I don’t love everything about the new LaGuardia but it’s the way airport designs are going. A lot of it is done to prevent overcrowding at gates and around the

I don’t love everything about the new LaGuardia but it’s the way airport designs are going. A lot of it is done to prevent overcrowding at gates and around the terminal. It takes you longer to get from your car to the plane because the airports (and the airlines) want it to take longer. Sure, it took five minutes to get from the car to the plane at the old LaGuardia but you showed up two hours before your flight so now you’re just sitting in a leaky ceiling glorified closet. And walking through a shopping mall after security is nothing new. Just fly through any non-US airport and the first thing after security is a meandering path thru duty free. Anyway, I think there are certain travelers (myself included) that spend a ton of time on airplanes and we try to minimize our time in airports. That isn’t the general public though.