EXTREMELY RARE Runway 22 Takeoff from LaGuardia Airport | Delta A321 

A 22 departure is still on my bucket list. You're so fortunate to complete the cycle at KLGA!

I enjoyed this video. It’s nice to have air travel enthusiasts showing their excitement.

Loved the roar of those CFM-56-5B1's spooling up for takeoff!

What an awesome video! Runway 22 and both sides shown. Thank you! Love that turbofan hum on takeoff. Peter, you are a true aviation enthusiast, wanting some turbulence and diversion to an alternate airport (extra flight!). The airport tram gives a great "intro" to the Orlando area, like a ride at Disney or Universal. I've been there many times. Thank you again.

I'm probably the only person who actually misses the old green windowed terminal, and the waste basket shaped control tower! But it was there that I embarked upon my airline career almost 50 years ago. And yes, taking off on 22 was very rare - in fact, back in the late 70's we needed specific permission from a chief pilot to use it, due to the noise issues. But one evening I had the shortest flight of my airline career there, and the takeoff was from runway 22. It was late evening, around 10pm, and we were operating the weekly ferry flight of a 727 from LGA to JFK. These ferry flights were done to reposition what had been a domestic airplane all week long over to JFK, to fly a few weekend trips to the Caribbean. Of course no passengers were aboard these flights (except for one instance where I had arranged to take a class of fearful flyers on one of the ferries for their "graduation" flight, but that is another story), nor any flight attendants - just the three of us up front. In those days, I was the Flight Engineer. In ops, prior to going out to the airplane, we got word that, due to the relatively high winds out of the south, we would be using 22 and it was duly approved. This promised to be interesting, since with those winds, JFK would be using the 13's as well as their own 22's. It looked like we would takeoff from 22 and merely do a whifferdill to the left to land on 13L at Kennedy. With an off-to-on time of under 5 minutes staring us in the face, I made sure to calculate both the takeoff and the landing data and hand it up forward. It was well that I did so, because although in my logbook this flight took 25 minutes, that was from block to block, the value upon which our pay was based. I did not record the wheels up to wheels down time. But when I fly this flight in Microsoft Flight Simulator, which is completely accurate for such an investigation, it takes just under 4 minutes. That is very likely a world record for a transport category airplane for a cross country flight! Most of those ferry flights involved going nearly out to Montauk to fit into the arrival pattern at JFK, and lasted nearly an hour. Not that night! Even in very small planes, I have never had another flight as short as that.

As I mentioned on your other LGA video recently, I was traveling business on a Sunday morning mid-July 1998 on a DL 727-200 chockablock full LGA-MCO. Early summer morning heat building, I already knew the usual repaving on Runway 13-31 was taking place. Wow, Runway 22 was the active runway for takeoffs. Aircraft taxis out, onto the concrete deck, then onto the runway. Engines spooled up, pushing for takeoff power, brakes released, and we’re rolling!! We rotated just beyond mid-runway. I’ll bet a lot of folks in Jackson Heights were jolted awake that Sunday morning. And that was a first for me!! A takeoff on Runway 22.Great videos Peter!! Keep ‘em rolling! ✈️

This will be interesting, now that I think of it, I never took off on Runway 22 (but have on 4, 31, and 13), nor have I ever seen planes taking off on it from the Grand Central Parkway or the front outside part of the terminals.

Spectacular video Mr. Marcella. Beautiful departure views and the narrative SUPER well explained. A joy to watch your videos.

The Boogie down! I’m waving to you Pete!

Great video and I can say your very well informed about LaGuardia airport. When I was sixteen I started flight lessons at KLGA. The school was at the large hanger building (next to the Marine Air Terminal) seen at 38:39. Our Piper Cherokees were tied down behind the hanger. At the time the area had plenty of room for non-airline operators. Btw I did rwy 22 takeoffs as a way of avoiding the frequent long lines of jets awaiting departure on 13/31. I love the quality of your footage over the Bronx. I was born and raised there. I can make out the buildings and schools in my old neighborhood next to Yankee Stadium. The footage reminds me of my flight school days at KLGA and my Bronx days as a bonus. I currently live a few miles north out of view. I can say that rwy 22 departures have been a rarity going back to the early days of passenger jets. Surrounding residents out up fierce opposition to the increase in noise. They relented to situations where strong winds (relatively uncommon) only allow rwy 22. Finally, a bit of trivia, there was a runway 32. It was a rather bogus one direction STOL only runway beginning at roughly where the old tower was. You can find it on airport charts back in the 60’s and 70’s. It was just a renamed taxiway. We used it as a way of avoiding the jet ground traffic. But few favored it because it was aimed directly at the high point of the bridge to Rikers!

