statistics<\/a> from FlightAware, a tracking service. The average delay was about an hour, FlightAware showed.<\/p>\nThe Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates LaGuardia, said the airport would remain open, but urged travelers to check with their airlines for updates on the status of their flights. The agency said that it intended to reopen the runway at 6 a.m. on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The Port Authority had expected the airport to be back at full capacity by Friday morning, Kathryn Garcia, the agency\u2019s executive director, said on Thursday. But the agency said it had decided to keep the runway closed on Friday \u201cout of an abundance of caution.\u201d Lights in the shape of a giant X on the tarmac signaled to pilots that the runway was not available.<\/p>\n
Speaking to reporters after the monthly meeting of the Port Authority\u2019s board of commissioners, Ms. Garcia said that the cause of the sinkhole had not been determined.<\/p>\n
LaGuardia, one of the busiest airports in the United States, is perched alongside Flushing Bay. The closed runway usually handles most of the airport\u2019s takeoffs and landings, which total nearly 1,000 a day.<\/p>\n
More than 60 years ago, that runway was extended 2,000 feet to the north on a pile-supported concrete structure over the bay. The sole runway that was operating on Friday, known as 13-31, has an east-west orientation along the waterfront, perpendicular to runway 4-22.<\/p>\n
The Port Authority said crews using ground-penetrating radar had found \u201cpossible areas of concern\u201d on Thursday. After repairing those spots, engineering crews continued to survey the area on Friday, the agency said.<\/p>\n
The same runway was the site of a fatal collision<\/a> two months ago involving an inbound Air Canada Express jet and an airport fire truck. The jet\u2019s two pilots were killed in the crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Memorial Day weekend getaway got off to a rough start at LaGuardia Airport in New York, where…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[66625,3347,94676,70559,9,56,63,65,64,34158],"class_list":["post-241977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-airlines-and-airplanes","tag-airports","tag-delays-transportation","tag-laguardia-airport-queens","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-sinkholes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241977","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=241977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}