Originally Posted by
willstew
Totally, if UA was out of JFK I wouldn't have even made this post! EWR is great if you're in Manhattan already / doing reg. business travel, but JFK more easily services so many more people in BK/Queens via MTA & ride-share, etc.
Dumb question: I assume LGA runway too short for these planes? Seems like the farthest distance for LGA flights is ~ Miami.
No; although LGA's 7,000-foot runways are short by comparison to other major airports, they are long enough to support trans-con flights on certain types of aircraft. But the Port Authority's perimeter rule, which is in effect Sunday-Friday, prohibits nonstop flights to airports more than 1,500 miles away. (There is an exception allowed for LGA-DEN nonstops, which were operating before the perimeter rule came into effect.)
LGA had a lot of DC-10 service back in the day, and DL has operated 767s in and out of LGA.