LaGuardia has three terminals and passengers use two of them. The Marine Air Terminal, known as Terminal A, is described by the airport as currently closed to the public with no commercial flights, so the choice on any boarding pass is between Terminal B and Terminal C. That fact quietly explains a gap in the airport’s own data.
Both operating terminals publish a walk time from security to each group of gates, and Terminal A, a building the same airport calls closed to the public with no commercial flights, publishes none. Between those two tables and a free bus that runs all night, an arrival or a departure at LaGuardia can be timed from figures the airport prints.
Three terminals, two of them open
Seven airlines fly from Terminal B, per LaGuardia, and Terminal C is Delta’s. Terminal A carries no commercial flights at all, and LaGuardia says so plainly on its own page. The walk from security runs 4 to 9 minutes across Terminal B and 3 to 11 minutes across Terminal C, per the headings on their published tables.
| Terminal | Who flies from it, per LaGuardia | Published walk from security | Page last updated |
|---|---|---|---|
| A, the Marine Air Terminal | No commercial flights, closed to the public | None published | 28 July 2026 |
| B | “Home to seven airlines” | 4 to 9 minutes | 14 October 2026 |
| C | Delta Air Lines | 3 to 11 minutes | 14 April 2026 |
How far your gate is, gate group by gate group
The two operating terminals publish the same kind of table, headed “Gates” and “Walk time from security”. The B table splits into two blocks and the C table into four, and the spread inside Terminal C is wider than the spread between the two buildings.
| Terminal | Gates | Walk time from security, per LaGuardia |
|---|---|---|
| B | 11-31 | 4-6 minutes |
| B | 40-59 | 6-9 minutes |
| C | 60-69 | 9-11 minutes |
| C | 70-79 | 5-7 minutes |
| C | 80-89B | 3-5 minutes |
| C | 92-98 | 5-10 minutes |
Reading the table rather than the gate number pays off at Terminal C. Its lowest-numbered block, gates 60-69, is the longest walk in the building at 9 to 11 minutes, while gates 80-89B are the shortest at 3 to 5. A passenger who assumes higher numbers mean a longer walk has it backwards by six minutes.
The more predictable of the two is Terminal B, running 4 to 6 minutes at gates 11-31 and 6 to 9 at gates 40-59 according to LaGuardia. Nothing published at LaGuardia reaches the 10 to 14 minutes its neighbour prints for Terminal 4 gates B42-B55, so the walk here is a smaller part of the plan than it is across the borough.
Terminal A is a 1940 building with no departures
LaGuardia describes Terminal A unusually directly: it “is currently closed to the public” and “there are no commercial” flights, with a private operator based there instead. Anyone holding an old memory of flying from it is working from a floor plan that no longer applies.
What it is instead is the oldest thing at the airport. The Marine Air Terminal “opened in 1940 as the New York terminus for the world’s first transatlantic passenger” service, and the airport highlights its Art Deco design. It also houses a bust of Fiorello Henry La Guardia, the 100th mayor of New York City, in office from 1934 to 1946.
The practical consequence is small but real. A car service told to collect at Terminal A is being sent to a building with no arriving passengers, and the free airport bus still stops there, which makes the mistake easy to complete and slow to notice.
The free bus runs all night, and the waiting lot does not
LaGuardia connects everything with one vehicle and charges nothing for it. In its own words, “all three terminals are connected by a free on-airport bus”, and that bus “connects all terminals, parking lots, rental car facilities, and car pick-up areas”. Its hours are the striking part: “24 hours a day, 7 days a week”.
Beyond the terminals it publishes three more stops: the pre-paid Economy Lot at Parking Lot 7, where a prebooked day is $40, Hangar 7 South, and 94th Street. That last one is the same street as the airport’s Cell Phone Lot, which closes at 11:59 p.m. while the bus serving it keeps running.
