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LaGuardia, hardest hit of all NY/Metro airports struggles to get off the ground
As LaGuardia Airport is the closest New York area airport to the water, it sustained the most damage during Hurricane Sandy.
Carriers flying in and out of the airport are currently working at a lower-than-normal schedule due to the ongoing maintenance of these issues which entails navigational aids that are overseen by the FAA.
The FAA’s issued statement on the work says:
"FAA technicians are working 24 hours a day to restore navigational aids at LaGuardia Airport that were damaged by Hurricane Sandy, including Instrument Landing Systems for Runways 4, 13 and 31. The ILS outages currently are not affecting operations at the airport. The ILS approach to Runway 22 is working and is available, but the tower is currently operating arrivals and departures on Runway 31, under visual flight rules, so technicians can safely restore the ILS for Runway 4, which is located at the arrival end of Runway 22. Technicians also are working on restoration or replacement of the ILS for Runways 13 and 31, which were damaged by flooding.
"The tower has the capacity to operate the airport at normal, pre-storm single-runway levels of 32 arrivals and 32 departures per hour, but the airlines currently are operating at only about 60 percent of that level.
"FAA technicians from New England are assisting technicians in New York to help restore all damaged equipment as quickly as possible. Weather is expected to be favorable for visual flight rule operations over the next few days, which do not rely on the use of an ILS."
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