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Originally Posted by Music guy
First post. Hoping I'm doing this correctly. Love this forum. As a former New Jerseyite and now resident of New Orleans, just curious. We last year opened a spectacular brand new terminal at Louis Armstrong International, closing our 60 something year old facility, effectively a brand new airport (using existing runways). Why does LaGuardia constantly state it's the first new airport in 25 years? Just curious. Don't mean to be that guy. LOVE the posts here! Thanks for a fabulous forum!
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Never heard of puffery? LGA is not even a "new airport" since the first runway opened in 1929. As you note, MSY opened a whole new terminal complex in 2019 on the "back side" of the airfield, but Indianapolis did the same exact thing in 2008 and Chicago-Midway in 2001. I'm sure there are others. The last ground-up airport to be built in a major US city was probably Denver...
Cuomo is probably building more new infrastructure than his immediate predecessors, but pretty much every claim issued by his PR machine is a joke.