ge18

Officially opened today 12/1, AA is operating three gates in addition to AC & WN.

I'm curious if anyone has yet been in through security? Maps aren't fully updated so I'm unclear what the new TSA configuration is yet. Some twitter photos seem to indicate possible airside connection between the B and Eastern Concourse, but I don't yet believe it.

krazykanuck

I'm curious about this too. I had a last minute work trip pop up so I'll be there next week flying Southwest. Wondering about how easy/fast it is to get from the Centurion Lounge to the SW gates.

Unrelated but what on Earth is going on in NYC next week? Nearly every hotel in Manhattan is sold out.

seawolf

I highly doubt there is an airside connector according to map in the middle of this article:
https://www.flightglobal.com/news/ar...uardia-454068/

Interested for the first reports on availability of PreCheck at these gates.

wetrat0

There is an airside connection between the eastern concourse and the B gates. They are using the revamped "A" checkpoint for both. Precheck was open. After leaving security, you turn left for B gates and turn right for gates 40-59.

wetrat0

Southwest is in the new concourse. But the Centurion lounge is outside security so you'll need to account for that regardless.

seawolf

Technically I suppose it's an airside connector but functionally is the A checkpoint connected to any other legacy gates?

wetrat0

I thought I made it clear but I guess not. The A checkpoint is functionally connected, airside, to both the legacy B gates (B1-B8), which are still in use, and the new gates (40-59). There would be nothing stopping you from walking between the B concourse and the new concourse. You cannot access C or D concourses without taking the bus.

The legacy A gates are now closed and presumably the next step is to demolish the old A concourse (confusingly, it seems they will still call the security checkpoint "A" although the new gates thankfully do not have any letter, marking perhaps the first step to eliminating the most confusing terminal/concourse/gate number scheme ever).

themicah

Fingers crossed...

blort

There was demolition equipment lining up around the A concourse on Tuesday, it won't be around for long.

The final gate numbering scheme, I can't speak to.

cestmoi123

What, you mean there's some problem with having two gates labeled C8 at the same airport, in entirely separate terminals? What could possibly go wrong?

dstan

cestmoi123

AA doesn't fly out of the MAT, as far as I know, just JetBlue. Alaska isn't using the MAT any more, so they might have in theory moved some AA flights over there, but I haven't heard anything about it. What flight?

ijgordon

AA was using gates A3 and A5 in the A concourse of Terminal B (Central terminal) after they consolidated their operations over to Terminal B.
https://airwaysmag.com/airlines/amer...as-terminal-b/

But my understanding is that the A concourse has been replaced with the new concourse and the gates are now 40-59. Obviously an error on AA's part...
https://www.laguardiaairport.com/at-...t/airport-maps

ijgordon

Not sure if there’s a better thread, but just reporting that LGA traffic is a total cluster these days. The airport tweeted a few days ago that it was at “peak construction”.
Last Friday at around 5-6 it took a bit over 45 minutes to get off the Grand Central (coming from Manhattan) and into terminal C.
Terminal B looked a bit better, partly because the shorter distance, but traffic in that lane was moving a little faster on the flyover into the airport.
One big source of the backup to C/D was the arrivals lanes, full of TLC vehicles, I guess going to the ride share pickup area. The departure lanes were moving once they separated off, but then slowed again as you have to drive past the terminal D departures level to get to C (I don’t remember if this was always the case), and it seemed part of the slowdown was just cars backed up exiting the terminals/airports.

We saw a few people with suitcases walking on the airport roadway, obviously desperate to make flights. And of course a few desperate souls trying to jump ahead in he security line (no one gave them any problems), including one girl who said she was on the bus for 2 hours.

Seems there’s really no easy way to get to the airport, and certainly Delta seems disadvantaged given C/D seem the worst. I would t even think of trying the Q70/M60 as those go to Terminal B first and that just a LOT of traffic they’ll be sitting in.

Thank goodness we’re flying back into JFK this week.

dstan

I made it in and out of LGA on a daytrip to DCA yesterday with no issues, fortunately. I got to LGA around 7am via yellow cab and left around 5:30pm via Lyft.