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LaGuardia International Airport (IATA: LGA, ICAO: KLGA) is an airport serving New York City, United States, located on the waterfront
of Flushing in the borough of Queens. It is named after a former Mayor of New York, Fiorello LaGuardia. "LaGuardia Airport"
is the official name of the airport according to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates the facility.
LaGuardia is the smallest of the New York area's three primary commercial airports, the other two of which are John F.
Kennedy International Airport in southern Queens and Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, New Jersey. LaGuardia
is popular due to its central location and proximity to Manhattan. In spite of the airport's small size, wide-body aircraft
once visited regularly; the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 and Lockheed L-1011 were even specifically designed for use at LaGuardia.
Today, the only scheduled widebody service is one of Delta's many Atlanta flights aboard a Boeing 767-300 although the
larger Boeing 767-400, which was designed with LaGuardia's size limitations in mind, is occasionally rotated in Delta's
schedule. The airport serves as a focus city for Delta Air Lines, American Airlines, and US Airways.
Most flights from LaGuardia go to destinations within the US and Canada, with seasonal flight service to Aruba, the
Bahamas and Bermuda. Contrary to popular belief, the airport does indeed have INS/FIS facilities capable of processing
customs and immigration on arriving international flights, however said facilities are insufficient to efficiently handle
the number of passengers that a non-precleared scheduled airline service would require.
In 2007, the airport handled 25.3 million passengers; JFK handled 47.8 million and Newark handled slightly more than 36.3 million,
making for a total of approximately 111 million travelers using New York airports, which is the largest airport system in the
United States and second in the world after London in terms of passenger traffic.
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