your dad always has a huge smile on his face

Several rarities : Mr. Masella (Peter) junior and Mr. Masella senior; both enthusiastic for air travel; both passionate over elucidating us all on diversified aspects and the nitty-gritty of air travel; the right and left views. As always, a brilliant narration and superb views of the ground beneath and the ATC - pilot dialogues demystified. Another cameo from Peter's remarkable repertoire! Thanks for sharing and Good Luck to both the Masellas!

I started flying as a career in Binghampton NY in 1982 for a commuter that serviced the New York, Boston and Washington airports and went on to fly for American for 36 years. In all the more than a thousand departures flown out of LGA, I can't remember more than a handful off of 22. You got a lucky break! My most vivid memories are being like number 65 in line for departure during thunderstorm season during the PATCO strike.....

Peter. This is one of your best videos yet. Left and right side views and the best runway to take off at at LGA. Thanks again.

Love seeing your Dad again. The duo camera views were fantastic!! Hope you had a great time in Orlando. I love that airport!

Goddamnit I love this channel and your dedication to your videos!

Thanks for sharing that. I love the video and the views of NYC. I've flown out of LGA many times and it was almost always 13 over the stadium. It looks like you were on the GRNCH5 STAR (Standard Terminal ARrival) into MCO, which passes over just to the east of my house near Ocala. I see the planes flying over all day. I'm between the COAXE and GRTNG fixes. Some other things to point out on the descent into MCO, for those interested: At 30:49 you can see Lake Weir and Weirsdale in Marion County, Florida. At 32:17 you can see Lake Apopka in Orange County with the State Road 429 expressway clearly visible. You can barely see it, but the hangars for the Orlando-Apopka airport are visible to the left of the small lake to the left of those six large warehouse-type buildings in the middle of the video. Bob White Field and Orlando North Airpark, two small general aviation airports can also be seen (barely) in the right center of the photo in the right 1/3 between the lake on the right side of the video and Lake Apopka, halfway between the top and bottom of the video, but really hard to make out.

I've flown in and out of LaGuardia many times, usually on 4 or 13. I don't recall ever taking off or landing on 22. Thanks for the video, excellent narration. With all the things you pointed out during the flight, I'm surprised you didn't point out passing over the Brightline Rail tracks (Florida's new Orlando-Miami rail connection) just before the 17L runway threshold.

Amazing! Thanks and take care of your dad.

I travel to NY every week for work and I have never done a 22 departure, usually 13, I was fortunate to finally get a 31 departure last Friday. Great content Peter. Thank you

Thanks, that was fun to watch.

Another great video, spectacular views of the 5 NYC boroughs! You passed right over my house on the north shore of Staten Island!

Nice flying to MCO can't wait to go back on my favorite airline and favorite model A321 i would say this my favorite video 💙

Only time I flew into LGA, we did the 31 expressway visual, which was very cool, took off on 4.

Thanks for the info + video!

Can you post the video from the left side of the plane as a separate video without ATC or narration? Your takeoff was at or near full power which is rarely heard from CFM engines. It sounds amazing.

Nice video. Thanks

Awesome video. Very nostalgic for me growing up departing from LaGuardia as well as JFK and Newark. I don't recall departing RWY 22 but remember arriving at LGA on RWY 22 plenty of times. Always fun seeing nothing but water during the approach and at the last minute seeing the runway and then breathing a sign a relief. Although I no longer live in NY, it was pretty cool seeing NAS Pax River, which is the area I currently reside.

