New Delta Airlines terminal at LaGuardia Airport set to open

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The new Delta terminal at LaGuardia Airport was unveiled Tuesday, before flights begin jetting in and out of the hub next week.

The sprawling 105,000 square foot concourse is part of a larger renovation of the airport’s dated terminals and features floor-to-ceiling windows and a pizzeria from famed Brooklyn pie joint Lucali.

Delta flights will begin taking off from seven new gates on Nov. 4 — running 60 flights per day to Boston, Chicago and Washington, DC, the airline said.

The new Terminal C is part of a $4 billion construction plan launched in 2017 to revamp the 50-year-old Terminals C and D, and the final version will include four concourses housing 37 gates.

Delta funded 80 percent of all construction costs while the Port Authority picked up the remainder of the tab.

Speaking at a ribbon cutting ceremony Tuesday, Gov. Cuomo said the opening was a major milestone in transforming the airport into a “global gateway worthy of this state.”

He referenced former Vice President Joe Biden’s infamous 2014 comments that the hub seemed like “some third-world country.”

“In 2014, when Biden said you land in LaGuardia and think you’re a third world country, he was right. We are better than what LaGuardia is,” Cuomo said.

He also thanked the Mets for allowing construction vehicles to utilize nearby CitiField.

“The Mets were actually very generous in letting us use the parking lots for construction vehicles, for surplus parking, for employee parking,” he said.

“They really went out of their way. They didn’t have to do this,” he added.

The developments fold into an $8 billion transformation project of the aging airport, predicted to fully open in 2021.

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