others there), there is no consensus on the spelling, even in NYT citations or in the airport and Port Authority's own records. Even the spelling of Fiorello La Guardia was inconsistently printed during his own lifetime. —mjb 06:11, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Written in smoke?

The claim that three aircraft wrote "NAME IT LAGUARDIA" in smoke strains credibility. The website referenced by the citation doesn't appear too credible. Here's another site that has a contradictory (and more believable) claim: that the slogan was written on a banner towed by a plane: http://experts.about.com/e/l/la/LaGuardia_Airport.htm

Can anyone back this up? If not, let's give it the heave-ho. Mr random 03:12, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

The Airport was originally named after Glenn Curtis. Somethign smells in this article. —Joseph/N328KF (Talk) 23:02, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Date links

Linking dates is not done in airport/airline related pages when listing route start/end dates. This is an exception to the general wikipedia policy.

Andrewb729 23:06, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Removed incident

I've removed the following from the list of incidents:

• Ralph "Cousin" DeSimone Jr. a New Jersey Genovese crime family associate and the brother of Joe "Joe Black" DeSimone, cousin of Tommy DeSimone and nephew of Frank DeSimone was found executed in the trunk of his Cadillac DeVille on June 13, 1991 in the long-term parking lot of the airport. Ralph was executed after he was indicted for trafficking heroin and was murdered over worries of becoming an informant. His three murderers were later convicted and incarcerated.

This isn't aviation-related, and the following sentence about runway lengths became a non-sequitor. If this really needs to be included then at least put it after the aviation incidents. (It should also cite a source.) -- Gyrofrog (talk) 21:49, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Former names

According to Newsday, the former name is "Glenn H. Curtiss Airport" not "Glenn L. Curtiss Airport". Also it has taken the name of "North Beach Airport" in between. --Voidvector 10:30, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 1975 bombing reference

I noticed this better reference for the 1975 bombing [CNN article on 1975 bombing]--JBadger169 (talk) 15:37, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

also [reference on court TV] --JBadger169 (talk) 16:16, 30 December 2007 (UTC)