When Suzette Noble was an executive at Disney, she traveled for work regularly. She always aimed to spend as little time at LaGuardia Airport as possible.
“I flew through often, and it was painful,” she said. “It was a painful experience.”
It was a common sentiment. In 2014, when Joseph R. Biden Jr. was vice president, he compared the airport to the kind found in a “third world country.” The next year, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey announced a multibillion-dollar reconstruction of major sections of the airport. Terminal B reopened in 2020.
During construction, Ms. Noble, 55, often avoided LaGuardia entirely, preferring instead to travel through Kennedy Airport. But when she began interviewing with LaGuardia Gateway Partners, the company that oversees the new Terminal B, she returned to something wholly unexpected.
She first noticed how spacious the terminal seemed, with high ceilings, mosaic tiles and an art installation depicting birds flying between fluffy clouds. Then she saw the now-famous 4,000-gallon water feature. “What a transformation,” she said. “It’s so much more open, so much more welcoming.”
As the chief executive of LaGuardia Gateway Partners, Ms. Noble is rarely far from the airport. She and her husband, Norman Noble, 70, live with her son Raymond Seals, 29, in a two-bedroom apartment in Flushing, Queens. She recently shared how she spends a typical Thursday at the airport.
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