Fioriello La Guardia must be turning over in his grave.
The airport named in honor of New York’s most popular mayor ranked last on the 2010 Zagat survey of 30 major fields.
It’s “won” that dubious distinction every year since 2007.
JFK did somewhat better — it came in 26th.
Newark ranked 24.
Travelers at La Guardia last night agreed,
“It’s very bad,” said Julie Goelles, 24, of Austria, who works for her country’s Cultural Affairs department.
“The information is badly displayed.”
Connections between airlines are very difficult, she added.
“There’s only one shuttle bus going to the other terminals,” she said. “And it only takes 30 people.
“Other airports are much cleaner and have better choices of food.”
Matt Zangeneh, 51, a tax manager from Ridegewood, NJ, who had just arrived from Florida, said his biggest complaint about La Guardia is the cost of parking a car.
The fees, he said, are “outrageous.”
Mike Mihm, a 29-year-old actor from Brooklyn, said that when he flew to Miami for Thanksgiving, he arrived at La Guardia early only to find “none of the check-in gates were open yet.”
He complained that “eight of out ten times” he lands at La Guardia, the planes have to waste time circling.
And on the ground, “the bathrooms at La Guardia are pretty dirty,” he said.
“People who should be cleaning them are standing around, hanging out.”
In addition to airports, the survey asked passengers how they feel about airlines.
Nearly half said they try to avoid the ones that charge baggage fees — a practice that carriers rolled out in 2008 to boost their bottom lines as the recession took a toll on the travel industry.
A third of all passengers said they get around baggage fees by taking only what they can carry on.