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Originally Posted by aquablue
That's because the airspace is badly designed and overcrowded. LGA should have been shut down years ago to allow proper traffic routings and for JFK to be fully utilized. Right now JFK is only half utilized due to LGA. An expanded JFK and EWR would have allowed far better airspace utilization and on time flights if LGA was out of the picture. However, short sighted planners in the region have messed up. This has nothing to do with having a nice terminal building. If they want to build a pleasant environment for the pax then let them do it, it's better than having a greyhound terminal building and still having bad airspace.
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The governor favors style over substance and the fight to add more runways to JFK would have gotten ugly. Politically speaking giving LGA new terminals is the easy way out.