Marine Air Terminal shuttle gates
83-00 23rd Avenue | LaGuardia Airport | built 1933
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1986
Pan Am builds a prefabricated shuttle terminal beside the landmark in 41 days
Pan Am bought New York Air's shuttle rights in 1986 and found the main terminal's gates too small for its Boeing 727s and Airbus A300s, so it put up new gates at the Marine Air Terminal. The $23 million prefabricated structure next to the 1940 building took 41 days, since flights had to start by October. Days before it was done, politicians tried to stop the work, saying the landmark had been illegally altered.
Source: Wikipedia
- 1986
Pan Am Shuttle flights begin, and the airline courts reluctant taxi drivers
The shuttle to Boston and Washington started from the Marine Air Terminal, about a quarter mile from LaGuardia's other buildings. Cabs had to take a roundabout route and drivers avoided pickups there, so Pan Am ran giveaways for taxi drivers. To win riders from Eastern Air Lines it launched a ferry from Wall Street in August 1987, adding an East 34th Street stop in 1988, and the shuttle became one of Pan Am's few profitable routes.
“…taxi drivers were hesitant to pick up passengers at the terminal, prompting Pan Am to sponsor giveaways for taxi drivers who drove there…”
Source: Wikipedia
- 1991
Delta buys the Pan Am Shuttle and runs the Delta Shuttle from these gates
Delta Air Lines acquired the shuttle from Pan Am in 1991 and flew Boeing 727-200s out of the Marine Air Terminal. It also inherited the ferry to Manhattan, which lost money even with heavy Delta subsidies; the ferry operator was sold to NY Waterway in 1998, and that company ended the service in 2000.
“Delta Air Lines acquired the Pan Am Shuttle from Pan Am in 1991 and started operating the Delta Shuttle from the Marine Air Terminal…”
Source: Wikipedia
- 1999
Delta reopens the shuttle terminal after a $7.5 million renovation
Work began early in 1998 and added a business center and concession stands. When the terminal formally reopened, four out of five passengers using it were business travelers, and roughly 6,000 of LaGuardia's 65,000 daily passengers came through. After the renovation most travelers were routed around the 1940 main building rather than through its rotunda.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2017
Delta moves its shuttle out, and Alaska Airlines and JetBlue take over the gates
As part of the rebuilding of LaGuardia, Delta stopped running its shuttle from the Marine Air Terminal and moved back to Terminal C. Alaska Airlines and JetBlue shifted their flights here from Terminal B. Alaska left LaGuardia altogether in October 2018, while JetBlue flew to Boston and Florida from the terminal and renovated it in a project finished in early 2019.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2026
Spirit Airlines shuts down, leaving the Marine Air Terminal with no airline
Spirit had flown from the terminal since April 2021 and was left as the only airline there when Frontier moved to Terminal B in April 2024. When Spirit abruptly ceased operations, it vacated the gates, and the terminal had no active carrier. The Port Authority had announced in November 2025 that it would replace the passenger facilities here while keeping the 1940 rotunda, removing only the later additions.
Source: Wikipedia
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