{"id":238395,"date":"2026-05-20T19:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T19:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/238395\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T19:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T19:33:09","slug":"track-delays-at-laguardia-airport-amid-runway-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/238395\/","title":{"rendered":"Track delays at LaGuardia Airport amid runway shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/better.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">NEW YORK &#8211; A sinkhole near a runway at LaGuardia Airport caused delays and cancellations Wednesday after crews discovered the issue during a routine inspection, officials said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">According to FlightAware, LaGuardia Airport was experiencing arrival delays for airborne aircraft averaging 35 minutes and increasing.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said the sinkhole was identified around 11 a.m. near Runway 4\/22 during the airport\u2019s daily morning airfield inspection.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/sinhole-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The runway was immediately shut down while emergency construction and engineering crews worked to determine the cause and make repairs, according to the agency.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">&#8220;The Port Authority is in close communication with airlines and airport partners and will continue providing updates as conditions evolve,&#8221; the agency said in a statement posted on X.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Travelers were urged to check directly with their airlines for updated flight information as delays and cancellations mounted. Officials said forecast thunderstorms later Wednesday could worsen disruptions.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p> See flight delays, cancellation tracker <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Check the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/flight-delays\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">status<\/a> of each airport below:<\/p>\n<p> LaGuardia Airport status\u00a0 More information from FlightAware can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flightaware.com\/live\/airport\/KLGA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>. Newark Airport\u00a0status More information from FlightAware can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flightaware.com\/live\/airport\/KEWR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>. JFK Airport\u00a0status More information from FlightAware can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flightaware.com\/live\/airport\/KJFK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This report is based on information from LaGuardia Airport.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/lifestyle\/travel\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Travel<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/science\/air-space\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Air and Space<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article NEW YORK &#8211; A sinkhole near a runway at LaGuardia Airport caused delays and cancellations Wednesday after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[60326,232,9,24,12,63,122,124,123,6781,956],"class_list":["post-238395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-air-space","tag-lifestyle","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-science","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238395","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=238395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}