The frequency is published too: in October 2026 LaGuardia says the shuttle runs every 15 minutes at peak hours and every 20 minutes off-peak, and it adds live shuttle bus tracking to see where the buses are on the day.
What the terminal pages leave out
No airline list appears on the terminal pages themselves. The B page describes it only as “home to seven airlines” without naming them, Terminal C only as Delta’s, and the full directory sits behind a separate link. For a traveler checking which building a flight leaves from, the terminal page is not the answer.
Set against its neighbour, the walk here is short. JFK publishes 1 to 5 minutes for every gate at its Terminals 1 and 7, 2 to 4 minutes at Terminal 8 gates 12-20, and up to 10 to 14 minutes at Terminal 4 gates B42-B55, so the worst walk at JFK is longer than the worst walk at LaGuardia by three minutes. Neither table carries a security wait, and neither carries a journey time between terminals on the free bus. The live queue board sits on a different page, and it stops at 20 minutes here against 60 at JFK. The walk table measures from security to the gate and covers nothing before the checkpoint.
The pages also age separately, which the site exposes in its own data. In October 2026 the Terminal A page carried a last-modified date of 28 July 2026, Terminal B of 14 October 2026 and Terminal C of 14 April 2026, so the walk figures for Delta’s building had been sitting untouched for roughly six months. Anything read there is worth a second look, in the same way that the onward trip into Manhattan is worth checking against the operator rather than the airport.
One advisory was live on the site while these pages were read, and it belongs with the rest as a dated observation rather than a permanent fact. In September 2026 LaGuardia was carrying a notice that Spirit Airlines had ceased operations, with no Spirit flights arriving or departing, and pointing travelers to spiritrestructuring.com for details.
Using the two tables on the day
- Look up the gate block, not the terminal. At Terminal C the range runs from 3 to 5 minutes at gates 80-89B to 9 to 11 minutes at gates 60-69.
- Do not infer distance from gate number at Terminal C, where the lowest block is the longest walk.
- Treat 11 minutes as the planning ceiling at LaGuardia. No published gate group here exceeds it.
- Never send a car to Terminal A. LaGuardia publishes it as closed to the public with no commercial flights.
- Use the free bus for everything on the airport, including the Economy Lot at Parking Lot 7, and remember it runs 24 hours a day.
- Allow up to 20 minutes for the bus off-peak and 15 at peak, the intervals LaGuardia publishes, and check live tracking on the day.
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Common questions about the LaGuardia terminals
Six answers, each taken from what LaGuardia published in September 2026.
Three buildings, but only two carry passengers. Seven airlines fly from Terminal B and Terminal C is Delta’s. The airport describes Terminal A, the Marine Air Terminal, as currently closed to the public with no commercial flights.
Between 3 and 11 minutes on published figures. At Terminal B it is 4 to 6 minutes at gates 11-31 and 6 to 9 at gates 40-59. At Terminal C it runs from 3 to 5 minutes at gates 80-89B up to 9 to 11 minutes at gates 60-69.
Yes, and it is free. The airport publishes a complimentary on-airport bus connecting all terminals, parking lots, rental car facilities and car pick-up areas, running 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with stops outside every terminal.
No. LaGuardia publishes Terminal A as currently closed to the public, with no commercial flights and a private operator based there. It is the Marine Air Terminal, which opened in 1940 as the New York terminus for the first transatlantic passenger service.
Every 15 minutes at peak hours and every 20 minutes off-peak, per LaGuardia in October 2026. It runs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and live shuttle bus tracking shows where the buses are on the day.
Beyond the terminals, the airport names three stops: the pre-paid Economy Lot at Parking Lot 7, Hangar 7 South, and 94th Street. That last stop shares a street with the Cell Phone Lot, which closes at 11:59 p.m. while the bus keeps running.
The oldest building at LaGuardia is the only one with nowhere to fly.
Related guides
The parking that the free bus serves at $40 a day prebooked, the drive from Westchester and the run into Manhattan are covered separately.
