{"id":178537,"date":"2026-03-28T23:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T23:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/178537\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T23:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T23:50:10","slug":"long-lines-at-laguardia-airport-continue-on-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/178537\/","title":{"rendered":"Long lines at LaGuardia Airport continue on Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lines<\/a> at LaGuardia Airport were not as long as they had been in the past few days, though they stretched well beyond the airline check-in area Friday.<\/p>\n

Some travelers were still experiencing delays, due in part to the shortage of TSA workers<\/a> who\u2019ve called out or quit during the partial shutdown.<\/p>\n

What You Need To Know<\/p>\n

Lines at LaGuardia Airport were not as long as they had been in the past few days, though they stretched well beyond the airline check-in area Friday
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Longer-than-usual lines at LaGuardia and other area airports could be a reality for a few more weeks after the U.S. House of Representatives failed to pass a funding agreement that the Senate passed unanimously
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Lawmakers are now leaving town for a two-week recess, likely extending the standoff into mid-April
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LaGuardia has recorded nearly 400 delays and over 80 cancellations at the airport just Friday<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were here, I think it would have been seven hours ahead of time, but as soon as we got in our Uber, we got a text saying our flight had been delayed,\u201d said Juli Watkins. \u201cThen, we got another one saying it had been delayed even further and offered us rebooking options.\u201d<\/p>\n

Longer-than-usual lines at LaGuardia and other area airports could be a reality for a few more weeks after the U.S. House of Representatives failed to pass a funding agreement<\/a> that the Senate passed unanimously.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re on the phone with our company trying to get them to reschedule our flight,\u201d said Harley Perez, after discovering that his flight had been canceled Friday.<\/p>\n

Lawmakers are now leaving town for a two-week recess<\/a>, likely extending the standoff into mid-April.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo we rebooked for one that leaves at 4:55 today,\u201d Watkins said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re actually going to get home a little bit earlier, assuming we can get through TSA quickly,\u201d said Watkins\u2019 traveling companion, Lynn Zimmerman.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been watching,\u201d Zimmerman said when asked if she saw the long lines inside the airport. \u201cLast time we saw it was about a two-hour wait.\u201d<\/p>\n

LaGuardia<\/a> has recorded nearly 400 delays and over 80 cancellations at the airport just Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lines at LaGuardia Airport were not as long as they had been in the past few days, though…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[109,25,9,24,12,26,63,87,122,124,123,27],"class_list":["post-178537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-app-local-state-politics","tag-app-top-stories","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nia-clark","tag-nyc","tag-politics","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}