NEW YORK -- It's long been the bane of traveling New Yorkers' lives, and incoming president Joe Biden once described it as "third world."
But while the aviation industry has been decimated by the COVID-19 pandemic, LaGuardia Airport has been quietly undergoing major renovations.
And now, $8 billion later, the new Terminal B is almost finished.
"New Yorkers love to criticize, and they love to hate. I think if you looked at every single passenger survey, LaGuardia was always the worst," says Rick Cotton, executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
"Our challenge was to take it from worst to first," he tells CNN.