LGA Traffic Management Tips

Departures:

LGA has an extremely limited number of gates and ramp space, airport easily reaches "grid lock" on the taxiways.

Heavy jet departures necessitate additional spacing for arrivals when landing RWY 22 and departing RWY 31, or landing RWY 13 and departing RWY 4.

It is very common to have short departure stops due to the complexity of the departure position.

Rwy 22 is rarely used for departures due to noise abatement restrictions. The only exception is when there are extremely high south winds forcing an "up and down" RWY 22 operation.

Arrivals:

If LGA traffic is in a holding posture, ZBW can hold LGA arrivals with minimal impact, and recovery time is negligible.

Monitor flow of LGA arrivals from ZDC to prevent excessive airborne holding. (ZDC has a difficult time maintaining an efficient flow when in a holding posture)

When weather and winds force JFK to utilize the ILS RWY13L approach, LGA must change to an ILS RWY13 approach. In this runway configuration, due to wake turbulence, LGA must use extra spacing between arrivals to allow for LGA heavy jet departures. This will decrease the arrival acceptance rate at LGA.

When implementing a program for LGA, remember that there are not any departures, destined LGA, from points west of DEN.