LaGuardia Airport Opens New Delta Terminal Concourse

EAST ELMHURST, QUEENS — Travelers will be able to step foot in LaGuardia Airport's newest terminal next week when Delta Air Lines opens a seven-gate concourse amid the airport's $8 billion makeover.

The seven new Delta gates will run 60 flights a day to Boston, Chicago and D.C. starting Nov. 4, according to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office.

The new concourse is the first to open in Delta's $4 billion Terminal C and the second to open as part of Cuomo's plan to completely rebuild the airport that former Vice President Joe Biden once compared to a "third-world country."

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is contributing $600 million to cover the cost of the terminal, and Delta has pledged to foot the rest of the bill.

"We are better than what LaGuardia is. That is a true statement," Cuomo said Tuesday at the concourse's opening celebration. "If you deny a problem, you will never solve it."

The new concourse features an outpost of New York's famous H&H Bagels, a pizzeria that's the brainchild of the chef behind Carroll Gardens restaurant Lucali and an American restaurant by the chefs at the Soho restaurant King, according to Eater NY.

Today @NYGovCuomo is at LaGuardia to open @Delta’s stunning new gates and concourse - all part of #AWholeNewLGA. https://t.co/hG2rHkczsl pic.twitter.com/MDcL5fG16Z
— LaGuardia Airport (@LGAairport) October 29, 2019

Exciting day here at LaGuardia as Gov. Cuomo announces the opening of a brand new Terminal.

New concourse is really nice, spacious and high-tech!

Also features h&h bagels. Terminal opens to delta passengers next week. pic.twitter.com/LBKb39Rts7
— Michael Snow (@Michael_Sn0w) October 29, 2019

In December 2018, a 250,000-square-foot concourse at Terminal B became the first part of the rebuilt LaGuardia Airport to open to the public.

That concourse includes 18 gates used by Air Canada, Southwest, American and United; a children's play area; an indoor park; a Shake Shack and outposts of the bookstore McNally Jackson and iconic toy store F.A.O. Schwartz.