Peter, something else I wanted to add to the routing of your flight…the “land route”. Back in the 1960s working with Northeast Airlines, our B727-200s had life rafts aboard as we flew besides JFK-MIA or JFK-FLL, we flew to Bermuda so life rafts were carried on all 14 727-200s. Now, here’s the kicker, occasionally we’d have a DC9-30 on a Florida route and guess what they didn’t have life rafts. So hence they flew the’”land route”. As I’ve been out of the industry awhile, I’m wondering if DL and AA and others use certain aircraft on the”land route” because they’re not equipped with life rafts for “over water operations”. These aircraft mainly for U.S. transcon operations. Maybe you know ? Be curious to hear. Thanks again my good man!! ✈️

That was a fun video Peter. It's cool to see both sides. I hope you do the return trip this way. Now...I think I'll watch the Whitestone video a few times. 😀

The skyline of Brooklyn looks great!

Fabulous video as always!

My cousin is a F.O. for Jet Blue flying the A320-232. If not catching jumpseat flights out of Charlotte, he commutes to JFK. I'm pretty sure he never lands at La Guardia. Love the video with it's two perspectives.

I love the LGA videos and this was no exception. Looking forward to when I can fly into LGA again. God bless you, sir.

I forgot to add the obvious one in the list of rarities: a rare Runway 22 takeoff from LGA!

This is incredible Peter!!

How do you get multiple camera angles?

Great video Peter! Here’s what could be the ultimate rare LGA approach- VOR RWY 22 Circle to Land RWY 13. I don’t see that one’s chart listed anymore but there’s a RNAV Y RWY 13 that’s similar.

Aha! The rarest operation possible at LGA! Congratulations, and thanks for the "stereo" video. Your dad has great camera personality... Let's see him more often! The second rarest LGA operation is the landing on Runway 13, which I experienced back around 1988, aboard a Midway DC-9-31. Hope you'll be able to video that treat someday. Other New York super-rare operations that one can dream of: JFK 4R and 22L departures (I've seen them, mostly during snow). JFK Runway 31R jet departures (I've seen them, mostly during Runway 31L closures in strong NW winds). EWR Runway 29 departures (Used to be more common in NW winds; I did one aboard a Delta 767-300 to ATL in the 1990s). EWR Runway 11 jet departures and jet landings (I saw them very occasionally back when I worked at EWR in the 1980s). SWF Runway 16 and 34 jet departures and landings (I never saw, but they happen when Runway 9/27 is closed or when there are strong NW winds) ISP Runway 33L jet landings and departures (I was aboard a SWA 737-300 that did a 33L landing on a very strong NW winds day... 5500' runway). ISP Runway 15R jet landings and departures (I guess these must occasionally happen when Runway 6/24 is closed).

Great video Peter! I don’t fly into LGA as much as I used to, being that I have nothing to go to NYC for (other than the flights haha). However, I flew on a flight from West Palm Beach (PBI) to Newark this past summer on United and did the extremely rare landing on Runway 29 at EWR! That’s a cool landing with great Manhattan views, bucket list item for every aviation enthusiast!

Great great great video!!

20:20 The buildings with the small aircraft in the compound next to it is an aviation college that I attended back in the late 80s-early 90s. In the years I spent there, I can only recall one time ever seeing planes take off in that direction.

Thank you. Was wondering why it was so quiet here in the Bronx yesterday...

You've had your dad on your videos enough that we all want to hear how he got obsessed with aviation! (FWIW, my dad was the one who turned me into an avgeek)

I flew out of LGA for 15 years in a 757 and don't recall ever taking off from Runway 22. In all of those years I only landed on 13 twice.

Runway 13 was my departing runway from LGA-BOS back in june on JetBlue the E190 I loved it

I share your enjoyment of flight. When I was flying to St Pete and Tampa to Albany and Stewart I was with my best friend Rafael (RIP-covid) He was a frequent flyer and was not as overjoyed as I was. You fly often and still seem to love it. Good for you.

While turning onto foxtrot after landing, tower seemed MILES away. Well done vid. 👍🏼

Peter, I was at the marina the other day and noticed the configure, the lineup looked odd. I thought about you because I knew you would be able to explain what was going on. Thanks

Peter, as always, another fantastic video! By the way, how do you, capture the ATC communications while you are in the aircraft?

6:55 Glad to see our luggage is well taken care of when it has to be checked. 😢

I flew to Halifax last week and took off from 22 and didn’t realize out rare this is.

7:45 "we can't do this under our own power" - could take this many ways but it's a safety / liability restriction, not lack of ability. The reverse thrust settings to reverse taxi are much higher than forward taxi, which creates a risk of sucking FOD off the ground, as well as potentially hurting ground crew. Much easier to just use a tug. This is especially true when the with engines mounted under the wing and close to the ground (which is most modern aircraft including the 321). But if the pilot needed to reverse taxi in some sort of emergency situation, the aircraft is fully capable.

i recently flew out of EWR and had a nice view of the city on takeoff, the runway had changed twice while I was waiting inside the ancient terminal

Good catch, as this is unusual. I will offer a pro tip for anyone trying to get a 22 departure. Book your flight on Saturday Morning. LGA traffic is much lighter on Saturday, so the port authority almost always closes a runway to work on it during this time. If the runway being worked on is 13-31, you have a very good shot.

Kudos on your knowledge of the procedures at the airports. I'm a private pilot and I admit that I don't know the departures and arrivals. But I don't fly IFR, so I don't care about learning them. Are you a pilot? Do you work in aviation? It would make sense since it's great to have passion for what you do.

Dad!! I haven’t seen him in a decade. Give him my love.

I've done this take off one time I'm glad to have taken off on every available runway at LaGuardia at least once how are you doing Peter?

Frequency 118.975 is are flights that fly just to the east of my house. Long time ago the frequency was 132.050. There's a repeater at Millville Airport that I can hear from my hosue with a scanner.

You must put in a lot of work doing these videos, they are the most entertaining flight videos on RU-vid.

how did you get to listen in to the ATC? great video

MCO Stands for Mickeys Corporates Office 🙂

That seemed like a hard landing Peter from the angle your father took. I just wonder how much pressure the airplane takes to stop completely across the runway and how they judge it

in 1999 I flew on an American Airlines B727 -200 to Miami and we Took off on Runway 22 and No sooner were wheels up , the plane was over the Grand Central Parkway

I wonder which runway the planes will be using today out of Laguardia?

Hi Peter & Dad, I live close to MCO. Would love to meet you guys sometime. Is that possible in the future? Suzie 😀

It would be cool if you know a pilot who would be willing to suction cup a GoPro camera to the cockpit window so you can make a video of the flight into LGA. It doesn't hurt to ask.

@PeterMasella are you a pilot, or ATC?

Essentially, every time there is an accident on runway 31 then 22 is used for both takeoff and landing. When I was flying with my parents on September 21, 1989, the previous day US Air 5050 drifted left after a tire blew out and the pilots attempted to abort the takeoff. It failed and went into Bowry Bay were fortunately only 2 died of the 59 on the aircraft, but the runway was closed for a few days until they could remove the wreckage. So when I was much younger I took off that time from runway 22 because runway 31 was closed from an accident the previous day. Fortunately much fewer accidents today. The last was in 2016 when Mike Pence's plane (a new Eastern Airlines plane when running for VP) crashed on runway 22 - closing that runway for a day. No one was hurt.

Great video, I love it

Why were you moved out of the way for the American Eagle to be put in front of you? It’s one of those flying things I haven’t been able to figure out 😂. At my local airport KSAN, occasionally planes will be moved to C while taxiing to get an expedited takeoff and I’m never able to figure out why

You really would turn down a seat in first class if it wasn't a window? Aisle seat FTW!

Was this filmed on 08/24/24? If so, this was the day I left LGA for ATL after my first visit to NYC.

How do u get too hear ATC.on your phone

Me: Hm..... This channel has been quiet for awhile. finds that RU-vid unsub'd me from this channel. Me: *Whiskey Tango Alpha Foxtrot!?*

this is very scare, my cat is sad

i would too decline a F class upgrade if it wasnt a window

It might be the least common departure, but it's not "extremely rare". Not even rare for that matter. They usually come screaming over my building on Saturdays.

It is not as rare as you might think!

you flew on a 321 not a fan of the 321

VERY IMPRESSIVE VIEW FROM AN AIRPLANE SO COOL

Takeoffs on 22 aren’t rare. But landings on 13 are super rare

I live onq ditmars Blvd and 81 street. 1 block from the airport. On the nice part on the Grand Central parkway, not the other side where it’s all ghetto crap 💩